OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23110, 28 August 1940, Page 10

OBITUARY

. -—— ; . MR J. H. ENRIGHT The death occurred at Lewisham Hospital, Christchurch, early yesterday afternoon, of Mr John Hayes Enright, , of Westport, one of the best-known , businessmen of the West Coast. The ■, elder son of the late Mr and Mrs i Timothy Enright, Mr J. H. Enright was j born in Charleston, 'West Coast, and ' was educated there and at Nelson Col- ] lege, which he entered as the holder j of a scholarship.

MR J. H. ENRIGHT After leaving college, he entered into business life in Westport in the firm of merchants which he and his brother, Mr T. Carr Enright, in partnership, developed and extended. When Mr T. C. Enright left for Auckland, his brother took over the entire business which he owned and directed until his death. Outside his own firm Mr Enright had various business connexions in different parts of New Zealand. He was a director of the Charming Creek Coal Company, and was a shareholder in many business concerns in the North Island. For nearly 30 years he had been vice-consul for Norway in Westport, and held the decoration of the Order of St. Olaf. He had served on practically all local bodies in Westport—borough council, harbour board, progress league, and committee of the School of Mines. In his earlier days he was a keen oarsman and cricketer, and did much useful work on the administrative side of both sports. For more than 20 years he had been president of the Westport Rowing Club, and this office and that of treasurer of the Westport Jockey Club he held at the time of his death. He was a member and past ; president of the executive of the Bullcr Agricultural and Pastoral Association. He is survived by his widow and , one daughter. Mr T. C. Enright, of , Auckland, is his only brother and his , sisters are Mrs C. M. Malfroy. of Wei - , lington. Mrs W. J. White, of Hastings, ' and Misses Mary and Nonie Enright, ! of Christchurch. . , „ The funeral will take place at West- • port to-morrow morning, and will he ■ preceded by Requiem Mass celebrated ' at St. Canice's Church. : DUG DE GUISE DEAD i PRETENDER TO FRENCH THRONE LONDON, August 26. The Due de Guise, Pretender to the French Throne, died to-day in Morocco. : He was the grandson of the last Bourbon King of France, Louis Phillippe. He is succeeded by his son, the Comte de Paris, who becomes leader of y the French Royalists, The Due de Guise (Prince Jean Pierre Clement Marie d’Orleans) was i born in September, 1874, the second son , of the Due de Chartres. By the death of the Due d’Orleans, son of the Comte | de Paris, at the end of March, 1926, he ; became pretender to the throne of France. His father was a brother of the Comte d Paris, and he was thus a

DUC DE GUISE cousin of the Due d’Orleans, whose sister, Princesse Isabelle, he married in 1899. „ The laws of the French Republic forbade him to serve in the French Army, so he received his military training in Denmark, his sister, Princesse Marguerite, having married Prince Waldemar of Denmark. At the beginning of the Great War he asked for a commission in the French Army, but this was refused. Nevertheless, the French Government employed him on a diplomatic mission to his cousin, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. The Duke owned great estates at Nouvion-en-Thierache in the Aisne Department, and much agricultural land near Larache, Morocco. Until he became pretender he kept out of politics and led the life of a country gentleman. Under the law of the Republic the claimant to the throne could not live in France, and accordingly in May, 1926, he took up his abode at the Manoir d’Anjou in Belgium.