People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 18 June 1903, Page 10

People We Hear About

™ £ distinguished Irish-American orator, the Hon. Mr. Bourke-Cockran, is a native of the parish oi Kitvarnet, in the diocese of Achonry, Ireland; uiikin «f G i? in ? n> • W^° ha^ been appointed Coadjutor-

r^+?r ?«ir T56T 56 Ca . rdin al Vaughan was born in Gloulates oflit Ch« S rl^ dm T atl ?S^^ c u ioined the Order of ObnfSaffmS S^ l^ 005 1872I 872 he was appointed Bishop of Salford, and in 1892 he was elected to the See of Westminster. He has been ten years a Cardinal.

cr* n i,f« «™ d Cl&r J™, leader of the English Bar, began life as an errand boy in a chemist's shop. Hte afterwards got a position as a reporter on one of the London papers, and while engaged in that pursuit he put in his spare moments studying the intricacies of the law. PaurfrhifrH? 6 oH- Blatte £< P astor °' SS. Peter and I « L°£ rCh> C1 ".cago is building a new brick chimney on his parochial school. This would not be remarkable save for the fact that Father Blatter is layr ing every brick himself, and the chimney will be 65 feS high. Ihe parish is poor and the pastor has some spare iSS-eg^y'beSdS.* SlmPle bUSineSS P-POBition P anS

•n«i7^ a ■ ' r^ 00 * 1 ? ah y' Queensland Minister for Railways is a County Cork man. At the ape of twenty he arrived in Queensland, looking for adventure and wealth; and he got both. At first he roughed it for LL ce T r W he rr 1b? 1 b ?, ck blocks of Queensland. He was elected "£tftuS?y D^S 0.,? c 8 ' and «»«—**

Colonel Plunkett, who lost his life in Somali- ™ ?'p, be^ on^ ed to one of the oldest of Irish families. Ihe Plunketts were settled in the County Meath long before the Norman invasion of Ireland. In Meath and the adjoining counties the family has maintained a leading position for ten centuries. There are no fewer than five poors m the family, all claiming descent from the same ancestry. They are the Earl of Fingall, and LoTds Dunsany, Louth, Plunket, and Rathmore

K-inlrti t£ ossesses the oldest Judge in the United fo,i? ,n isio hIS - 1S Vlce - c : han cellor Chatterton, who was bom m 1819—rix years before Lord Halsbury— and who stepped from Parliament to his present position in 1867 As Jnsh Attorney-General he piloted through the House the Act which created the Irish Vice-Chancellorship, and as the position will cease xvith his own life he wili etnoy the distinction of haxing been the fust and last Vicc-thanec or of Ireland. The oldest English Judge Sir Alfred Wills, is nine years the junior of Mr Chatl

The King, says the 'Daily Chronicle,' finds ' a friend a ! ,r°V rt T en in the v «tican. This is the Archbishop of I rebizond, an ecclesiastic better known in this country as Monsngmor Stonor, the younger son of! a Lord Camovs and therefore the member of a family renowned for its si-i-Mce to the Royal House of England. For the arrange111(111 of details he has an ingrained aptitude, and though the episcopal purple of his robes (they are likely enough to be red before long) is set off by an ample crown of the whitest hair, he is xoung enough to bear without fatigue frequent comings and goings between London and Home.

A London paper has been examining the family tree of Air St John Broderick, concerning which it says :—: — lie has lately been rusticating at his ' ancestral ' home m Midleton, County Cork, where the first Lord Midleton is buried This Midleton was the son of the St. John Brodenck who went to Ireland from Wandsworth in 1011 ; got a fine estate at Midleton, in Cork, in 1653 toi h axing served under Ciomwell ; and received a large a.ddjtion to it from Charles 11., whose restoration, presumably, he favored. The Cromwellian St. John Tiroilenck's son was a member of Parliament for Cork in the Irish House of Commons, and was attainted of treason for his opposition to James 11. That, however, was good luck rather than ill, for he was afterwards advanced as a law\ er under William of Orange In the opening of Queen Anne's reign he became Speaker oi Iho Irish House of Commons by a maiority of four xotrs After this he became Chief Justice of Ireland, v. ith a seat in the Irish Lords, b)ut xvas dismissed from that office by the Irish Government of the day, who did rot liko his views on matters of Royal succession. The dismissed Broderick became a member of the English House of Commons for a Surrey seat, and by all accounts had a somewhat stormy career at Westminster, (.eorge I , however, came to the aid of Broderick, fciade him Lord Midleton, and presented him with the post of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. But trouble dogged his foot si ops in that position, and after many disputes and contentions he was driven to resign in J725, and four years later died at his residence near Midleton.