People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 16 March 1911, Page 489

People We Hear About

It is said that Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli will represent the Pope at the Coronation of King George V. Last week his Honor Mr. Justice Williams, of Dun* edin, entered on his 37th year as a member of the New Zealand Supreme Court Bench. Lieut. J. W. Dunne, an Irish inventor, has been carrying out at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, some remarkable experiments to test the claim he makes that his biplane possesses automatic stability. During; the course of several flights the aeroplane was repeatedly flown over a considerable distance without being controlled in any way by the pilot. A short hundred years ago (says an exchange) Napoleon had annexed to his dominions Rome and the whole of Italy. He looked upon the Pope as his vassal; he made him prisoner; he defied his spiritual authority a few weeks ago the heir of Napoleon's fortunes (Prince Victor Napoleon) entered Rome as a fifth-rate Pretender, hardly worthy of a scanty paragraph in the ephemeral chronicle of the day I Lady Norah Noel, daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough, who is one of the soloists of the Sheffield Choir, which is to visit New Zealand in a few months, is a Catholic, the present Earl's parents having been received into the Church in 1851. The present holder of the title succeeded his father in 1881, being then in his thirtieth year. His first wife was a daughter of Mr. Robert Berkeley, of Spetchley, and his second a daughter of Mr. James Arthur Dease, of Turborston, Westmeath. Lady Norah Noel is an issue of the second marriage. Viscount Campden, who accompanies the choir, is eldest son and heir of the Earl of Gainsborough. He was educated at Downside, and Exeter College (Oxford). He is a Lieutenant in the sth Battalion, Gloucester Regiment, and was attache to the British Legation at Christiania for some time. Last week we were informed by cable that Messrs. R. Hazleton, M.P., for North Galway, W. Archer Redmond, M.P. for East Tyrone, and son of Mr. John Redmond, and Mr. Donovan, Barrister, who accompanied Mr. J. Devlin, M.P., to Australia and New Zealand some years ago, were to leave for Australia to-day to collect for the Home Rule funds. Mr. Hazleton, who is a - Dublin man is in his 31st year. He was educated at Blackrock College, is a journalist by professsion, a supporter of the Irish language revival and of temperance reform. He was elected M.P. for North Galway in 1906, after a previous attempt m that year to carry South Dublin against Mr. Walter Long. He unsuccessfully contested North Louth against Mr. Timothy Healy in January, 1910, but was elected by a substantial majority for that constituency in December last. He, however, elected to rep-esent his old constituency. • Ir, T,? me Reward, who has just received promotion in the Diplomatic Service, having been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Republic, is a convert to the Catholic Church into which he was received whilst an attache at the British Embassy in Rome some years & 0, « *? e I s a cio ? ( sa s the Glasgow Observer) of the old Cumberland family of Howard of Grevstoke, a Protestant branch of the house of Norfolk. After the Duke of Norfolk s own family, and that of Lord Howard of Glossod who has two sons, Mr. Howard of Greystoke is next in remainder to the premier English dukedom. It was whilst attached to the Embassy in Rome that Mr. Esme Howard became acquainted with the lady whom he afterwards married, a member not only of a famous Roman princely house but one, also closely connected with Scotland. Donna Isabella Giustimani-Bandini was a daughter of Prince Bandini who was not only head of a Roman patrician family, but also ninth Earl of Newburgh, Viscount Kinniard, and Baron Levingstone in the peerage of Scotland. Owing to the marriage of the heiress of the third Countess of Newburgh to an Irish-Italian Count (Mahoni or Mahonev), who was a so a Neapolitan general, this noble Scots Catholic house has for generations been domiciled in Italy; and the late Earl (who survived to his ninetieth year) could hot although a naturalised British subject, speak a word of English The present head of the family, however, speaks English perfectly, as do his sisters, of whom Donna f Isabella-now 1 known as Lady Isabella Howardis the fifth The title of the earldom is taken from Newburgh on the Tay; and the original seat of the family is Kinnaird Castle, in Perthshire, now part of the estate of Jjingask, the proprietor of which is a brother of Ladv Howard of Glossop. *