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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 37, 14 September 1905, Page 10

Sir E. El^ar, the famous Catholic musician and composer of ' The Dream of Gerontiius,' has had the degree of Doctor cf Music conferred o\n him by the Harvard (U.S.A.) University. President Roosevelt was present at the function! . W. F. J. Fit/.,piatrick, Victorian Railway Commissioner, was fc/ocii at Headford, on the fc^nks of the Lough' Corn!), County Galway, Ireland, in 1854, and was bTouigJht to Australia by his parents whilst still •qiuite a child. After gome: through a course of education at St: Patrick's College, Melbourne, he entered the Victorian railway service in 18G8, at the age of 13, and succeeded in 35 years in raising himself from messenger boy to Commissioner.