WHO'S WHO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15518, 28 January 1914, Page 12

WHO'S WHO.

The Bey. E. M. Blackie, who has succeeded the Rev. J. H. Ellison as Vicar of Windsor, on the presentation of the Lord Chancellor, has been appointed Header to the King in the private chapel at Windsor Castle. A stipend of £200 a year is annexed to his post, which is paid out of the Civil List, and it has usually been held race the reign of George the Third by the Vicar of New Windsor. ' Mr. Black* was lor several years a minor canon of Rochester Cathedral, and he was afterwards incumbent of a church at Edinburgh. He is distinguished as a preacher.

fS% i. W / fcdwitoo. M.A., D.Sc, iJ.K.fc*. has been appointed as from Jan! 1 next to the Wheatstohe Chair ofPhysics, tenable at King's College, in succession to Professor C. G. Barkla.. Dr Richardson was a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge and was placed in the first class of both parte of the Natural S« tripos. n ln 1902 he was elected Fellow of his college, and has also held the Coutte-Trotter Studentship and the Clerk-Maxwell Scholarship. Dr. Richard son graduated B.Sc. at London, with first-class honours m Chemistry and in Experimental Physics, and took his doctorate in Physics m 1904. Since 1906 he has occupied the Chair of Physics at Princeton University, New Jersey

His Honor Judge Lumley Smith, who at 80 years of age has announced his intention to retire, succeeded that remarkable man Mr. Commissioner Kerr in 1901 as Judge of the City of London Court Mr. Commissioner Kerr held that he was the only Judge qualified for a seat in Parliament, and he fought two elections, but, as he was unsuccessful, the question did not arise until the appointment of Mr. Renteul K.C, a month after Judge Lumley Smith had been appointed to be the second Judge of the Court. Mr. Rentoul then sat in Parliament for East Down, and he wished at first to retain his seat, but was persuaded that it would be more desirable to give it up, which he did Judge Lumley Smith bad a considerable practice at the Bar, and was always known as a sound lawyer In addition to this he is » man of ver? amiable disposition and unobtrusive mm-

i ~" Some good stories are told of Colonel J SMosby probably the only man still liv tag who played a distinguished part in the American Civil War, who celebrat*H I; eightieth birthday recently. He wt the most active and successful of The guerilla leaders on the Confederate side On one of his raids Mosby approachedl so near Washington that he could see the dome of the Capitol. Stopping a woman who was driving into the city, he borrowed a pair of scissors from her and cut off a lock of his own hair. " Give that to Mr Lincoln, he said to her. "with my couiplimente. Tell him that lam coming to Washington soon, and would like a lock of his hair." The commission was fulfilled and the President is said, to have greatly enjoyed the joke. Another story tells how Lincoln received the news that Mosby had captured Brigadier-General Stoughton and his staff and a large number of horses " Well,'' remarked the President, " there will be no trouble in making another brigadier,, bat how-can I replace those horses !.-