OBITUARY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1162, 19 April 1872, Page 2

OBITUARY.

The recent deaths" only embrace a few well-known names. -The Earl of Moray, who died suddenly, took little or 'no part in public affairs. Sir Thomas Phillips was r a celebrated bdok-collefcjtor at Cheltenham, where he possessed an enormous mansion, as well as one in Worcestershire. Both "these houses -were bo full -fronv top.to bottom oi : books i that- it -was -difficult to find a jchair. to sit down npon, and visi-A tors •haye'.'-beejtt Into 'the .Jion»e-^ keeper's' rbo^ y a^ Mngthe'6nly r on© Ifr" 9 © from litter. His books do not, Beem to m have brought hiqvmuch happiness, for he left all his bestcoll^ctabiEto his youngest daughter, on- cj;tidit^d*that his eldest . daughter or TiCT^usoand should never .enter the iihouser-a pleasant: 'frame; of mind for an old . gentleman to dielin. General Chesbey was aot so well-known by the present j generation^ as he was 20 veaw agOj.when'he.ac^uwdior himself a name in connection witfi 1 the 'Euphrates Valley as. a roufce to'lhaia. But his exertions met jwith. no Tesponse; and, he retired from public life, like, many other clever man,, disappointed' and disgusted. Mr Joseph, Pease, of Darlington, ,was a.celebrated quaker and ironmaster, and as 'well known in ,hi 3 . is ' in London;' He was 5 -thW> driginator, with Geo.Stephensori,: of the first Darlington Railway, and was the pioneer- in the-North of aU kinds of manufacturing improvements, besides being a very good man. DrDay waa formerly Chandos Professor of^ Medicine^in^.&e^niversity of St. Andrew's, and^ofHatfe^ears was the 'writer of scientific articles in 'the^jlt^mlasian. Mr Chorley- was well-known as the musical critic., of, thbAthenminy. He had numbers of friends/ and—for a critic very, much regretted. ,The,remaining name iOnithe list, is* that of John ■Sobieski Coynt d'Alb^anei, -who ..claimed for himself, and with good reason,' thaifhe was a descendantrof the chevalier Stewart, and but fo ! r iti ? a\S!ident 6f'fbrtnne, : fiight have, been now King of England.