DEATH OF A MUTINY HERO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 18 July 1907, Page 4

DEATH OF A MUTINY HERO.

ADVFATIUUIS I AVE OF Silt J. FAYKKR. London, May 2i. Sir Josi'iili Fayrer, who died at Falmouth yesterday in his eighty-third year, lived one of the moat adventurous lives that can fall to the lot of any man. He was tin' sou of a naval officer, and entered the navy in 1847 as an assistant surgeon. In that capacity he went through the siege of Palermo, and was present at the siege of Rome by the French. He next entered the service «>f the F-ast India Company, and played a prominent part in the Burmese war.

When the Mutiny broke out he was Residency surgeon at Luekuow. Throughout the terrible siege he was both soldier and surgeon, and his house, on the walls of which he licked off the names of those who fell, was a fortress as well as a hospital. • Fourteen' people, ineuding the heroic Sir Henry Lawrence, died In it. but scores of others were saved by his skill.

After acting for a time as professor of surgery in Calcutta, he returned to Kng land, but went kick again to accompany the Duke of Edinburgh on his tour. This honor \va> followed by followed by a stil greater one. when, at the special deire of yueeu Victoria, he accompanied King Edward, then the Prince of Wales, to India. He was personally requested by the Queen not to let the Prince expose himself to any danger from disease, and to write frequently to her direct. In 1807 be retired from the presidency of the Medical Board at the India Office with a baronetcy and the rank of sur-geon-general, having held that post for over twenty years. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Lieutenant-Colonel Fayer, who is medical officer of the Duke of York's school.