OBITUARY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 291, 21 September 1935, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR J. M. GEDDIS. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr J. M. Geddis, editor of the “Free Lance” and an ex-member of the Hansard staff, is dead, aged 79. He was an ex-president of the New land Unitarian Association.

MR JOHN E. G. GILES

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Mr John E. G. Giles, a well-known and highly respected resident of the city, died suddenly. Mr Giles, who came from Winton, Southland, had lived in Christchurch for many years. His wife predeceased him. He leaves one daughter, Mrs A. Polkinghorne (Lyndhurst), three sons, Messrs E. A., and G. Giles, and 12 grandchildren.

PROFESSOR J. K. H. INGLIS.

(Special to the “Guardian.”) DUNEDIN, September 20

The death has occurred after a long illness of Professor J. K. H. Inglis, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Otago. Professor Inglis was born in Christchurch in 1877, and was educated at Christ’s College and Canterbury College. At the age of 21 he graduated M.A., B.Se., taking firstclass honours in mathematics and in mathematical physics. Ho then proceeded to the Edinburgh University, where he graduated in 1900, taking the degree of B.Se., with special distinction in mathematics and! natural philosophy. In 1904 Professor Inglis was appointed assistant to Sir William Ramsay at the University College, London. Two years later he became lecturer and head of the chemical laboratory in the University College, Reading, where he was appointed! professor a year later. In 1906 he became a D'.Se. of the Edinburgh University, and in 1911 was admitted to fellowship of the Institute of Chemistry, London.

In 1912 Professor Inglis was appointed to the chair of chemistry at the University of Otago as successor to Professor Black. Valuable public service was rendered by the chemical department of the University of Otago under Dr. Inglis in the manufacture of Chloramine T on the outbreak of eerobro-spinal meningitis in the military camps in the early part of 1917. Professor Inglis worked out a process for large-scale production of this most efficacious drug for spraying. Through his assistance and with the bacteriological laboratories established at Featlierston and Trentham, the medical services were in a much better position to attack the menace of eerebro-spinal fever. Professor Inglis took a very active part in the life of the university and its administration. His wife died six years ago. He leaves one daughter.

M. JULES GAMBON. PARIS, September 19. M. Jules Gambon, who was French Ambassador in Berlin at the outbreak of the war, is dead, aged 90. M. Cambon was born in April, 1845, in Paris, where he studied law and practised as an advocate. He took part in the war of 1870-71 as a captain in the Garde Mobile, and afterwards took up administrative work. He became a Government auditor, and was then sent to Algiers as attache to the Governor-General. There he soon became head of his department, and in 1878 was appointed Prefect of Constatine. In 1879 lie became general secretary of the Paris Police Prefecture, and in 1887 Prefect of the Rhone Department. Four years later the Government made him GovernorGeneral of Algeria. M. Cambon then turned to diplomacy and was in 1897 appointed Ambassador at Washington, from which, in 1903, he went to Madrid, where he strongly supported Declasse’s Moroccan policy. After his transfer to Berlin in January, 1907, he proved a skilful promoter of France’s plans in Morocco, his chief adversary being the German statesman Kiderlen-Waechter, with whom at the beginning of 1912 he concluded the Morocco-Congo agreement. After returning to Paris at the outbreak of war he became in 1915 secre-tary-general at the Foreign Ministry under Briand. After the latter’s resignation in March, 1917, M. Cambon left the service, but after 1920 again found a post as president and member of the Paris Ambassadors’ Conference. In July, 1921, he wrote for the ‘‘Revue des Deux Mondes” interesting recollections of July, 1914. M. Jules Cambon, like his elder brother Paul (Ambassador in London from 1898 to 1920), who died in May, 1924, belonged to the older and most successful generation of French diplomats. He was a member of the French Academy.