OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 12

OBITUARY.

Tho following obituary notices appear in tho latest English papers :—

William Maris, the well-known. Dutch landscape painter'died at The Hague, at the age of sixty-seven years. Ho was the youngest of three brothers, all painters, who by their outstanding abilities have sheil a lustre on modern Dutch art. The grandfather-of this■ interesting group'of ■artists is said to havo been a Bohemian soldier who came from Prague during the Napoleonic wars, settled in 1 Holland, married a Dutch wife, and brought up. a. family.-. Ono of his sons became a printer.- He was the father of the threo painters, and froni their infancy he encouraged the hoys to draw., James, or Jacobus,. Maris, was born in 1837, Mat,%,w iivlSiMiiJind.William in 1843. James'died in 1899; who mado ' his libmo.in.London 1 , still survives. The 'dej; ceased William Maris was par excellence the painter of the juicy meadows of his native land, and his life was quiet and uneventful. He was twenty-one years of age when he first- publicly exhibited pictures at The Hague.

Dr. John Poile (73), Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. A student contemporary with Sidgwick and .Tebb, Kβ camo into prominence when, in 18G9, his "Introduction to Greek and Latin. Etymology" was published. Although, later, further knowledge upset many of his conclusions, he recognised that in philology and other new sciences finality had not been attained. He used .sometimes-to say, "When I have ceased to chnige my mind:.l shall no longer .lie. fitted to lecture." Ho was tbV first lay head of his college. . •

Mr. John Willis Clark (77), who had just resigned the post of Registrar of Cambridge •University. He was the first superintendent of the Museum of Zobloey, which undor - his regime came to the first rank of provincial, museums. A prolific writer on subjects topographical, biographical, bibliographiral, and antiquarian,, he was appointed.to the Kegistrary in, 1801, and held the jnst until his retirement. Mr. W. :H. Clark, recently anpointed Member for Commerce on. Hip Executive Council of the Viceroy of India,•is his son..

Mr. F..L. Pogson, of Brighton, who died while ascending Mont Blanc. The translator of several French and German philosophical'works, including Eucken's "Life of-tho Spirit" , and Bergsen's "Time and Free Will," he was encaged latterly in translating a book by Professor Harnack. ■ ■Sir Joseph Thomas ' Firbank (60), formerly Unionist M.P. for East HnlL Major-General. Henry ..Terrick Fitzhugh (84), of Hassocks, who saw active service in the Crimean War. ,