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.-. * • ADMIRAL C. C. P. FITZGERALD. <By Cable—Press Ai'Rociation-'Copyright.) (Beuter'a Telegrams." LONDON, August 13. The death is, announced of Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald, aged eighty years. At his own request, the body was sewn in a blanket and taken out to soa in a filling boat and buried. [Admiral Charles Cooper Penrose Fitzgerald was born at Coikbeg, # Co. Cork, on April'3oth, 1841, and jomcd the Navy in 1854, when he was appointed to H.M.S. Victory.' He served as midshipman in H.M.S. Colossus in the Baltic during the Russian war. Later, in H.M.S. Retribution, he made a voyage round the worldy and he ,was present in the Bame ship at the bombardment of Nanking m November, 1853. He served as lieutenant in H.M. ships Ariadne. Corde.ia. and Hercules, as commander in the Agincourt, Asia, and Rapid, and as captain in Inconstant Bellerophon, Inflexible, and Collingwood. He was flag captain to Sir Francis Sullivan in the Inconstant dtiring the Egyptian campaign, 1882; captain of Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1883-85: aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, April sth, 1892, to February 20th, IfcQS. when he was promoted rear-ad-miral. He served as Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, 1895-96, > and as Second-in-Command of the China Station, 1893-99 In 1902 .he succeeded Admiral Sir H. Rawson as chairman of the committee appointed to enquire into tlhe structural strength of destroyers. He was promoted vioe-admir«l, March 28th, 1901, atid admiral, February 20th, 1605. Admiral Fitzgerald was the author of "Boat Sailing and Racing" 1883» '<Life of Sir George Tryon," 1897; "Memories of the S?a," 1913; and "From Sail to Steam*" i Jl6."] TWO BRITISH M.P.'S. (By Cable—Press Ae«ocia'd<*n—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received August 15th, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 15 The deaths are announced of Sir Edward Coates, Coalition Unionist M.P. for West Lewisham, and of. Mr W. Tyson Wilson, Labour M.P, for the West Houghton Division of Lancashire since 1906. Sir Edward Feetham Coates had been member of the House of Commons for Lewisham sinoe I£o3. He was a member of the firm of Coates., Son, and Company, stockbrokers. He was 68 years of age. Mr William Tyson Wilson, who was born in 1855, was one of the founders of the Bolton Build.ng Trades Federation. • He was appointed Whip to the Labour Party in IUIS and Chief Labour Whip in 1919. A Nelson telegram announces the death of Mr William Bethwaite, who had resided in the district sinoe 1858.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17225, 16 August 1921, Page 10
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