OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1678, 19 February 1913, Page 7

OBITUARY.

LORD MACNAGHTEN. v '■'.■' By lilegraph- D rcbs ABsoclatton-Oopyrls,M: : '• . ''• London, February 17. \• ■ Lord.Macnogliten, a Lord of Appeal'in Ordinary,,is dead. ■ ' ■ ■'• ' '..-. Lord Mttcnaßliten was born . in l, iB3O (second son ut Sir Edmund Macnaghten,of Dundarave, County Antrim, Ireland), and educated at Trinity College, Cam-, bridge (M.A.)„of which lio was.Univprfity, Scholar in, 1851'. He became a barrister ond lyncher nt Lincoln's Inn, rind later '!' took silk. In. 1880.he entered the Houco , of Commons us Conservative member for '■' County Antrim, _ In 1887 ho wns made a " Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, with a scat in. the House of' Lords. In the athlctio - world, Lord Macnaghten was jn'his earlier•:''• days somewhat prominent. Ho ' in tho University. boat root, won the ■ 'Colquhoun Sculls for Cambridge; in :1851,.'..', and tho Diamond Sculls at Henley in''; 1852. ■" ■' ■ ;,;i ? .-.;,';/■'• LOUIS BECKE, NOVELIST. ''IS. '"•' (Rec. February 18, IMS;p.m.) :■,.'' Sydney, February 18. Louis Bocko, tho novelist, is dead. I : ',; Georgo Louis Becke, F.R.GiS., author <t>i ' tho "Jolasco. Brig," "Hodman; tho Boc.t- ' 6teerer," and other entertaining stories "of .: adventure, was born at Port Macquarle;.' N.S.W., in 1818, and from 1870 till 1893, followed tho business of. trader and super-, cargo'in tho South.Sea Islands, , His ei-' ; periences in those avocations supplied the'-,., basis and colour for those tales-of tho; South Seas which have brought him into > noto as on author,; ■' ~'. ,-'\ '."., .'\