OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 517, 26 May 1909, Page 2

OBITUARY.

-— —*__— The deaths of the following aro announced in the "Standard of Empire" of April 16:— Dr. Whitley'Stokes, aged 79. Dr. Stokes, who was a distinguished Celtic scholar, editor and translator oi Coltic, Irish, Cornish, and Breton texts, will bo especially remembered for his important contributions to tho consolidation and codification of Indian • law. ■ ',"''■ General Sir Julius Raines, aged 82. General Raines ..was.> a veteran of' th» Crimean war and of tho Indian Mutiny. In 1865 he commanded tho expedition from Aden into the interior of Arabia. Ho was made a G.C.B. in 190 G. Captain D. C. "E. MaoLean,'aged 33.' ' < Captain Mao Lean served throughout, the wai in South Africa. Ho received the D.S.O. in' 1902, and was appointed adjutant of th* .. Bangalore Rifle Volunteers in., 1907. . Colonel W.'.S. Burroll, aged 57.'' : , , '. ■ ,' Colonel; Burroll, of tho!. "Queon's" Royal West Surrey Regiment, spent a considerable : part of his military career in India, Whilst under his.command the first battalion of his regiment was successful in tho competition for the trophy presented by Lord Kitchener, '. the Commander-in-Chief, for tho most efiicv ■'■•■ ent battalion in India. The Mnclnino of Loclibuie, aged 03. Tho Mnolaino acted as military corrospor* '■ dent of "The Timos" with the German army during the Franco-Prussian war. Ho wa» Doputy-Lioutcnant for Argyll. Miss Caroline Stephen, aged 73. • •" ' Miss Stephen was tho only daughter of Sit James Stephen, a celebrated Under-Sccrotarj" of State for tho •Colonies, Her molhorV father was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society—Rev. John Venn. ; -•• Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. White, aged G2. 'Lieutennnt-Colonel White served in India, and took part in the Afghan war n „d in tho relief of Kandahar.. Ho was a ke'on sportsman. :. . . *