TRIUMPH OVER MISFORTUNE
The short life of the Hon. Huia Onslow, a son of a- former Governor of New Zealand, was an example of courage triumphing over misfortune. While on a holiday in Tyrol in July, 1911 (states the London ‘Times’), a few months _ before his father’s death, he seriously injured his head in diving. Although everything possible was done, the effect of the accident was that he became parti-lysed from the waist downwards. With extraordinary courage he set himself, at the age of twenty, to reconstitute his life. He had already shown a- strong bent for science, and he settled at Cambridge for the sake of the facilities for research to be obtained there. He devoted himself more particularly to Mendelian investigations, in which lie attained no small success, and he contributed papers on tho subject to scientific journals. His friends will long remember him for the charm of his personalitv. and the strength of character which "enabled him to turn what seemed to he a. maimed life into one of usefulness to mankind.
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Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 12
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175TRIUMPH OVER MISFORTUNE Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 12
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