OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16460, 9 February 1917, Page 9

OBITUARY.

; I ■» J MRS. JOHN WHITNEY. * i mm . The death occurred on Tuesday of Mrs. t Harriet Sarah Whitney, wife of > Major John Whitney, Wenderholm, " Waiwera, at the age of 83. Mrs. Whitj ney, with her husband, came to Auckland 8 from England 32 years ago, and resided e for the whole of that period within the f province. She was a daughter of the late * Rev. William Chaworth-Musters, of Colwick Hall, Notts, England, and great-grand-daughter of Mary Chaworth, Aanes- , ley Park, Notts, who was made famous to the world through the medium of Lord a Byron's poems. She ma.med Major >» hitl; ney, at Colwick Hail, Kotts, England, in | 1860, and- leaves two isons— Captain A. e Whitney and Mr.' Cecil Whitney—and two g daughters— Alice Whitney and Mrs. . Edward Lewis, who at present is in Engl land. The interment took place at Clevo--6 don yesterday, the body being buried a alongside, the remains of her youngest son, tj Mr. A. C. L. Whitney, who was drowned s at Ponui 26 years ago. 0 MPS. KNOWLES KEMPTON. e Mrs. .Snowies Kempton, wife * ci" the Rev. H. Knowles'Kempton, minister at the Auckland 'Baptist Tabernacle, died on Wednesday, after a lingering illness. Mrs. j Kempton, who was 48 years of age, left j. England nine years ago with her hu?band, a son and daughter, upon the appointment ~ of_Mr. Kempton to the Auckland Taberj. nacle. She waß ex-president of the Tsbernacle Ladies' Benevolent Society and the J Baptist Women's Missionary Union, ;The 8 interment will take place at Waikaraka today, prior to which there will be a short ' e service at the Tabernacle, • • I * DEATH OF SCHOOL INSPECTOR, 0 [BY TELEGRAPH.—PBESS ASSOCIATION] [J : ~-,v-'. DMEIM K Thursday. " The death occurred to-day of uir. Charles * R. D. Richardson, senior inspector of »'- schools in.Otago. He had been operated u upon for an internal trouble. * ' . '■> . . jjj\ \.i/■■:-. '.-;■ ... ' >-.:,'. '■'.