OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 4 February 1911, Page 15

OBITUARY.

The last English mail brings news of the deaths of the following:— The Rev. Edward Bickcrsteili Ottley, Canon-Residentiary of Rochester, died at' Seaford 011 December 15, at the age of 58. Among: his ancestors and 1 datives on the maternal side were Edward Biekcrsieth, of Dalton, a hyinn writer, well known in the days of the Clapham Sect; Henry Biekersteth,- a distinguished lawyer,- wh'.i, in his youthful days, was a Senior Wrang-. ler, and died Mister of the Rolls; Robert Bickersteth, liishop . of ltipoh, and Edward Bickersteth, Dean of Lichfield,.' were his uncles, and E. If. Biekersteih, Bishop of Exeter, and author of the wellknoivn hymn, '.'Peace, Perfect Peace,' was also a relative. Three of his brothers are clergymen, his eldest brother being Canon 11. Ottley, lion, secretary to the Imperial. Sunday Alliance, and his oilier brothers are the Rev. Robert L. Ottley, Regius Professor 'of Pastoral Theology, at Oxford, the Rev. Herbert Ottley, of Calcutta, and Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Ottley. Deceased entered JCeblc College, Oxford, in 1870. He was ordained deacon' in 1876, by Bishop Ilughes, of St. Asaph, and priest in 187 S. In the same year he became curate to, the Rev.. Stephen Gladstone, at Hawaruen. During his curacy at Hawarden he won the friendship of Mr. "W. E. Gladstone. Ottley was a High Churchman and a'Liberal, and the great statesman and he had • much in common. It was Gladstone.who iu 1881 appointed him to' Quebec Chapel, ■and here his ability and spiritual power were at once recognised. 111 1905, the Bishop of London presented him with a prebend stall in St.' Paul's Cathedral, and 111 1007 110 was nominated by the lord Chancellor to a canonry at Rochester Cathedral. JIo was a man of large ideas and of great'energy, until his health gave way, as it did soon after his appointment to Rochester. His resignation of the canonry .was decided 011 when death overtook him. Sir Peter Spokes (80), of Regent's Park, formerly a chemist ,at Reading, where he played a prominent part in public life, twice becoming Mayor. Ho was a Cougrcgationalist. llou.'Mrs. Leigh, wife of the Dean of Hereford. She was the younger daughter of Fanny Kemble, the actress. Jlr. John Martineau, J.P. (75), of Farnborough, who was one of the pupils who lived and read with Charles Kingsley at Eversley. An unbending individualist, be was a great supporter of tlio Charity Organisation Socicty, and did much i'or the East End Emigration Kami, lie wrote biographies of Sir Baltic Fierc and the Duke 0t Newcastle. Dr. James Edward Pollock (03), a consumption specialist, who had been Physician Extraordinary to Queen Victoria. Lady. Meux, the widow of Sir Henry Meux. One of the richest .women iu England, she lived at the old house at Theobalds, the main entrance to the grounds of which consists of old Teinplo Bar, given to Sir Henry Meux by the City Corporation, .and carefully re-erected, every , stone in'its' proper, place. '