OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 21711, 4 May 1934, Page 9

OBITUARY

DR D. EARDLEY FENWICK '■ i [Pa* Unhid Prm* Association.! ;! WELLINGTON, May 4. The sudden death has occurred of Dr D. Eardley Fenwick. [Dr Fenwick was forty-seven years old. The son of the late Sir George Fenwick, he was born in Dunedin, and was educated at the Otago Boys’ High School. He graduated from the Medical School . here, and continued his . studies at Middlesex Hospital. He was a doctor of medicine and a member of the Royal College of Physicians. As a lieutenant-colonel he served throughout the war in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the New Zealand Medical Corps. He was consulting physician to the - New Zealand Military Forces and’to the Military Hospital at Trentham, and he was later commanding officer of the Queen Mary Hospital for nervous diseases at Hamner. On resuming private practice in Wellington' he became an examiner in medicine to the New Zealand University, and he was a member of the Royal Commission on tuberculosis in 1928. He was chairman of the executive council of the dominion branch of the B.M.A. in 193031. When at the High School Dr Fenwick was a member of the first eleven and fifteen. He captained the Otago University Rugby team in 1910, and was a member of the New Ze: ’and University team which went tp Australia at that tim.e He married Miss Alison Bartlemau, who, with one son and two daughters, survives him.] LORD TREDEGAR Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, May 3. (Received May 4, at 9.40 a.m.) The death is announced of Lord Tredegar. Ho contracted bronchial pneumonia immediately after he had disembarked from the Orford after his return from Australia. [Lord Tredegar was sixty-seven years of age. He was formerly lieutenantcolonel in the Royal Monmouthshire Engineers. He served in the Boer Wap and in the European War from 1914 to 1918. He was A.D.C. to the King from 1925 to 1926.] MR W. H. WOODIN Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, May 3. (Received May 4, at 2 p.m.) Mr William H. Woodin, a former United States Secretary of the Treasury, died to-night. He resigned several months ago when he suffered a' breakdown in health. | While Mr William H. Woodin headed the national Exchequer there was slight fear that Mr Roosevelt’s Government would indulge in any serious currency inflation. During his business career Mr Woodin built up a reputation for conservatism which discouraged unround fiscal experiments.Sir Woodin combined the qualities of an industrial leader with those of ait artist. He ** a devotee of music, some of his compositions having _ been performed publicly, a numismatist, and an art collector. This was the first publio office he ha’i held. Ho was a Republican politically, but supported Mr Roosevelt, his friend, for election. This Pennsylvanian was born in 1863. Ha began his business career as a worker in his father’s foundary at 4s a day,His rise was rapid, and in 1916 he became president of the American Car and ‘ ‘oundry Company. Ho was’ also a director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.]