BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 10

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

LORD HANWORTH.

Lord Hanworth was born in 1861----and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1885 and became a King's Counsel in 1905. From 1910 to 1923 he was a member of the House of Commons, representing Warwick and Leamington in the Conservative interests and from 1917 to 1919 was Controller of the Department of Foreign Trade. For the next three years he was Solicitor-Gene-ral and in 1922 was for a short time Attorney-General. He is a trustee of the British Museum. In 1923 he was appointed Master of the Rolls, a position from which he recently retired. He was created a baron in 1926 and has been honoured by various legal societies. LORD TRENCHARD. Lord Trenchard retired from the post of Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and has had a distinguished career. He was born in 1873 and will always be remembered as the man who made the Royal Air Force. From 1918 he was Chief of the Air Staff, becoming Air Marshal in the first year after the Great War and Air Chief Marshal three years later. In 1930 he was raised to the peerage. He was commonly reported to have been offered the post of Governor-General of New Zealand, and, according to a London paper, accepted the appointment, only to change his mind later. He became Chief of Scotland Yard in 1931. SIR ARTHUR BENN. Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, first baronet, was born in 1858 and received his early education at Clifton College. Later he studied abroad and then returned to become a student of the Inner Temple. He lived for some time in Canada, held a commission in the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery, bul returned to England at the age of forty-four and was elected to the House of Commons in .1910, remaining there for nineteen years. He was also a member of the London County Council for four years and has been president of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce. SIR GOMER BERRY. J Sir (James)' Corner Berry, who was born in 1883. is the wcll-kncfn newspaper proprietor who acquired, with his brother William, many important

. undertakings. The brothers obtained - a controlling interest in the "Financial Times," "The Graphic," Cassell's , publishing firm, Kelly's Directories, • and groups of newspapers, and now • controls the largest newspaper pro- ! prietary in the world. In .192-1 the : Bcrrys bought most of the Hulton pub- • locations, and they control newspapers ' in Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, New- ■ castle, Bristol, Aberdeen, and CardjfT. • They also acquired an interest in the London "Daily Telegraph." Part of , Ihe extension of their activities was , | clue to keen rivalry with the Rothcr- ■ j mere, group. • , j SIR lAN MACPHERSON. , Sir lan Macpherson. who was born fifty-five years ago, has been a Privy | Councillor since the last year of the Great War and was created a baronet ] two years ago. It was not long after he left the university that he entered! Parliament, and soon received recog- j nition. His first Parliamentary work] was as private secretary to the Sec- { retary for War, and later he himself became Under-Secretary for War, serv-1 ing under Lord Kitchener and Mr. Lloyd George during the whole period of the Great War. From 1918, for two years, he was Chief Secretary for Ireland, and made history by introducing the last of the Home Rule Bills. During the turbulent days of the Irish i revolution he was in considerable danger of assassination, and a plot to kidnap him was only frustrated at the last moment. But for the turn of polii tical fortunes of the Liberal Party, Mr. Macpherson would probably have been a Governor of one of the Dominions. !He was one of the Liberals to join the Government in 1931. DE. HETHERINGTON. Dr. H. J. Hetherington has been vicechancellor of Liverpool University since 1927 and previously held a chair at University College, Cardiff, and was principal of University College, Exe- ; ter. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insur- ■ ance of 1930-32 and acted h. a consul- . tative capacity for the Glasgow Central Unemployment Exchange while he • was at Glasgow University. He is also a Trustee of the Carnegie Trust. professor harden. Professor Harden was born seventy years ago and took his doctor's degree in science at Manchester University. He was previously head of the Biochemical Department of Lister Institute. He married Georgina Sydney, a daughter of Mr. C. Wynyard Bridge, of Christchurch, New Zealand. DR. PERCY BUCK. Dr. Percy Buck is the famous Professor of Music at London University and writer on musical subjects. He took his music degree at Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. MR. H. MILFORD Mr. Humphrey Milford is the wellknown head of the publishing firm that bears his name and has been publisher to the University of Oxford since 1913. He is a graduate of Oxford, having taken his M.A. with a First Class in Classical Moderations and tho Final School. He worked for a time with the Clarendon Press and edited various volumes issued in the Oxford poets. PROFESSOR ZIMMERN. Professor Alfred Zimmern is the authority on international relations, having held a chair at Oxford University for the last five years. Previously he was at the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, and at Cornell University, U.S.A., returning to Europe lo be deputy-director of the League of (Nations Institute of International Cooperation and later director of the Geneva School of International Studies. SIR THOMAS CATTO. Sir Thomas Catto, a partner in the firm of Morgan Grenfell and Co., London, and a director of Andrew Yule and Co., Calcutta, is deputy-chairman of the Mercantile Bank of India, Lon- j don. ! MISS PANKHURST. Miss Christabcl Pankhurst is a daughter of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the famous leader in the campaign for votes for women, and was herself active in the movement for women's suffrage. She is also the author of various books. MISS MYRA IIESS. Miss Myra Hess is the celebrated British pianist and has given recitals in many lands. SIR PHILIP CIIETWODE. Field-Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode was Chief of the Indian General Staff from 1928 to 1930 and since that date has been Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India. He was made a majorgeneral in 1916 and served in the successful Palestine campaign. From 1922 to 1923 he was Adjutant-General and for four years thereafter was in command at Aldershot. MAJOR-GENERAL FREYBERG. Major-General B. C. Freyberg's name is familiar to every New Zealander for his sensational war-time exploits, his Victoria Cross and his channel swim which failed within a few hundred yards of the English shore because of the effect of war wounds on the then Colonel of Guards. MajorGeneral Freyberg served with the Royal Naval Division at Antwerp, then joined the Hood Battalion at the Dardanelles and won the D.S.O. for a remarkable night swim to light flares on the beaches and mislead the enemy. At the age of twenty-eight he was a brigadier of the 29th Division and after the war he continued his career in the army. He holds two bars to his D.5.0., as well as the V.C. and C.M.G., and has been in the Grenadier Guards and at the War Office as General Staff Officer First Grade.