People We hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 29 November 1900, Page 15

People We hear About.

Sir Nicholas O'Conor, British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, and Lady O'Coner are about to pay a visit to Ireland. Sir Nicholas is a RoHCommon man, aud had a very successful career in the Diplomatic service. He is said to be very attentive and courteous to Irish visitors to the Russian capital. Viscount Encombe, whose death took place recently iv liis thirtieth year, was the heir to the Earldom of Elden, as he was eldest son of the third Earl. Ihe deceased Viscount was born iv 1870. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, he took his B.A. degree there in 1893. He afterwards selected the Army as a profession, and was at the time of his death lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of Northumberland Fusiliers. Two years ago he married the eldest daughter of Lord Lovat, a Catholic peer. He leaves a son, who was born last year. Viscount Encombe came of a longlived race, for the first Earl, the famous Lord Chancellor, reached the age of 87, his brother, Lord Stowell, was 1)1, and the father of the first Earl, John Scott, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, also died in hia 9lßt year. His great-grandfather, however, died at the age of 30, and, like his great-grandson, left an heir but a few months old. Mr. Corbett, M.P., who represented East Wicklow for many years, voluntarily retired at the last election. Mr. Corbett was formerly one of the Parnellite group, and in Mr. Parnell'a lifetime was one of the intimate friends of the great leader. He is a landowner in Wicklow, a man of great personal culture and literary taste. There were only three Catholics representing English constituencies in the Parliament now dissolved (says the Daily Chronicle') even including Mr. T. P. O'Connor, the member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool. The other two were Lord Edmund Talbot and Sir John Austin. These three members are likely enough to reappear in the new Parliament — at least one of them without even a contest. Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, the Primatial See of America, who has accepted the invitation of Cardinal Vaughan to preach at the opening of the new Westminster Cathedral, is 65 years of age. He was made Bishop of North Carolina at the unusually early age of 33, and he had the distinction of being the youngest of the 700 prelates who constituted the Vatican Council of 1870. At the age of 43 he was Primate of America, and at 52 a Cardinal Prince of the Church. It is frequently stated that Mrs. Louis Botha, the wife of the Boer general, is a descendant of Robert Emmett, the Irish patriot. She is a descendant of Emmett's elder brother, Thomas Addis Emmett, who was one of the United Irish Directory in 1798, and was punished by the Government merely by confinement in Fort George for three years. Robert Etnrriett, who«e name is so popularly known, was but a youth of 20 in 1798. Ilia attempt at insurrection in 1803 was the last effort of the Brotherhood of United" Irishmen, and his death on the scaffold on September 20, 1803, waa the last tragic act iv that movement. During the famous Congress of Vienna each of the several monarohs present was the guest of some nobleman. On one festive occasion Baron Rothschild was invited par exception. He modestly went to take his place, not among the more exalted guests. V\ hen they discovered Rothschild, however, they all rose, one after the other, and saluted him, except the King of Prussia. Some one asked the King why he did not salute the great European banker. • Did I not Vhe replied. ' Well, I suppose it was because I was tho only one who did not owe him anything.'