OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2113, 2 April 1914, Page 5

OBITUARY.

SIR HUBERT HERKOMER, ARTIST By Telegraph—Press Aesociation-Copyriptlit London, March 31. Professor Sir Hubert von Hcrkomer is dead. Professor Sir Hubert von Herkomer, C.V.0., Hon. D.C.L. Oxoii., Hon. LLD. Camb., was'born. in. Waal, Bavaria, on May 26, 1849. He received the Grand Medal of .Honour ab Paris in 1878 for his picture, "The Last Muster," and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1879. His was an Officer of the- Legion of Honour, Foreign Knight of tho .Prussian Order of Merit, and held the Maximilian Order of Merit. For nine years

(1885-94) he was Slado Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford, and held a life professorship at Munich. He founded the Herkomer School of Art at Bushey.

DISTINGUISHED JOURNALIST. London, March 31. Mr. Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalst, is dead.

Mr. Timothy Daniel Sull'van, a distinguished journalist of Irieh parentage, was born in Bantry, County Cork, in 1827, and was educated at the Bantry schools. He took an active part in public life, and was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 188G and 1887. In 1888 he was imprisoned for two months in Tullamore Gaol, for publishing reports of "Suppressed Branches" of the Land League. He was previously prosecuted, with Mr. Charles Parnell and about eighteen, others, at the State trials in Dub-

lin, for connection with the Land League Movement. The jury disagreed, and Mr. Sullivan was examined before the Parnell Commission in 1889. He delivered speeches in many parts of Great Britain during the, Home Rule propaganda. He was 31.P. for Wcstineath from ISBO to 1885, and represented Publin City, 1885-92, and West Donegal from 1892 to 1900. His publications include "Dunboy and other Poems," "Green Leavds," "Evergreen," "Prison Poems". ■ (writtefe while iu Tullamore Gaol), ."ItecollectiShs of Troubled Times in Irish Politics." He was also the author of the song "God save Ireland;'REV. WILLIAM REDFERN. ' "Times" and Sydney "Sun." Services, London, March 31. The death is announced of the Rev. William.. Redfern, president, of the United Methodist Conference. '