OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 25 January 1911, Page 4

OBITUARY.

The latest English papers contain the following obituary notices:— •

J?.' i Walker, the distinguished ex * High Master of St. Paul's School, is dead. Years ago, 'when his college, Corpus Christi, Oxford; of which he was ?r' t, i tor s . a PPointed him to the High Mastership of Manchester . Grammar School, ho began at once to make his mark among, schoolmasters. Manchester School \\as then at a low ebb, -but before h° it j\lr. Walker had raised it to that high-level .yihich it has ever sine© maintained. In 1876, ho was called upon to preside over auother school. St. Paul'* curiously enough the only school which now shares with Manchester the distinction of a High Master, though-, Merchant lajlors onco helped to make a trio. St. Paul s was -then a-very little company cabined, clubbed, confined in an incoiibuilding, at the east end of St. EaiiL s. Chur6"hyard., *It«was an^ideal of one of Mr. talker's Elizabethan predecessors that'a school should be set in'an open place, far-from the crowded streets of a city, and it.was left to, Mr., Walker' to realise it. more than tliree 'centuries later.. Under, his rule, the School of Colet s , foundation - was transferred' to Hammersmith, where it had room to expand, until now it is one of the largest, as it is one of the most successful, of all the schools in England. For this jronderful and rapid development Mr. Walker was chiefly responsible.

Dr. Emil Reich (56) died on Sunday (December 11) of heart failure, after three months' illness. ,He was of Hungarian hirth,' and .was educated at the Universities of Prague, Budapest, and Vienna. He read and travelled widely, and ultimately settled down iu England. He spoke and wrote in English with perfect fluency, and iron a high reputation as a lecturer under tho London University Extension Board. He had a passion for ingeniously controverting established views, and roso into somewhat sudden' notoriety a few years ago through his lectures on, 'Plato as an Introduction to Modern Life" at Clnridge's Hotel. Many fashionable and titled women were for a while attracted by the novelty of the lec-, tures, but the vogue speedily passed away. Those who knew Dr. Eeich were impressed by his brilliant gifts and by tho real extent of his learning. That he was no mean authority ,on international law is indicated by the fact that he was chosen to prepare the British case in the Venezuelan boundary affair. Ho could speak eloquently in half a dozen languages.

. The death of. Canon Emery, to whose initiative the Church 'Congress owes its °FiP in ' removes .'•an interesting' personality. Half a century ago, he ■ organised the first meeting of the Congress at., Cambridge, and ho lived long enough to see, though unhappily -not to take. part, in, its meeting once more, after a lapse of fifty years, in the place of its birth. Illness prevented his appearance at this last gathering. "The Church Congress must be_ reckoned as one anions the beneficial influences that have tended to the greater unity . of Churchfolk (says the "Church ilines ). When we recall the scenes that used to occur at early Congresses, .and the heat that -the expression of opinion on one side engendered among those who wero ranged on the other, and contrast [J lO gentler spirit that now prevails in these assemblies, we cannot help thinking that Canon Emery's happy inspiratioii hail no Jittle to do with the achievement of this . pleasant result." Dr. Michael 'Friedlnnder, Pli.D. (77), for forty-two years principal of the Jews' College in London, a Jewish scholar of world-wide .reputation. General Sir James F. M. Browne (88), who entered the Army in 1842. lu.. the Crimea he served in the trenches before bebastopol, and was, for a time, directing engineer of the right attack on the Redan. General Sir Edward Gascoigne Bulwer (81), of Heydon, Norfolk, a nenhew-'of Lord Lytton, the novelist. Ho served:in the Crimean War. and-in India during the | Mutiny. . Mr. Roderick Geikie (30), a son of Sir I Archibald Geikie, who by some moans fell •in front of a Metropolitan train at Queen's Road Station, Bayswater. He was a Civil Servant, and had ■ served in 1907 as secretary to the Railways 'and Concessions Committees. ' Rev. Frederick H: Jacobs. (55), an American "singing evangob'st," and for eight years an associate of D. L. Moody. Ho was also widely known as director of the Fulton Street noonday prayer meeting, New York. 'Of late years ho" had held the nastorato' of a Baptist Church i:i Brooklyn. " ■ Dr. John Everett. Clough, the "apostle of tho Telugns." During his superintendence of tho Louo Star Mission to that people, there-took place, after long'vears of discouragement, one of tho most remarkable royivals in the history of Indian missions. . Sir Charles Scotter (75); chairman of tho London and South-Wcstern Railwav Company. At the age of eighteen he b'ecamo a clerk-in the Hull goods offico of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (now Great Central) Railway Company, and in seven years was raised to the .position of passenger superintendent. Subsequently lie became goods manager, and ill 188 a. lie succeeded Mr. Archibald' Scott as general manager of'the London and-South-Western Railway. Ho retired from this, position in 1897, joining, however, the : direct orate., and lie was elected chairman in 1904. He was the originator of tho "privilege ticket" system. ..by which railway workers and their depen- ■ dents travel on all lines at reduced fares.