cent. OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 77, 1 April 1914, Page 7

cent. OBITUARY

■ m DISTINGUISHED JOURNALIST. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received April 1, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, 31st March. Mr. Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, is dead. [Mr. Timothy Daniel Sullivan, a distinguished journalist of Irish 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 1886 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 Dublin, for connection with tho Land League Movement. The jury disagreed, and Mr. Sullivan was examined before tho < Parnell Commission in 1889. He delivered speeches in many parts of Great Britain during the Home Rule propaganda. He was M.P. for Westmeath from 1880 to 1885, and represented Dublin City, 1885-92, and West Donegal from 1892 to 1900. His publications include "Dunboy ana other Poems," "Green Leaves," "Evergreen," "Prison Poems" (written while in Tullamore Gaol), "Recollections of Troubled Times in Irish Politics." He was also the author of the song "God Save Ireland."] SIR HUBERT HERKOMER. (Received . April 1, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, 31st March. Professor Sir Hubert yon Herkomer is dead. [Professor Sir Hubert yon Herkomer, C.V.0., Hon. D.C.L. Oxon., Hon. LL.D. Camb., was born in Waal, Bavaria, on 26th May, 1849. He received the Grand Medal of Honour at Paris in 1878 for his picture "The Last Muster," and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1879. He was an Officer of the Legion of Honour, Foreign Knight of the Prussian Order -of Merit, and held the Maximilian Order of Merit. For nine years (1885-94) he was Slade Piofessor of Fine Arts, at Oxford, and held a life professorship at Munich. He founded the Herkomer School of Art at Bushey.] REV. WILLIAM REDFERN. (TIUES AND SI'ONBJr SUN SERVICES.) (Received April 1, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, 31st March. The death is announced of the Rev. William Redfern, president of the United Methodist Conference.