DEATH OF MR. C. B. IZARD.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 99, 24 October 1904, Page 5

DEATH OF MR. C. B. IZARD.

The death of Mr. C. B. Izard, which' took place yesterday, removes from among us one who has been a colonist since the 'sixties, and an eminent colonist, not only in his profession of law, but in educational matters and publio life. Some years of an invalid existence has to .a great extent removed Mr. Izard from the popular vision, but a generation ago, and up to the nineties, he was prominent in public affairs, and represented Wellington South and Suburbs in Parliament from 1887 to 1890. Born in Brighton, England, in 1829, Mr. Izard was educated at King's College, London, and at Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship. He took his degree in mathemathical honours in 1854, and was first senior of that time. About two yeai.s later, after studying at Lincoln's Inn, he was called to the bar, and practised in the Chancery Division. In May, 1860, he arrived in Auckland in the ship Avalanche, but was soon, within the same year, attracted to Wellington, owing to this city's central position. Here a successful legal career opened up to him. In 1868 Mr. William Pharazyn came into legal partnership with Mr. Izard, but died four' years later. About 1875 Mr. H. D. Bell joined the firm, and Izard and Bell became a noted firm, whose mantle has fallen upon Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers. Mr. Izard w4s also Crown Solicitor. His career of successful work, relieved by a well-earned trip to England in 1876, culminated in his retiring with a competency in 1887, his retirement being chiefly due to failing eyesight. His public life included, besides his term in Parliament, membership of the Board of Governors of Wellington College, and the Girls' High School, directorship of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, and of the Meat Export Company, of which latter he was Chairman. He donated the fund for the "Mary" prize, which is now among the annual honours awarded by the Girls' High School. Though this colony has run to protection, that policy was never endorsed by Mr. Izard, who remained a strong Freetrader, and during his Parliamentary career not even his allegiance to the Atkinson Government could prevent him from voting against that Gov-, ernment's protection proposals. A year before he left England, Mr. Izard married Miss Hayward, of Sussex, who predeceased him by four years. Recently his daughter, Mrs. Pharazyn, died. His surviving children are : Mr. C. H. Izard, barrister and solicitor, of Wellington; Mr. H. S. Izard, barrister and solicitor, of Wairarapa; Mr. Ernest Izard, of the Bank of New South Wales; Rev. Herbert Izard, of Malacca; Dr. Arnold W s Izard, of Wellington; and Miss Izard.