OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19545, 15 February 1929, Page 15

OBITUARY.

MR ROBERT BEECHER WARD. The death occurred on Wednesday evening 0 f it, Robert Beechcr Ward, of Chapter street, St. Albans. He was the second son of the Rev. C. E. Ward and the late Mrs Ward. Mr Ward waa a partner in the legal firm of Meaan Weston, Ward, and Lascellea, and had been connected with the firm for nearly twenty-four years. His illness commenced some weeks ago daring a visit to Melbourne to witness the third Teat match. The lute Mr Ward was born in Invercargill i n 2>su, and received his early education in Wellington and Dunedin, completing it at Prince Albert College, Auckland. After leaving college he joined the accountancy staff of the Kauri Timber Company, Auckland, and then took a position with the Kaiapol Woollen Company, Christchurch. He commenced the study of law, and passed all his professional subjects in remarkably quick time. In March, 1905, he joined the legal firm of Messrs T. S. Weston and Son, and in 1919 was admitted to partnership in the firm, which ia now known as Messrs Weston, Ward, and Lascelles. Mr Ward married, in 1911, Miss Kllen Graham Brown, of Nelson. lie is survived by his widow and one daughter, Miss Doreen Ward. In athletic circles Mr Ward was very Erominont, and was for many years a nlwark of Canterbury cricket both on the playing and on the administrative sides. As honorary treasurer of the Canterbury Cricket Association over a long period of years he proved to be a most capable director of the financial affairs of the Association. During his playing days Mr Ward was a member of the East Christchurch Club. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Lancaster Park Board of Control, representative of the Cricket Association on the Board, and a vice-presi-dent of the Canterbury Cricket Association. During the time of the dispatch of the New Zealand cricket team to England he gave a great deal of time and energy to the raising of funds for the tour, and he was aiwo in a large measure responsible for tho promotion and success of the art union which raised a great amount of money for tennis and cricket some two years ago. The news of his death will be received with regret by a wide circle of friends. BISHOP OF CHICHESTER. (BRITISH OrriCUL WJBELEfS ) (Received February 14th, 7.10 p.m.) EUGBY, February 13. The death occurred during the night of Dr. Winfrid Oldfield Burrows, Bishop of Chichester since 1'.»19. Dr. Burrows, who was aged 71, was previously Bishop of Truro. [Dr. Burrows was born in London and educated at Corpus Christi and Christ Church, Oxford, obtaining high academic distinctions. He was a tutor of Christ Church 1884-91, and in 1891 became Principal of the Leeds Clergy School, where he remained till 1900. After being successively vicar of Bt* Augustine's, Edgbaston, and Archdeacon of Birmingham, ho became Bishop of Truro in 1912 a„d then ae--1919J* the of Chichester ia