OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14610, 18 February 1908, Page 7

OBITUARY.

LORD OVERTOUN. United Press Association—By Electrio TelogTaph—Copyright. LONDON, February 17. The death is announced of Lord Ovortoun, aged sixty-five. (John Campbell White, first Lord Overtoun, was born in 1843, and was raised to the peerage in 1893.) DR W. B. TRIPE. [Per Peess Association.] WELLINGTON, February 17. The death is announced of Dr W. B. Tri|>e, aged eighty-six. About five moiiths ago deceased met with an aocidentj and had three ribs broken, but the immediate cause of death was influenza. (Dr W. B. Tripe was born in London in 1822. ■ He was the second son of Captain John Tripe, who, after retiring from tho army, studied medicine and practised in Loudon. He was educated at the Bow Grammar School and Merchant Tailors' School in London. For several years after taking his medical degree he practised with his brother, Dr J. W. Tripe, in London, and he was on the cholera staff in 1849. He took an active part in the philanthropic movements of the Earl of Shaftesbury, and was honorary physician to the first Shoe-Black Brigade. He came to New Zealand in 1858, and settled in Rangiora, but in 1871 he left for Picton. He was provincial surgeon and immigration commissioner for Marlborough until 1878, when he went to Wellington, where he had resided ever since. For some years past he had been consulting physician to the Wellington Hospital. He was tho oldest physician in Wellington. He married a daughter of Captain J. R. Brandon- in 1858.) [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 17. Mr Frederick Cooper, seedsman and nurseryman, died last night at his residence, Lower Hutt, aged sixty-seven years. Mr Cooper arrived in Wellington with his parentis in 1542. When the gold rush broke out in. Otago. he wont south to try his fortune there, and ho also spent some time on the Ballarat goldfields. On his return to New Zealand he settled down in Wellington. He established a business as a seedsman and nurseryman in this city about forty years ago.