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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 49, 6 December 1900, Page 20

Sergeant Thomas Dalroy, of the Royal Dragoons, a native of Kildare, is the biggest man in the English Army. He stands just 7ft <>Ji a in his stocking feet, and is splendidly proportioned in every way. The Daily Chronicle says: — 'Mr Lyall, a resident in South Kensington, whose death has just occurred, held perhaps a unique position in this country. Let Mr Kensit listen. Mr Lyall was a Catholic in receipt, up to the day of his death, of an income paid to him as the Anglican incumbent of a city church. This is how it came about. The city church was " improved " off the face of the earth some years ago ; but the incumbent was to go on drawing his stipend as long as he lived, but without having duties of any sort to perform. Soon after hia retirement Mr Lyall joined the Catholic Church. Nobody could object, for he had no oure of souls, so the salary went to him as before. It may be added that he devoted the whole of it to works of charity, many of whioh will now suffer heavily by his death.'