PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12101, 6 November 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

By the'death of Mr W. H. M'Keay yes- , terday afternoon the legal profession loses r one °f ' ts . oldest members. Mr M‘Keay f 'Y" 3 born in London ninety-one years ago-. 1 He crossed to France when quite a boy, i ? n£ f s Pynt his early manhood there, being r '"business as a manufacturer in bronze, j About 1850 he sailed for Victoria, tried j ' ns r | ,lr£ °" tho diggings, and then went to England, returning to Victoria a little I ! ' tc T; 1862 he came to Dunedin and > Tj.i I:,w ‘ starting in business with Mr I-,. Barton, and subsequently enter- ! ’ nto Partnership with Mr John Mouat. Afterwards he practised on hia own ac--5 lount - About fifteen, years ago ho acceptod the position of Supreme Court li- • m r l;' n uu F u r j* l ? last twot , nr three years , health had boon unsatisfactory, and i '. n r in '7 ,-J c last eighteen months the asMytant librarian. Miss Bentham, relieved i hln ' of mu( h of his duty. Towards the . f nrl , n carbunciilnr boil at tho back of his , head caused trouble, but he really died ot old age. Mr M’Keay was known to the profession as a skilful conveyancer, and he was a critical French scholar. Jseing ot a retiring disposition, given more to study than to talk, Mr M'Keay was not a man to form sudden friendships. but those who had the privilege of his acquaintance enjoyed his rinened views on public and'national questions! He leaves one son and four grandchildren A London cable advises that Sir H Raw sen, Governor of Now South Wale« JdmiSk * ml ° n the rStired list