OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2972, 9 January 1917, Page 5

OBITUARY

SIR FREDERICK BORDEN. Ottawa, January 7. -■ Sir Frederiok Bordon, an es-Minisier for Militia and Defence,: is dead.—Reu-j ■; ter '■ ■■■•■"■'' ■ ' ' ' "-- ■ ■ [Sir Frederick Borden, K.C.M.G., Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, 8.A., M.D., D.0.L., LL.D., P.O. (Canada), was born on May 14. 1847, and educated at the Uni> versity of King's College, 'Wmdsor, Nova Scotia, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Hβ was first elected .to the Canadian House of Commons in 1874. From 1896 to 1911 he was Minister for Militia and Defence.] FREDERICK SELOUS. London, January 7. Mr. Frederick Scions, the big-game hunter, was killed in action in East Africt. , [Frederick Cmirteney Selous was born in London in December, 1851. He was . of mixed French and English parent--, ago on the father's side and Scotch and English on tbe mother's. He left England for Soutli Africa, and from that timo until 1890 travelled continually all over South Central Africa, matin" a living by elepbant hunting and the collecting of specimens of natural history. In IS9O ho took service un- ■ der tno British South African Company, and acted as sruide to tho Pioneer "Expedition to Mashonaland. Hβ returned to England in 1892, but went back the followine; year to take part in the Matnbelo War. After another visit to England he went back again to Matabeleland. _He served dunnpe the present war with the Legion of Frontiersmen in East Africa. Hβ lias written several books on travel.]