People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 1 July 1915, Page 41

People We Hear About

The Empress Eugenie celebrated her eighty-ninth birthday on May 5. Since 1882 her chief home has been at Farnborough, Hants. , The name of Second-Lieutenant Harold Marion Crawford is on the list of officers who- fell -in action. Pie was a son of the late Marion Crawford, the novelist,* and went to England from Sorrento, Italy, at the outbreak of the war. He was commissioned in the Irish Guards. His father was a convert to the Church as is also his aunt, Mrs. Hugh Fraser. Notwithstanding his nearly three score years, Lord Denbigh is accompanying the Hon. Artillery Company to the Dardanelles. As a young man he joined the Royal Artillery, and was in the Egyptian campaign of 1882. He has been in command of the PI.A.C. since 1893, and is also a colonel of the Territorial -Forces and A.D.C. to King George. He has always been a favorite at Court, and tor eight years acted as Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and King Edward. . His daughter, ,Lady Dorothy Feilding, has made herself famous by her devotion to the wounded in Belgium, and his eldest son and heir, Viscount Feilding, is at the front with the Coldstream Guards, and has been mentioned in recent dispatches. Speaking at the Bank of New Zealand meeting the other day, Mr. Martin Kennedy, K.S.G., mentioned that this year he completed' his ‘ majority ’ as a director of the bank. ‘On 26th September next,’ said Mr. Kennedy, ‘ it will be twenty-one? years since I was first elected to the position, and during the whole of the intervening time you have maintained me uninterruptedly in office, always re-electing me unopposed. I confess that when I look back "over those years, and contrast the position of the bank to-day with that in which it unfortunately stood twenty-one years ago, I feel a pardonable pride in the change that has been effected. The march of time is fast carrying me on to the point at which I must of necessity retire from some of my directorships, but the bond that has been forged by my twenty-one years’ association with this institution is a strong one, and while I continue to be honored with the confidence of my fellow shareholders, I shall endeavor to hold my services at their disposal as long as I feci myself capable of discharging satisfactorily the trust which they commit to my keeping.’

Mr. Charles Napier Henry, R.A., whose pictures at the Royal Academy exhibition this year have attracted much attention, was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, in 1841, being the son of Henri Hemy, a musician df note, who was a convert to Catholicity. He was educated at Newcastle Grammar School and at Ushaw. Having tried a religious vocation with the Dominican Order at Lyons, Mr. Henry, at the age of 22, discovered that he had not a vocation and returned to the world, where he took up art. Two years later his first work was exhibited at the Royal Academy. Then he went to Antwerp to study, and finally to London, where he settled for a time. That fine picture of his, 1 The Pilchards,’ was acquired by the Chantrey Bequest in 1898, and again in 1904 another of his pictures was bought for the nation. In the year of the purchase of ' The Pilchards ’ he became an Associate of the Royal Academy, and. five years ago he was made a full Royal Academician. His marriage took place in 1880 to a daughter of W. G. Freeman, who was a convert from the ranks of the Anglican clergy. Mr. Henry has two sons, both of whom he has given to the' Church, and his two daughters are also in religion.. Therefore, none of his family has followed in the artist’s footsteps. What he himself wished to be, when a young man, his children have become.