OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 146, 29 September 1910, Page 6

OBITUARY.

The following deaths are recorded in the English papers which arrived on Monday:— * Sir Charles 'Pearson (67), Judge of the Scottish Court of Session. ■Canon Charles 'Michael Turner, formerly rector of Aldford, Chester, within one day of completing ibis I'OOth year. He was a kinsman of Thackeray, a sole survivor of sixteen children of LieutenantGeneral Charles' Turner, nine of Whom took Orders, and seven served in the Army. Dr. Mary A damson Marshall (74), of Watford), a woman medical pioneer and senior physician to the New Hospital for Women in Euston road. Mr. T. R. Elkington (50), of Bentley Hall, near Ipswich, manager of the East Anglican Daily Times. M. Louis Olivier, editor of the Revue Generate des Sciences. He organised annually a voyage in the Mediterranean, in which the tourists were accompanied •by specialists. Among the cultivated French public these voyages were regarded almost as an institution. Sir Fleetwood Edwards (68), at one time secretary to Queen Victoria, and retired Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Lords. Mr. William Mitchell, L.L.D.,a prominent Glasgow educationist: Rev. Edward Pay son Hammon (80), died at Hartford, 'Conn., C.S.A., was an American Presbyterian minister, wlio became widely known as an evangelist and writer of tracts. He specialised in services for children, and many Christian workers in England still .recall .his .singularly impressive The Children's' Special Service Mission was one outcome of 'his work in England, its founder, the late Mr. Spiers, having come under Mr. Hammon's influence in, I'SG7. Xews was received in Melbourne last week of the death of the Dean of Lincoln, Dr. E. C. Wickham, which' occurred recently in (Switzerland from pneumonia. Deceased, who was a 'distinguished university .scholar, was (headmaster of Wellington College from 1873 tp 1893, when he was appointed to the deanery of Lincoln. He was a son-in-law of the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone, having been married to the tetter's eldest daughter, who survives him. The late Dean, who was bom in 1834, entered the ministry in 185?.