OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1719, 9 April 1913, Page 4

OBITUARY

The "Tablet" (London) of February 22 stateside deeply regret to record tlio sudden, and''untimely'" death of that' excellent Catholic and exceptionally able public servant, Jlr. Georgo Bernard Milbank Coore. .He was walking across St. James's Park, on his way to the Education Office at Whitehall, when he' .was seen to fall. He was taken to St. George's Hospital, where it was found that he was dead. 'Mr. Coore was'educated at Bath College and at Corpus Christi, Oxford, of which college ho was a scholar. In October, 180J-, Mr. Cooro entered the Charity Commission as temporary assistant-commissioner, and in October, 1892. he was transferred to tho Board of Education, South Kensington, lie.was appointed an ussistant-sccretary-on the legal side of the board in February, .1907, and was made an assistant secretary in the elementary schools branch of tho Board ,of Education in, January, 1910. ' A convert to the Catholic Churcn, ho married in 1891 a daughter of General Kchemeling, of tho Prussian Army. Ho leaves a family—one son and four daugh-' ters. His son, a. boy of great promise, is now on a voyage round the world as a midshipman on board 11.11.5. New Zealand.