People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 17 August 1911, Page 1589

People We Hear About

Dr. Alexander Dempsey, *on whom a Knighthood was conferred the other day, is a leading Catholic medical practitioner in Belfast. ■<

The Right Hon. Lawrence Waldron, cne of the recently-appointed Privy Councillors, who is a Dublin stockbroker, was M.P. for St. Stephen's Green Division of Dublin, 1904-9. He has been a Commissioner of National Education in Ireland since 1909. He is a Governor of the National Gallery, . chairman of the Grand Canal Company, member of the Governing Body of University College, Dublin, and a Senator of the National "University.

His Grace Archbishop Dunne ha& ruled the ; important See of Brisbane with singular ability and success during the past twenty-nine years. He succeeded the first Bishop of Brisbane, Dr. O'Quinn, who died in 1881, being consecrated Bishop on June 18, 1882, and raised to the dignity of Archbishop by Papal Brief, dated May 10, 1887. His Grace, who is a native of Clonmel, County Tipperary, is in his 80th year. He was educated at Lismore, in Ireland, and at the Irish College, Rome. He was ordained priest in 1855. He went to Brisbane in 1863, and for 13 years was pastor of Toowoomba, where he was instrumental in settling many Irish families on the fertile Darling Downs. His Grace is to have a Coadjutor, and the priests of the Archdiocese met on August 2 to choose names for submission to the Holy See. '-••-, - ";.',.'■

Under the heading .•' The Captains of the Coronation,' the Daily Express refers as follows to the Duke of Norfolk. Everyone who knows his Grace's capacity for hard work, his tactfulness, . and his wonderful personal magnetism, exacting willing service from all with whom he is brought into contact, will appreciate the words of the writer:—The splendid success of the Coronation was a triumph in stage management for the little group of masterful men, the great captains of the pageant, who controlled it. The chief stage-manager of the most splendid of all tableaux is a short, blackbearded figure who for three months past has scarcely known a moment's rest during working days which have often extended to the full twenty-four hours. He is. Henry Fitzalan-Howard, fifteenth Duke of Norfolk, the Earl Marshal, Hereditary Marshal, and Chief Butler of England. On him fell the heavy responsibility of inviting the King's 6000 most distinguished guests; to see that no one who was entitled to an invitation was* omitted, and that no other person, however persuasive should secure one of the coveted Abbey places.' ' The death has occurred in London of .Miss Charlotte O 'Conor Eccles, the well-known novelist and essayist the deceased was a native of Ballinagard, Hn Roscommon, and was daughter of Mr. Alexander O'Conor Eccles. Educated at Upton Hall, near Birkenhead, and m Pans and Germany, she lectured in Ireland for the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, and was particularly interested in the housing of the poor. She was an active and brilliant journalist and Fellow of the Institute of Journalists. One of her best-known novels is ; perhaps Aliens of the West in which she displayed strength, pathos, and humor in drawing certain types of Irish life. Her little book, Mary Elizabeth, was distributed by the Irish Board of Education, and as a playwright she gave us some comedies full of wit and charm. Miss O'Conor Eccles was widely known throughout Ireland in connection with her lectures, and she endeared herself to all She was descended from one of the most famous of Irish clans,- her father being a descendant of Thurlough O'Conor, through Hugh O'Conor, of Clonalis, son of Sir Hugh O'Conor Don.