THE YEAR'S DEATH LIST

Evening Star, Issue 20062, 31 December 1928, Page 6

THE YEAR'S DEATH LIST

The death list of the year has in- j eluded some famous names. Statesmen I who have passed away include the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Lord Haldane, Earl Cave (Lord Chancellor), Mr Andrew Fisher (ex-Prime Minister of the Commonwealth), General Obregon (exPresident of Mexico, assassinated). Signor Giolitti (ex-Prime Minister of Italy), Colonel George Harvey (American ex-Ambassador to Britain), Mr Robert Lansing (American ex-Secrc-tary of State), Mr Chauncey W. Depew (American politician), and Prince Lichnowsky (German Ambassador to Britain at the outbreak of war). The Dowager Empress Mane of Russia died in October. Art has lost Thomas Hardy, Blasco Ibanez, Sir Edmund Gosse, Sir G. 0. Trevelyan, Dr W. H. Fitchett, W. L. Courtney, Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, Barry Pain, Louis Tracey, writers; Hermann Sudermann, dramatist; Sir George Frampton, sculptor; Dame Ellen Terry, actress; Sir Frank Dicksee and Charles Sims, painters. Famous soldiers and sailors who have passed away have been Earl Haig, General Diaz (Italian commandcr-in-chief in the Great War), General Wrangel (Russian White leader), Colonel Goethals (American soldier and administrator of the canal zone), Admiral de Roebeck (of the Dardanelles campaign), Admiral Von Scheer (German commander at Jutland), and Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas (Jutland). Other losses of the year include Roald Amundsen and Dr Otto Nordenskjold (polar explorers), Lord Tennyson (son of the poet), Sir John Thorneycroft (naval architect), Lord Carnock (diplomatist), Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst (women’s suffrage leader), and Mr Richard Teece (general manager of the Australian Mutual Provident Society). , , ... The New Zealand death list includes Mr John Edie (ex-M.P.), Sir Westby Perceval (ex-Agent-General), Mr Thomas Humphries (ex-Surveyor-Gcn-eral), Mr John Tunbridge (ex-Conunis-sioner of Police), Mr A. J. Mitchell (ex-Superintendent of Police), Mr A. C. G. Glass (founder of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union), Dean Peter Regnault, Monsignor Patrick O’Donnell, Canon Parata. Mr G. W. M‘Litosh (general manager of the National Bank), Mr David M‘Kee \\ right (poet), Mr H. E. Travers (Wellington), Dr Harold Williams (journalist), Dr J. Allan Thomson (first New Zealand Rhodes scholar), Mr Benuo Scherek (musician), Mr H. Brinkman, and Lieutenant-colonel Andrews. Names specially associated with Dunedin are those of Sir William Sim, Sir John Hosking, Hon. Mark Cohen, Hon. J. B. Callan. Mr Charles Speight, Mr Herbert Webb, Mr J. A. Park, Mr A. E. Ushenvood, Mr W. A. Paterson, Mr Duncan Wright (missioned, Rev. Dr Gray Dixon, Rev. E. B. Wcthey, Mr Robert Hay, Mr G. A. Fenwick, Mr George Mohdy, Captain George Thomson, Mrs Marion Johnston (daughter of Captain Cargil), Mrs Elizabeth Findlay (pioneer of the Philip Lairig), and Sirs W. H. Reynolds.