People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 6 December 1906, Page 28

People We Hear About

■7 ;His Grace the hiSg ; oO|h ;! ;bir4,hday ;. ; ( qn. ; - Monday,.. November 19 , -haying, been' born at Kilkenny -on November ! 19, 1846. He was consecrated firs-t Bishop of Port Augusta on 1888, : and'was translated to- the archdiocese tbf -. laide. on January 5, 18957 : >V:5 7"J:^. Miss s 1 : ln : '>Dubiin ' ..absence ofing 'the reins of '. "the "horse r on which' Spencef, then' Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, was riding,:' in .the early in ;order some -impending evictions, created-a over . the Kingdom, - . ; :i .;.'.., : ..V;_.-c. ..[' ; ■''; .:}:■■'.:.'■ Mr.' J. Travers.; : ;(says tiio. .Adelaide ' Southern" Cross ') succeeded in 'third 1 -seat: for Flinders from Foster; .He. is a Catholic,,:and a'well^ known' farmer in the North. Only '- for the Assembly, and all five of them were "': elected of thlstn•'■•.■topped "the. -^ll—a--fact v the small influence • exercised . i. -this" St ate-.by > the Orange; and sectarian r | X. has John J. tti&riioM;.merchant in- Maiden-lane,/' Ne- York- City', a Knight of- St;- Gregory,, in ■acknowledgmentrvofobiS;Ser r M vices; as. conductor of ; the V;i American • pilgrimage. to .Rom The ' conferring, of -this;.-Vi^idexji-bfHJcni^fchood-UPPn. rJVErV>M'Crane by -y the TPope is jegarded ;.as: aimark,:. ofMlie most signal honor .that :ean the;^Catholic.; Church. .;•':-.'v ; : ; r: :i.' ; ;i: ; s&.:; !h* r ' - - --""Sir i-John -Madden,. Chief Justice has v contributed •an -interesting-article to -'- ; M.A.. : Pr'^eritiiiled --■ Days;of My w '..'say whatever success I nave'achiievbd'in'Afe .has.been due to the splendid and admirable I received-at- St: : the -University of Melbourne, an education which, I ■"venture" to believe, '■■ was second to hone that England . have, given; vMeAai- -••- - ->^-'-^Jvy^wv-*--^^^^ Dr. Finlay, the. new Attorney-General, is a /nativeof; New Zealand, and.'was educated-, ihi Dunedin. 7vsHe ;;distinguished himself at thevOtago ' • taking his■LL.B. degree in 1886. He was called" "in' ,1887, and in: 185)3- he took■-.his .'doctor's -(.degree. He was-, appointed lecturer in political occu--pied .-the position for some-time in' connection? with the, Otago University College, his "lectures,, being notable for research and lirm of r which Sir Robert;' Stout was" the eminent head in 1894, and settled in Wellington; - "- Lord. Herries,- who : has_ just ■ ■celebrated his sixty•ninth .birthday Glasgow ' Catholic Herald') enjoys the unique distinction of having'a duchess as • ■■•■ the'vheir-presumptiye. .■■'■•'-to the anciemt' Scotch::,s.barony * •which'-' was /-restored his father nearly ; :'iif^>yearst ago; .after its presumed'forfeiture in 1715." His daughter, the. Duchess of Norfolk, stands nextHn' tine order of succession,, whileChis own barony in the Peerage of ' the ..United Kingdom 'is without an heir; Lord Herries is a, Catholic, a fact- due to"" some' extent, perhaps, :to -the' that his ancestor; the cLord:Her- " ries who came to England with' Mary Queen-of-Scots, -parted company with John Knox, whose friend and • ;;f cf-llower ■ lie was -at one: "time. The Scbtoh:':"Barbhy' of Herries, restored to the present Peer's father in- 1858, isonot. the title forfeitedv'?in 1715,Nwhen 'it-, was held j by:-,tee..,Eurl,>of::Nitlisdale.::- It is reallyjthelti was, conferred ,on , .the < wife ; of the, Baron -Herries • mentioned as the s friend of : Mary pt Scots,, jointly-with her- husband, "j Itv was -as ?the descendant of that lady that the late. Lord Herries secured the barony, though he was also the' descendant' of the Earl of Niths.dale.' -That; ;nbbleman itOofcrjpart in ■• the Jacobite rebellion" but was assisted to escape from the-Tower by his wife, ; , and : lived, to the ■ -eyetof ;thc vsecond • Jacobite re--_ belli'6hi!T':Lbrd iHerries'^bCcupies, "the V; unusuaiJ' ; of "being Lord Lieutenanb,, of., two .counties—the -East Riding of ...sybTkshire ; an'd^''-Ku : kcudblieh^hixe I ,^ i iri- Scotland. He -is *hot alone in this respect; however. The Earrof Rosebery .is .the of the of ; Edinburgh arid v^i^i^gbw.-;: in- SjcptJand- while the Duke of Devonshire is , Lord Lieutenant of Derby, in England, and his;, Majesty's:.Lieutenant of .Waterfor*d, in Ireland, the prefix 'Lord V not being used across .the ' CnawaeLJlnpreference of f.counties'.!:Tt lisUa) curious circumstance that of the four Scotch peers who Care ,Ca^h6lic>,Vronly/ ; / ; and'i Lord , Lovat—are Scotsmen. Lord Herries is, on the father's side, an Englishman, and Lord Newburgh (Giustiniani Bandini) an Itaiiaul' ■ - ■ ■"•'■.- • - ■'■'•'..-