WHO'S WHO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15513, 21 January 1914, Page 12

WHO'S WHO.

Ueaii-Admirai, Stuart Nicholson, ijho has been appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral Dundas of Dundas in the Nore command, will be the junior flag officer on the big, scattered staff of Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney. He is a keen torpedo specialist, and has done much useful work at the Naval Intelligence Department prior to the organisation of the War Staff. In 1908 he commanded the cruiser Natal, which es* corted the late King Edward to Reval, on which occasion he recerreu the M.V.O.

The Bishop of Bristol has decided to resign his see at the end of March. Dr. Browne's episcopate has been very successful, and he has made himself both highly esteemed and exceedingly popular in the diocese. He was working at Cambridge many years, and was afterwards Bishop Suffragan of Stepnev and canon of St Paul's from 1891 until 1897, when he was promoted by Lord Salisbury to the episcopal bench. The bishop is one of-the few learned divines, and he is as distinguished for his scholarship as for his untiring energy, his administrative ability his extraordinary power of work and his judicious tact. It was widely regretted that Bishop Browne was not translated in 1905 to Ely, a diocese which would have been a more adequate and a much more congenial sphere of work for him than his present position.

Captain R. Y. Tyrwhitt, who has bear appointed to the Amethyst, and succeeds Captain C. F. Lambert, the new Fourth Sea Lord, as senior officer of the First Meet Destroyer Flotillas Dei-formed a useful piece of work in Nicaragua in 1894 when he was serving as a lieutenant in the Cleopatra. At that time Nicaragua was in much the same state as Mexico to-day, and a force of revolutionaries had announced heir intention of burning every house in Bluefields. The CleonatraWeS a party under Lieutenant Tyrwhitt to protect the inhabitants and the mere appearance of it on the scene had the desired

If his career as Chancellor of the Exchequer is not brought to an end by a general election soon Mr. Lloyd George will be well on the way to reaching tie record time of holding that office. fife has now been Chancellor for over years! and no Liberal Minister has held the position for such a long period since Mr. Gladstone, who held it for more than seven years-from 1859 till 1866. On the Con servative side Sir Michael Hicks-Beach only failed to. equal Mr. Gladstone's record by a few days in his occupancv of the Exchequer, from 1895 to 1902 Mr Goschen was Chancellor for a month or two longer than Mr. Lloyd George's record up to the present. The three predecessors of Mr* George-Mr. Asquith, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, and Mr. Bitchie—all reined for comparatively short periods. Of recent years the shortest period of office as Chancellor of the Exchequer was that of Lord Randolph Churchill, who resigned after less than five months.

Sir Laurence Nunns Guillemard, the chairman of the Amalgamated Board of Customs and Excise, has had a loner and varied official training for the important and once picturesque position he Holds. It is one of the most ancient in the state, for the practice of levying duty on merchandise for providing" revenue for the King dates from before the Norman Conquest. Sir Laurence was educated at Charterhouse and Cambridge, and entered the Treasury in 1888 at the age of 26. Then he acted as private secretary to two successive Chancellors of the Exchequer, Sir William Harcourt and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. In 1902 he became deputy chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, holding that important administrative office till 1908, when he got his present post. The C.B. was conferred upon him in 1905 and his knighthood five years iter as a reward for. his valuable services.