OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 31 January 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

'A' DISTINGUISHED PAINTER.;. By Tdcsraph—Press Association—CoDyriehl London, January 29. ' Mr. John M'Whirter, R.A., is dead. Mr. M'Whirter was born near. pflm-. . burgh, and . studied at Peebles, at ' the Edinburgh School of Art; was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1864, and of the ..Royal 1 Academy .in 1891. His favourite "themes were Scotch subjects and scenery. LORD WINTERSTOKE.. London, January . 29. The death is announced of Lord Winterstoke. The deceased Peer was educated in the Mill Hill School, and at tho London TJni-. versity, and was born in 1830. He was a member of several public bodies at Bris-. tol, was chairman of the Imperial Tobacco Compiny,-and-.was a director.;of the? Great Western. Railway. Company. ■J- . AN AMERICAN AUTHORESS. New York, January 29. Elizabeth Phelps Ward, the American authoress, is dead.- — Mrs. Ward was born on August 31, 1844, at Boston, and is'the daughter of the Rev. Austin and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. She began to write for the press at the age of 13 years. Mrs. Ward was the author of a large number of novels, beginning with the "Gates Ajar," published in 1868. Among her later volumes were "Jonathan and David" and "The Oath of Allegiance," both published in 1909. She married Mr. A. D. Ward in 1888. MR. J. L. KIPLING. {Rec. January 31, 0.58 a.nl'.V " - London, -January -30. • ■ Mr. John Lockwood-Kipling, Mr. Rudyard Kipling's father, is dead. . John Lockwood Kipling, C.1.E., was born in England in 1837, and went to India when.a'young man. Ho was. an artist and, sculptor, and was for several years conAected with the Bombay-School of Art an 4 the Lahore .Central Museum. It was while he lived in Bombay that his famous son was born (in 1865). He published in "891 his "Beast and Man in India," he furnished illustrations for several of nis son's stories.