OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14391, 9 June 1910, Page 5

OBITUARY.

SIR W. F. BUTLER. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. London, June 7. The death is announced at Tipperary of Sir Wm. Francis Butler. Death was due to heart failure. Sir Wm. Butler entered the army at the age of 20, and after four years' service in the East was engaged in Canada during the Fenian Raid and Red River expeditions. He later served with distinction in Ashanti, in Natal, during the Zulu war, in the Egyptian campaign,- the Nile expedition, and the Soudan expedition, where he was' promoted to the rank of general. -After commanding several Home districts, he was appointed to the command of the Cape, where he was stationed at the time of the outbreak of the Boer war, but was recalled for insisting that the Boers had made extensive preparations for an extensive campaign, and that the British preparations and the number of men at his command were entirely inadequate. He was the author of a number of well-known works, including "The Great Lone Land," "Akim-Foo," "Far Out," "Red Cloud, the* Solitary Sioux," and lives of General Gordon, Sir Charles Napier, and Sir Georgo Pomeroy Colley. His wife, Lady Elizabeth Butler, is a celebrated painter. PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH. /'Ottawa, June 7. The death occurred, to-day of Professor ; Gold win Smith, the famous historian and publicist, who recently met with an accident in Toronto. ■ Professor Goldwin Smith, who was 86' years of age, had a serious fall some months ago, breaking his thigh. At one time Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, later * hon. Professor of English and Constitutional History.in Cornell University (United States), and prior to that a prominent champion •of the North during the American Civil War, Dr. Goldwin Smith had a unique career. -He'went to; the United States in 1868, and in 1871 to Toronto, where he since resided. He was a brilliant historian, and a trenchant writer on public affairs;., an opponent of militarism and of Imperialism in its aggrandisement aspect; also, a master of English style. His publications include "Irish History and Irish Character," "My Memory of Gladstone," "The Empire," "The United States," "Oxford and her Colleges," "Loyalty,. Aristocracy, and Jingoism," "The Political Destiny of Canada," "Does the Bible Sanction American Slavery?" "Lines of Religious Inquiry," "Specimens of Greek Tragedy," "Labour and Capital," "Cowper," "Guesses at the Riddle of Existence," "In Quest of Light," "No Refuge but in Truth." •■ ..■ \ -, ■:." ~ ■; . • - -