People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 8, 21 February 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About.

Mr. C. Burnand, the Catholic editor of London Punch, has attained his 64th year. L The eldest son of the Marquis of Dufferin was killed early in the South African war, and another son has now been wounded. Mrs. Hay wood, the widow of the recently-deceased Chamberlain to his Holiness, died on December 14. Like her husband, Bhe was an American oonvert to the Catholic faith. The only sister of the late Monsignor Barry, V.G., of the diocese of We«tmin«»tf>r, i* the well-known Lady Superioress of the Mater Misericordia; Hospital, Dublin, where for 47 years she, as a Sister of Mercy, has ministered to the wants of the sick and dying. The Rev. Edward Abercrombie Wilkinson, M.A., Anglican vicar of Whitworth, near Durham, has passed away. He belonged to a very old Durham family, and was a brother of the present Catholio Bishop of Hexam and Newcastle (the Right Rev. Dr. Wilkinson). Lord Arundell, of Wardour, a Catholic peer, has just attained hia 69th birthday. He married a daughter of Mr. John Erring ton, of High Warden, Northumberland, but has no issue, and the heir to his titles is hia brother the Rev. the Hon. Everard Aloysius Gonzaga Arundell, who is in holy orders of the Catholio Church. One of his half-sisters is a nun. The friendship of the ex-Empress Eugenic for Princess Henry of Battenberg is well-known, and it is believed that she has left the bulk of her fortune aud beautiful jewellery to the latter's daughter, Princess Ena. Ie is now announced that the Princesß is in future to be known by the name of Victoria Eugenic. The oldest Catholic member in the House of Commons is Sir John Austin, who ia 77. The following are sexagenarians :— Messrs. J, F. X. O'Brien, P. Carvill, James O'Connor, P. J. O'Brien, Donal Sullivan, W. McKillop, and Colonel Nolan. The youngest member is Mr. O'Shaugbnesay (West Limerick), who is only 23. Messrs. Boland, O'Mara, Murphy, and Hope are 30 or under 30. The youngest direct descendant of the Father of his Country, Miss Mary Washington Bond, has, strangely enough, just married a Catholic and an Italian, Mr. Attilio P. Morosini. Moroaini, senr., the father of the groom, disapproved of the marriage because Miss Bond was not a Catholic, but he has since reluctantly relented. The Moroeinis are of the staunchest Catholio stock. Sir John Conroy. Bart., Fellow of Baliol College, Oxford, who died recently in Homo, in his 56th year, and by whose death a baronetcy becomes extinct, was not merely one of the most learned scientists in Europe, but the head of an ancient Milesian family in Ireland, and as such entitled of right to be named and addressed as ' The O'Mulconry.' One of Sir John Conroy's ancestors, who had large estates in Connaught, was beggered by the confiscations of Cromwell ; another fell at the battle of the Boyne fighting for James 11. ; Sir John Conroy's grandfather, who was created a baronet, was Equerry to the Duke of Kent, the father of Queen Victoria ; and his grandmother, the first Lady Conroy, was always believed to have been the medium of the friendly communication from the Queen in the early years of her reign to Daniel O'Connell. Sir John Conroy's mother was a daughter of Sir Lawrence Parsons, afterwards Earl of Rosse, the vehement opponent of the Union in the Iri-h House of Commons ; and her eldest brother was the Earl of Rosse, the famous astronomer, from whom Sir John Conroy acquired the scientific tastes which made him a renowned Oxford Dou, a Lecturer of Ptiysios, aud a Fellow of the Royal Society. An amu'-ine incident occurred at the first meeting of the new Wei-trnin-.ter t 'orponuion, London. The counoil agreed to apply to the Karl- Mnrshal <or a grant of arms, and the Duke of Norfolk (the Mayor of the new borough), with a merry twinkle in his eyegravely informed the members that he would, as Mayor of the city, use his influence with the Earl-Marshal to obtain a favorable consideration of the council'a request. The idea of the Duke of Norfolk as Mayor of Westminster pleading with himself as Earl-Marshal was too much for the gravity of the council and the joke was greeted with a peal of laughter. It is very evident that the Duke intends to keep this council in good humor, for he enlivened the proceedings with many pretty flashes of his wit. He proved himself to be exceedingly business-like, and set himself against any undue waste of time. One could not help extending a little sympathy for the photographer — ' that horrible necessity of the end of the nineteenth century,' as the Earl called him — who was peremptorily ordered to desißt from taking a Becond shot at the Council, because, in the opinion of the Mayor, he was wasting the time of the members.