People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 28, 13 July 1905, Page 10

People We Hear About

Jules Veme> says 'La Croix, 1 of Paris, livea a Catholic, died a Catholic, and was buried from an Amiens Catholic church. Charles Johnston, who collaborated with jCarita Spencer in the production of ' Ireland's Story/ just issued by a nVm of New York publishers, is a son of the late Mr, William Johnston, of i Ballyikllbeg, Ireland. A Capucjhin, expelled by the French Government from the convent? at Bayonn^ has just been decorated by the Spanish Government for an act of heroism. Near his convent of refiuge in Burgos a child was badly burnt To save it from deaths by the process of grafting this brave mon,k gave 29 pieces of his own skin. M;ons%nor Luigi Cerrebotani has arriyed in Paris for the purpose of explaining an<d exhibiting before the War Office authorities his marvellous telephonic and. telegraphic apparatus. The prelate nas already exhibited his Selector 'in England, and in Rome amd Milan, as well as his tele-autograph, by which pictujgg and handwriting can be transmitted to; long distances. "Monsignor Cerrebotani was 'born on the banks « of I»he Laike viiarda, studied in Rome, and has lived several years in Munich. Sir Walter Nugent, Bart., Of Donore, Westmeath, who, it is announced, has joined the limited Irish. League, and subscribed to the Irish Parliamentary Fund, is one of three Nugent baronets (two of them Catholics), and will be forty next December. He was educatedi at the Benedictine College of Downside and at the Catholic University College, Dublin, and succeeded to the trfle and 8000 acres of Jand ten years ago. His mother is the only daughter of the late Right Hon. Richard More O'Ferxall, M.P. The death is announced of Sir G-eorge Glynn Petre, K.C.M.G., whiich took place on May 17 at Brighton. He was the son of Mr. Henry William Petre," grandson of the ninth B a ron Petre by marriage with Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Mr. Edward John, Glymn, of Glynn, Bodnun, and was born in 1822. Sir George was educated at Stonyhurst College, and entered the diplomatic 3 serMcc in 1846. From 1881 to 1882 was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres, and subsequently occupied a similar post at Ascunsion' From 1881 to 1892. he was Minister at Lisbon. The deceased diplomat was a relative of Mr. F. W. Petre the well known architect of Dfunedin. Lord Edmund Talbot, who has been appointed a Junior Lord of the Treasury in the place of Mr. Gerald Loder, 'defeated at Brighton, is the Conservative member for the Cfiicester division of Sussex, which he has represented since 1891. U» to now Lord Edmund has never had to contest an election. He was returned in every lnstanoe Unopposed. He is a brother of the Duke of Norfolk, wafc born in 1855, and educated at the Edgbaston Oratory. Lord Edmund took the name Talbot in lieu of that of Howard in 1876. He has been an officer of Hussars,, and served through the South African war. His activities now are divided between com-1-an.y directorship and Catholic educational matters. By the death of Sir Daniel Ross O'Connell, the Irish Baronetcy loses a distinguished figure. Sprung from the O'Connells of I\eragh, he, like his relative,, the Liberator, was a Kerry man by birth, the family seat being at Lakeview, Killarney. During the troubled reign of thetwo Jameses his ancestors were prc-jninent-ly mentioned, two of them being slain, one a.t Aughrim and the other at Derry. 'Another warlike character was Daniel Count O'Connell, a Peer of France, who fought first with the Irish Brigade for the Bourbons, and later vith the Fourth Regiment of the Irish Brigade under Ihe British flag. The late Sir Daniel was educated at Trinity College, owned some 18,800 acres, and was married to May Pauline, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel IlicLey, of Slcvoyre, BorrisoWne.

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