OBITUARY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 7

OBITUARY

LORD MACNAGHTBN. LONDON, February 17. Lord Maonaghten, a Lord of Aj> peal in Ordinary, is dead. Lord Maonaghten was a life peer. Born in 1830, second son of Sir Edmund Maonaghten, of Dundaravo, County Antrim. Ireland, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A.),of which he was University Scholar in 1851. Mo became a barrister and bencher at Lincoln's Inn, and later took silk. In 1880 he entered the Mouse of Commons as Conservative member for County Antrim. In 1887 ho was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, with a seat in the House of Lords. In the athletic world. Lord Maonaghten was in his earlier days somewhat prominent. He rowed twics in the University boat race, won ths Colquhoun Sculls for Cambridge in 1851, and the Diamond Sculls at Henley in 1852. The heir to the baronetcy is Lord Macnaghten's son, the Hon. B. O. Mao' naghten. , LOUIS BECKE, NOVELIST. (Received February 18, 9.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, February’ 18. . The death is announced of Mr Louit Bocke, the novelist; aged fifty-six years. George Louis Becke was born at Tort Macquarie, Now South Wales, in 1857. He was for six months at Fort street School, Sydney. Me was some time » trader, pilot, and recruiter for the Kanaka labour trade in the Pacific. He ha* written about 30 books, chiefly South Seas stories, and has contributed largely to the London and American press. Mi* recreations were searflshing, shooting and ethnology.