People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 10 August 1911, Page 1533

People We Hear About

A new weekly paper, under the direction of Mr. Hilaire Belloc and Mr. G. K. Chesterton, has made its appearance in London. It is called the Witness, ■ . Lady Emly, the wife of a peer whose family has been connected with Ireland for many generations, has been elected chairman of the Limerick Board of Guardians. Colonel Pryce-Jones, Conservative member for Montgomery Boroughs, has declared that if there were no party questions he would follow Mr. Lloyd George blindfold, for he regarded him as the greatest intellectual genius Wales had ever produced. • Ladies have done well in the Poor Law Elections in Ireland. In Cork three of the four lady candidates headed the polls in their respective wards-Miss Murphy, Miss Day, and Mrs. Barry. There are upwards of 40 ladies who are P. L. Guardians. A London paper remarks that Lord Chief Baron Palles, who is probably the oldest Judge in the United Kingdom, is now in his 80th year, and is still 1 regarded as one of the ablest men on the judical bench in the United Kingdom. Chief Baron Palles is a Catholic, an old Jesuit boy, and was a Liberal, in politics, .but he is first and last a Judge, a man really of judicial temperament, and as free from bias as humanity may remain. He is the Last of the Barons/ that title no longer being applied to the holder of any judicial office. Sir Joseph McGrath, who has been made a knight, is Registrar, and Member of the Senate of the National University since 1908. He was one of the secretaries of the R.U.1., and has been honorary secretary of the Clongowes Union since its foundation in 1897. He is' one of the honorary secretaries of the Royal Dublin Society. Sir Joseph, who was educated at St. Stanislaus' College, Tullabeg, is a graduate, of London University, and was called to the Irish Bar in , 1892. , Sir Reginald Arthur Egerton, C. 8., who was included in those on whom Coronation honors were conferred, is Secretary to the General Post Office, Dublin since 1897. He is the fifth son of the Rev. Sir Philip Grey-Egerton. He -entered the Civil Service (General lost Office) in 1868, and was, in 1886-1891, second private secretary to the Right Hon. H. C. Raikes, Post-master-General He was received into . the Catholic Church in 1878. . ; Among the Irishmen ,on whom honors were conferred at the Coronation was Colonel Sir -Nugent Everard, whose name is so intimately associated with the re-birth of the tobacco-growing industry in Ireland, He is Lieutenant for County Meath and a J.P, for the county of which he was High Sheriff in 1883 He .is the eldest son of the late. Captain' Richard Everard and Matilde Arabella, daughter of Le Marquis d’Amboise. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity Co 1fege, Cambridge, of which University he is ah M.A. He is an Hon. Major in the Army and Lieut.-Col. and lion. Colonel late commanding sth Battalion Prince of Vv ales Leinster Regiment. T n The Right Hon. Michael Francis Cox, who has been made a Privy Councillor, is a distinguished Dublin medical man, who was born at Kilmore, County Roscommon, in 1852. He was educated at St. Mel’s College, Longford, and at the Catholic University Dr otW S f u h ° ld % ° f man y distinctions, medical and • ' S a Fellow or the Royal College of Physicians M.D. Iron causa of the R.U.1., Fellow of the S ? a • Academy of Medicine, a Senator of the National University and Governor of the Catholic University Medical School. He is a member of the First Goverm nig l%ly of the Dublin College in the National University and A was elected Chairman of Convocation last year. Apart from his professional distinctions he is the author of interesting works on The Irish Horse and The Country and Kindred oj Oliver Goldsmith.