OBITUARY.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1254, 14 March 1878, Page 3

OBITUARY.

The deaths are announced of Drs. Duff and Doran, and Sir E. Creasy. We take the following notices of their lives and writings from “ Men of the Time ”

ÜB. DOEAK. Doran, John, Ph. D., F.S.A., of an oH family from Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland, born in 1807, resided', in l early life, in France and G[crfqany,' and began his literary career with a melodrama produced at the Surrey Theatre when ho was*flfteen years of age Ho was then engaged on the “ Literary Chronicle,” till it was purchased by Mr John Sterling and his friends. In 1835 he published his “ History and Antiquities of the Town and Borough of Reading, in Berkshire,” and for eleven years acted as editor of a weekly London newspaper. In 1850 appeared his “ Filia Dolorosa ■ Memoirs of Duchess of Angouleme,” a fyork which bears Mrs Romorio naiqi),;ahe having commenced it just before her last illness. In 1853 was published his edition of Anthon’s '‘Anabasis of Xenophon;” and in 1354, his “Life of Dr. Y'oung,” attached to an edition of his poems. “Table Traits, and Something on Them,” appeared in 1854 ; “ Habit? and'Men.” and “Lives of the Queens of t(e IqoUijo of Hanover,” in 1855; “ Loiighjs and their Days,” in Djpd; ” ■■■• Monarchs retired from business, '' n in 1857; “History of Court Fools,” in 1858 ; “ Hew Pictures and Old Panels,” in 1859; “The Last Journals of Horace Walpole,” in 1859 (edited); “ Lives of the Princes of Wales,” in I 860; “A Memoir of Queen Adelaide,’’and “Theßentley Ballads” (edited), including original poems by the editor, in 1861; “ Their Majesties 1 Servants,” a history ox the-English Stage, in 1863 ; and ■‘Saints and Sinners,” in 1868. At various periods, during many years, Dr. Doran has been acting editor of the “ Athenumm.” From the preface to the Kimbolton papers, ! edited by the Duke of,Manchester, it appear*!

that Dr. Doran assisted in preparing them for the press ; and he was a constant contributor to the leading reviews and magazines of the day. DR DUFF. Duff, the Rev. Alexander, D.D., L.L.D., whose name is identified with the missionary cause in India, born near Pitlochry, Perthshire, in 1806, studied at the University of St. Andrews, where he graduated in honors; and at college was remarkable for the great interest which he displayed in the cause of missions to heathen lands. Early in 1829 the oifer was made to him to undertake the important office of the first, missionary to India from the Established Church of Scotland, and having accepted it, ho was ordained by the Presbytery of Edinburgh, and sailed from Portsmouth for India about the middle of October, in the Lady Holland East Tndiaman, which was wrecked on Dassin Island, near the Cape of Good Hope, February 13th, 1830 ; but the Rev. A. Duff eventually reached his destination in safety. The institution which he founded there in 1830 has long been the largest in India, and at this establishment, in addition to elementary instruction, the higher branches of literature, science, philosophy, and Christian theology are taught. In 1843 he joined that section of the clergy which seceded from the Church of Scotland, and by his untiring energy and zeal, and personal influence, was enabled to carry on successfully the missionary work at Calcutta, in connection with the Free Church. On revisiting his native land for the first time in 1836, his efforts to diffuse a missionary spirit throughout the churches were unremitting. Having returned to Scotland a second time in 1850, he was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church in 1851, was examined before a Committee of the House of Lords on Indian affairs in 1853, and contributed valuable materials for the famous Education Despatch of 1854. He has written, among other works, “ New Era for the English Language and Literature in India,” published at Edinburgh in 1837 ; “ India and India Missions,” in 1839, containing the substance of his addresses on different occasions, both from the platform and the pulpit, in England and Scotland, on the subject of India Missions ; “ Missions the chief end of the Christian Church;” the “Qualifications, Duties, and Trials of an Indian Missionary,” in 1839 ; “ Letters on the Indian Rebellion,” in 1858; various articles in the “ Calcutta Review,” of which he was at its commencement, and for several years, editor ; and many pamphlets on miscellaneous subjects. Dr. Duff, in consequence of ill-health, was constrained to quit India in December, 1863, after more than thirty years of missionary labor. After his return he was appointed Convener or Permanent President of the Foreign Missions Committee of the Free Church. As the result of his suggestion and earnest pleading, a new professorship of evangelistic theology was established by the General Assembly in its theological colleges, while, through his personal exertions, the. sum of £IO,OOO was raised and invested for its endowment. Having been unanimously called by the church at large to accept the first appointment to the new collegiate chair, he responded to the call on the express condition that the salary attached to the office should be applied to another object of a missionary character, and that “ any services which he could render should be purely and absolutely gratuitous.” SIR EDWD. CBEAST. Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd, M.A., son of the late Mr Edward Hill Creasy, auctioneer, of Brighton, and founder and part proprietor of the “ Brighton Gazette,” born at Bexley, in Kent, 1812, was educated on the foundation at Eton, where he obtained in 1831 the Newcastle scholarship, and whence he was elected Scholar of King’s College, Cambridge, in 1832, and Fellow of the same College in 1834. He was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1837, was for several years a member of the Home circuit, was appointed Professor of Modern and Ancient History in the University of London in 1840, and held that post for several years. His principal work, “ The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World,” first published in 1851, has gone through several editions. He is also the author of the “ Rise and Progress of the British Constitution,” first published in 1834 ; of a “ History of the Ottoman Turks;” of a volume of “Biographies of eminent Etonians,” and of an “ Historical and Critical Account of the several Invasions of England.” In 1860 Mr Creasey was appointed to the Chief Justiceship of Ceylon, and received the honor of knighthood. In 1869 he returned to this country for a year, in consequence of indisposition. His latest works are, a “ History of England,” vols. 1 and 2, 1869-70, to be extended to 5 vols.; and “ The Old Love and the New; a Novel,” 1870, and V The Imperial and Colonial Constitutions of the Britannic Empire, including Indian Institutions,” 1872,