OBITUARY.
EARL OF ST. GERMANS.
(Received 5, 11.55 a.m.) Capetown, April 4. Obituary.—Earl of St. Gormans at Johannesburg.—(A. and N.Z.) [The Earl of St. Gormans (John Granville Cornwallis Eliot), who was only just over 30 years of age, was a captain in the Royal Scots Greys. He served with distinction during the war and was awarded the M.C. He married Lady Blanche Somerset, daughter of the Duke of Beaufort.]
SIR JOHN KIRK,
(Received 5, 9.55 a.m.) London, April 4. Obituary-—Sir John Kirk, of the Ragged School Union.—(A. and N.Z.) [Sir John Kirk was born in 1847. He spent part of his boyhood in France, and at sixteen became clerk to the Pure Literature Society, then Assistant Secretary to the Ragged School Union. Later he was director of the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union. He always took a prominent part in Pearson’s Fresh Air Fund and other funds of a similar nature. He leaves a widow, four sons and a daughter.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 99, 5 April 1922, Page 5
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161OBITUARY. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 99, 5 April 1922, Page 5
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