Obituary

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 272, 20 November 1934, Page 4

Obituary

THE ORIGINAL "ALICE” United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Nov. IG. The death has occurred of Mrs Reginald Hargreaves, tho original of “Alice in Wonderland.” Mrs Hargreaves died peacefully in her sleep in an old house overlooking Wolfe’s statue at Westernham Green, happily characteristic of “Alice’s” old-world personality. Although over eighty years old when she visited tho United States in 1932 for Lewis Carroll’s centenary, she enjoyed (he trip immensely, and was ■ greeted everywhere as-a world-famous figure. Mrs Hargreaves recently prepared a special copy of the book “Alice in Wonderland,” which was inscribed "From- the original Alice”, and presented toPrincess Elizabeth.

Near the banks of the placid River Chenvell, a f§w miles above Oxford, a young lecturer on mathematics, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, related on a summer’s day in'July, 1862, the story of a little girl who wandered through a rabbit hole into amazing underground adventures.-

His listeners were the Misses Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell, daughters of the Dean of Christ Church College at Oxford. Tho story they heard was one that later became known as "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” by Lewis Carroll.

The original Alice, who became Mrs. E. Cr Hargreaves, went to the United States to attend tho celebration of Carroll's centenary at Columbia University. Tho centenary actually fell on January 27, 1982, but Columbia postponed its festival until May so that Mrs. Hargreaves might be spared an ocean crossing in winter. The university made her an L. L, D. Dodgson, who had just turned 30 in 1562, so far as the outside world was concerned, was simply the author of dry works on geometry and trigonometry. To the Liddell sisters he was a fascinating storyteller. The guns that boomed at Vicksburg that July 4, when the tale .of Alice’s adventures first was unwound were as far away to the entranced listeners as the guns, of Plunders fields before which Alice Hargreaves's two. suns were to fall more than half a century later.

Dodgson kept his projmse to write out the story for Alice Liddell, and once in her hands it left, them but twice, first in ISSS when Dodgson borrenved it for a facsimile edition, and again in 1928 when it. was auctioned to Dr. A. S. W. Bosenbaeli for 72,250 dollars. Mr. Eldridge B. .lohnson, of Morristown, New Jerspy, is tho present

owner. Mrs. Hargreaves was S2 years of age,

Mr Dion Titheradge LONDON, Nov. 16. Obituary: Mr. Dion' Titheradge, after an operation. The Daily Tei'cgrapb says: The late Mr. Dion Titheradge would have been a greater figuro if the state of his health had -not stood in his way. He was a sound actor, but was best known as a writer. Apart from his theatrical capacity, he was a most modest,, «n----assuming and pleasant man.

Uion Tifcheradge was born in Melbourne in ISS9 and made his first appearance on the stage at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1908. Subsequently he toured Australia and New Zealand, playing a wide variety of parts, and then joined the Liverpool Repertory Society. Later he was engaged by Lewis Waller and played in Daly’s Theatre, New York. He had a long and successful career in America and during the war devoted himself to authorship. In 3925 he reappeared in England and in 1527 visited the Antipodes again, playing in "Hello, Hello! ” He has written many plays, including "The Blue Train,” “Now and Then,” and “Chariot’s Revue. ! ’ Well-known. Sculptor LONDON, Nov. 16. Obituary: Air. Jagger, the wellknown sculptor. Air,- Charles E. .Tagger, R.A., a Yorkshireman by birth, is best known, as a sculptor by his Royal Artillery Alemorial, at Hyde Park Corner, a work which marks the climax of a- brief but strenuous career of virile realism applied to statuary and especially monuments commemorative of the war, and also of the memorial to Earl Haig. A couple of years ago the Prince of Wales gave him sittings for a statue-portrait for Lord Esher, and it represents the Prince at recreation with a tennis rac quet under his arm. Air. Jagger was a pupil of the late Professor Lanteri, at the Royal Coliege of Art, South Kensington. But he said that he learned more in the war, through the whole of which he served in the Worcestershire Regiment. Gallipoli Veteran LONDON, Nov. 15. The death is announced of BrigadierGeneral H. E. B-. Nswenham, C. 8., after a long illness due to war injuries.

Brigadier-General Newen'ham, who was 67 years of age, commanded the 2nd. Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, at the landing on Gallipoli in 1915. He was severely wounded and lost a leg. He was Alayor of Lymington in 1924, 1925, 1926, and 1927.