OBITUARY.

Hastings Standard, Issue 501, 14 December 1897, Page 3

OBITUARY.

(P{T lVr-5-s Avsocintion—Copyright). Washington, Dec. 18. The death is announced of Mrs M'Kinley, wife of the President of the United States. London, December 13. Obituary—John Longsborough Pearson, the well-known ecclesiastical architect. Deceased descended from old Durham families, possessors of property in that country. In 1850 be was engaged in building, for the late Archdeacon Bentinck, Holy Trinity Church in Westminster, at the foot of Yauxhall Bridge, a work which attracted the admiration of the late Sir Charles Barry, of Augustus Welby Pugin, Sir Gilbert Scott, Mr Salvin, and other leading men. In 1860 he built the school of St. Peters', Vaux Hall, for Canon Gregory of which the Prince of Wales, laid the foundation stone, it being the first occasion tbe Prince performed this ceremony. Deceased was the architect of Lincoln Cathedral, of the new Truro Cathedral, of Peterborough Cathedral, and of Westminster Abbey, since Sir Gilbert Scott's death. He was the architect for St. George's Chapel, Windsor ; Bristol Cathedral, and for Rochester Cathedral, also making a desigh for the cathedral at Brisbane.