People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 25 June 1903, Page 10

People We Hear About

Mr. Finley P. Dunne has made an engagement to s-^y^flTooS J%^ Ha^- (New York) for a A proposal to confer the freedom of the City of Liverpool upon Mr. Chamberlain has been dropped in consequence of Liberal opposition Dr. Elgar, the composer of the ' Dream of Gcrontius an oratorio lounded on Cardinal Newman's celebrated Poem is a Catholic. He is a native of Broadheath, near Worcester, England. When the King visited the Vatican, amongst the high ? p Jt ?J fi . c J. aI 1 ? who received him was a former member oi the British House of Commons— The O'Clery, who is Irivate Chamberlain at the Papal Court. A ChamberrVu 11 ■ |f onor the Pope has also sat in Parliament, ihis is Count Arthur Moore, who sat for Clonmel from 18/4 to 1 880, and for Londonderry City for some time before the last general election. There are several Papal Counts in Ireland. u D u' r Dou ' fflas IT^ vdo > jn «• lecture a few weeks ago in which Re referred to the way in which the old Irish names had been changed, indicated that Mr. Chaunceylopew s name should really be Mr. O'ShaughnessyOepew, the original American ancestor being an 0 Shaughnessy from Gort, County Galway, who settled in Mcuyland in the 17th century. To this origin Dr. Hyde is to be attributed the character of Mr. Depew s after-dinner speeches. Right Rev. Mgr. Stonor, Archbishop of Trebizonde, who received King Edward at the Vatican, and ushered him into the Pope s presence, has spent nearly his whole life in Rome. As there is no official representative of England to the Holy See, Monsignor Stonor takes the place ot such a functionary. The lato Queen had a great regard for him, and picsentod him with a valuable ring in token of her esteem. Monsignor Stonor, who is 70 years of age, was uncle to Ihe late Lord Cainoys, and is groat-uncle of the present peer, while Madame d'Hautpoul is his niece. The only portrait 111 existence of Thomas a'Kempis is that drawn by the eminent Catholic physician, Sir rrancis Cruise. Dr. Cruise has been led from his own observation on the relics of the Venerable a'Kempis to conclude that the author of the ' Imitation of Christ ' was slightly over five feet six inches in height Ho possessed a well-knit frame. He was of dark-complex-ion, and fresh in color, and his eye was remarkably piercing— his sight so good that he never used spectacles ihe cause of a'Kempis has never been canonically opened at Koine, but the Church has never raised objection to the title of 'Venoiablc' being bestowed upon him— a tiadition followed by the entire Catholic world. The Most Rev. Dr. Murphy, Archbishop of Hobart was 88 years ot a S c en '1 hur&day of last week, his Grace having been born at Belmont, County Cork, on the day of the battle of Waterloo, Juno 18, 1815 Ho received his education at Maynooth College, where ho was ordained priest m 1 838— 65 years ago. He soon after left for the Indian mission, and after laboring there for ■^onie veais was conseciated Coadjut or-Bishop of Madras 111 18 16, and two veais later Dr Murphy was appointed Bishop of Hyderabad During the Mutiny in 1857 Bishop Murphy displayed gieat pi udence, and sedured from the Ni/am several stands of arms for the boys of the college, who were di died in expectation of a rising in the State. In consequence of failing health Dr. Murphy was tiansfonod to Hobai t in 3 8(35, of which See ho became Archbishop in 1888. The elevation of Sir George White to the rank of I-ield Marshal puts Ireland m the position of furnishing three Field Marshals to the British aimy. This (says a London paper) is probably unpai alleled in the annals 01 the army. Then Sir T Kelh -Kenny, an Irishman is Adiutant-General ; Sir lan Hamilton', a Scotsman is Quaitcrmnster-General and Sir Edward Ward Permanent Under-Secutarv of the War Oflice, is also a north-country man And Lord Kitchener the Indian Connnandet-in-Chief. is of Irish birth. When we take stock ol the Cabinet, with its four Scotsmen and three Inshnien, the Archbishops, both Scotsmen, and so on it must be admitted that a former (and still living) statesman's ' Celtic fringe ' looks as if it intended to become the entire mantle of the State. The navy has been puiely English /up to vei v recently, but even in that domain an Irishman is now head of the fleet which delends (he Channel Count Cecil Kearnev who was married the other <lav to Mrs. Cufife, of Killakev, widow of Captain J O CwnV. a giandson of tho fifth Earl of Harborough, is a .1 V for County Mayo and a Count of the Holy Roman Empire He was first married to Alice, eldest daughter of Sir William Palmer. Bart., of Palmerstown. She died in 1897, and their only child, the Countess Alice Kearnev, v>ho will be well remembered wherever earnest Liberal work is towaid, died two ,v eai s later. The Alice Keamev Memorial Lecture Fund was founded by public subscription in memory of her. The family of "Kearney is of ancient Milesian descent, and held extensive possessions in the southern counties of Ireland long before the English invasion. They were the hereditary keepers of St. Patrick's Crozier. otherwise known as the Kearney Crux.