People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 36, 8 September 1904, Page 10

People We Hear About

Mr. Gilbert Scott, the young architect of the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the foundation stone of which the King laid the other day, is the grandson of the Sir Gaarge Gilbert Scott whose handiwork, bqth as an original architect and a restorer, is seen all over England Mr Gilbert Scott is a Catholic.

Speaking at the unveiling of the statue to the late Mr. Gladstone, which has been elected by the citizens of Liverpool at a cost of £5000, Lord Spencer said no public man tlhey knew had shown such courage or tenacity of purpose as he exhibited continually in the active times of his life, and there were hardly ...any times when he was not active.

One of the encouraging features of the St. Vincent do Paul Society's Conference in Liverpool was the presence of a number of veteran members. One of them, for instance, was Mr. Schoolbred, who celebrated his golden jubilee as a member on the Feast of St. Vincent. Air. Schoolbred was initiated in the work oi the Society in the city where it was started by Ozanam— Paris.

Lord Gerard,, to whom the King paid a visit at Eastwell Park recently, is a member of one of the oldest Catholic families in England, although his present title of nobility is of comparatively recent origin. Lord Ger>ard is the third baron, the heir-presumptive to the title being his uncle, the Hon. Robert Gerard-Dicconson. The principal seat of the Gerards is Gars wood, near Newton-lc-Willows, in Lancashire.

Major Jameson, who in the House of Commons has deserted, the Nationalist for tihe Ministerial Benches, promises (says the ' Daily Chronicle ') to hatve-as diversified a political career as. ..Mr. Chamberlain himself. Twelve years ago he was an ardent Liberal, and tried unsuccessfully to persuade the electors of Bury St. Edmunds to return him to Parliament. Three years later Weat Clare accepted him as an anti-Parnellite in preference to Mr. Rochefort Maguire, who stood as a Parnellite. In l'9oo he was a full-blooded Nationalist. The Major, in addition to s-oldiering, has filled the post of II. M. Inspector of Factorials and managed the distillery bfusiness of his Dublin firm.

The King has approved of the appointment of Sir Gerald Strickland, K.C.M.G. (Governor of the Leeward Islands), as Governor of Tasmania, on the retirement of Sir Arthur Havelock, G.C.S .1., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E. Sir Gerald Strickland, who was born in 1861, is tho eldosit sion of the late Captain Walter Strickland, R.N., and Louisa Bc/nici, heiress of Sir Nioholas Seeberras, fifth Count della Catena, Malta, through whom he is the sixth Count. He reoeived the honor of C.M.G. in 1889 ifor services as chairman of the Malta Cholera Committee, and was knighted in 1897. Since 1902 he has been the Governor of the Leeward Islands. Sir CJerafd Strickland married, in 1890, Lady Eveline Sackvillc, eldest daughter of the seventh Lord De La Warr,

It may porfaaps be of interest to know tihat Lord Garvagh, who is supposed to be in the running for election as an 'Irish Representative Peer, will, in the event of his election, break the record as being the only Irish Represent alive Peer who has ever been identified with the Home Rule cause. Early in the seventies of the lajst century he was proposed l»y the late Professor Galbraith when he was an undergraduate of Ohxistchurch, Oxford, as; a member of the Htame Rule Association, and was one of Ihe founders of a Plome Rule Club at Oxford. His election would be also remarkable as one of the few instances — we believe .the oinlv instance since the Union, with the sole exception of that of Lord Rathdonnell — im which the holder of an Irish Peerage created after the Union was elected an Irish Representative Peer.

If there is anything more certain than another (writes a correspondent of the Dublin ' Freeman's Journal ') it is th&t the Duke of Wellington was not born in Dangan Castle. Nor yet, as alleged by many writers, was the hero of Waterloo born in Merrion street, Dublin. Arthur Wesley— for so the name was written until the year 1796 — was born in Grafton street, Dublin, opposite the Provost's House, on May 1, 1769. This house was subsequently dismantled, as Lord Mornington acquired Antrim House, in Merrion street, in 1771, which was bought, in 1790, by Nicholas, Lard Cloncurry, for £8:000, and siolH, after the Union, for '£2500. Tr/ue it is the Diuke of Wellington spent a few years of his boyhood at Dangan ;, but he was undoubtedly born in Graf ton street, as was attested 60 years ago by one of his intimate friends. Just, a century ago Damgan Castle waJs purchased by Roger O'Connor, who burned it 'in 1809.