WHO'S WHO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15249, 12 March 1913, Page 11

WHO'S WHO.

'♦ _ \ Upon examining a copy of "Pickwick Papers" which he had bought at a secondhand bookstall, a Battersea resident was surprised to find his own name and his former address on the inside of the cover. The book was last in his possession in 1873, when it was lost or stolen from his school-bag. The new Dean of Durham, who was Canon Hensley Henson, is credited with the following amusing story. The Bishop of Bath and Wells had been visiting Scarborough. On the way to the station ho lost his reckoning and stopped a boy. "I eay,i my lad, how far is it to the station?" he asked. " About a mile straight ahead,", said the boy. Then, staring at the bishop's knee breeches and silk stockings, he added, "What's up? Somebody swipe your bike 1" Lord Reay, who celebrated his 73fd birthday during Christmas week, is a naturalised Englishman, though he is the eleventh baron. The first peer disastrously supported Charles I. against the Parliament, and subsequeiftly found it convenient to retire to Denmark. On® of his grandsons served the Dutch States general in command of the Mackay Scottish Regiment, and the present peer's father, a descendant of the latter, was created aronc.Mackay of Ophemert in Holland; afterwards he sueoeeded his kinsman as tenth Baron Reay. _ The present peer was given a United Kingdom peerage in 1881. and four years later was appointed Governor of Bombay. The Earl of Ashburnham died in Paris reoentlv in . his 73rd year. He went to Paris about four months ago and shortly afterwards caught cold, and his illness developed into asthma. His body was to have been conveyed to England at the end of the week. His daughter and brother-in-law were with him at the end. Lord Ashburnham represented ' one of ' the most ancient families in the English Peerage. He was rich, with large estates in Sussex, Northamptonshire, and Wales ; a widower, his wife having died 12 years ago; and a Roman Catholic, which Church he entered in 1872, five or six years before he succeeded his father tis fifth earl. At the family seat by Battle, in Sussex, are several relics of the execution .of Charles 1., who was assisted in his flight from Hampton Court Palace by the Ashburnham of that period, who was that King's groom of the bedchamber. The famous Mazarin Bible at Ashburnham Place was sold in 1897 for £4000. The only child of the earl, Lady Mary Ashburnham, now 23, who was a remarkably fine horsewoman and much liked in. society, became last year a "novice" in the Order of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton. The dtoth occurred last month of Mr. Frank Hall Scott, for the last 19 years president of the Century Company. "It is well worth while," says the New York Publishers' Weekly, "when a good man > goes, to make his passing the occasion for looking back over such lifelong business association of the highest credit and- value as is illustrated in the business life of Frank H. Scott. Everyone who knew him honoured and liked him. Under his presidency of the Century Company, the office force, from the highest to. the humblest, continued to be a company of friends, associated in a work of high ideals and practical helpfulness. He stood for what was best in the ' publishing trade, and honoured the American Publishers' Association, as it had honoured him when he became its president during a critical time. He could always be called upon when the public weal was at stake, and his independent courage helped many a good cause. The memory of Frank Hall Scott will be cherished for many a year by those who have known and honoured him aa one of the best treasures of remembrance.." •« ♦Wp- &»£'• I 1; ■;