MONTHLY OBITUARY LIST.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIIL, Issue 270, 21 November 1878, Page 2

MON THLY OBITUARY LIST.

The following notices of pnjili'c men wtjose deaths are reported by the Jsah Francisco mail are from Men b/ the 1 ime : — CjisV.msfobd (Lord), The Right Hon. Frederick Thesiger, only surviving son of the late Charles Thesiger, Esq., Collector of Customs in the island of St. Vincent, and nephew of Captain Sir Frederick Thesiger (who was A.D.C. to ISelson at Copenhagen), born in London in 1794, entered tho Royal Navy as a midshipman at an early age, and served at Copenhagen in 1807. He quitted the service after the destruction of his father's property in the West Indies, and haviug entered as a student in Gray's Inn, was called to the bar in 1818. For some years he went, the Home circuit, of which he became the leader. He was made a King's Counsel in 1834, and having in 1840 been returned to Parliament in the Conservative interest fot Woodstock, was appointed Solicitor General by Sir R. Peel in 1844, and succeeded, in 1845, to the Attorney Generalship, which he held till the retirement of the Peel administration in 1846. This post he resumed under Lord Derby's first administration in 1852. He represented Abingdon in the House of Commons from 1844 to 1852, and Stamford from 1852 till his elevation to the Lord Chanceliorship, with a Peerage, in Lord Derby's second administration in 1858. Lord Chelmsford, who retired 'with his colleagues in 1859, was reappointed Lord Chancellor in Lord Derby's third administration, July 9, 1866, and held that exalted position till Feb., 1868. Grant, Sir Francis, P.R.A., the fourth son of the late Francis Grant, Esq., of Kilgraston, Perthshire, and brother of Gen. Sit* J. Hope Grant, G.C.8., born at Edinburgh in 1803, first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1834; was elected an Associate in 1842, and R.A. in 1851. Of the many famous beauties whose charms have lent additional attraction to his canvas, are the Marchioness of Waterford, the Ladies Howard, Lady Rodney, Mrs Beauclerk, &c, and amongst the celebrated men whom he has painted may be mentioned Lord Macaulay, Mr Disraeli, Mr Lockbart, Sir Edwin Landseer, Lords Hardinge, Gough, Campbell, Derby, Palmerston, Clyde, Russell, Stanley, and his brother Sir j. 11. Grant. Some of Mr Grant's earlier pictures belonged to a class which he hns since ceased to cultivate; such as the " Meet of his Majesty's Stag-hounds," painted in 1837 for the late Earl bf Chesterfield, containing forty-six portraits of celebrated sportsmen. It attracted much attention, and was engraved, and was followed by 'Meltou Hunt," purchased by the Duke of Wellington, and also engraved. Mr Grant was appointed President of the Royal Academy, as successor to Sir Charles Eastlake, March 6, 1866, and shortly afterwards received the honour of knighthood. The University of Oxford conferred upon hiin the honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1870. Macdonald, John Sandfield, Q.C, a Canadian stateman, born in St. Raphael, Glengarry County, Upper Canada, Dec. 12, 1812. He was educated under Dr. Urquhart, of Cornwall, an eminent teacher, was articled to Judge Mc'Lean in 1835, and was called to the bar in 1 840. He was elected to the provincial parliament in 1841, and continued tbere till the organisation of the Dominion, being Speaker of Parliament from 1852 to 1854. He was Solicitor-General from 1849 to 1851. and Attorney-Geueral in 1858. Uuder the new organization since 1867 he has been Attorney-General of the Province of Ontario.