WHO'S WHO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15566, 25 March 1914, Page 12

WHO'S WHO.

The Bishop of Oxford, who has recently been in retreat, is probably tho shyest of the English prelates. He has never been interviewed, and is a confirmed bachelor. Dr. Gore has men servant!) only at Cuddesdon —a practice which wan followed by the late Cecil Rhodes.

Mr. A. A. TobiD. K.C., who defended George Ball in the Liverpool sack murder trial, first came into prominence, 60 far as London is concerned, with the Crippen case. Mr. Tobin was recommended to Mr. Arthur Newton for the defence of Crippen by Mr. F. E. Smith. He enjoys a most extensive practice in the north of England, and has the most ecclesiatical voice of any member of the Bar.

The Bishop of London, who celebrated his fifty-sixth birthday a few weeks ago, has a lot of humour in his composition. After a game of golf with a lawyer, whose language somewhat shocked the bishop, someone inquired of Dr. Ingram how he liked the match. "I am afraid," replied the bishop, "that my opponent's profession has undermined his sense of justice, for over and over again I heard him ask Heaven to condemn his caddie prematurely for his misdeeds.' Dr. Ingram is a "bachelor, hit he is very fond of children. Before he became Bishop of London a lady once asked him how he managed to find sufficient words of praise for all i.he babies he had to christen without making the mothers jealous. '"Oh," was the answer, '' I just take tho baby in my arms, rock it to and fro, and say 'This is, ir leed a baby!' "

Mr. Justice Bucknill, acting on medical advice, has tendered his resignation to the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Justice Bucknill discharged his duties with /.eal, ability, and a desire to do absolute justice to everyone concerned. Among his colleagues he is intimately known as " Tommy," a circumstances which on occasions has led to a good deal of amusement and embarrassment in court. Some time ago in South Wales a reporter had with him his ten-year-old son with the object of initiating him early into the mysteries of his profession. A demure little boy, he watched hie parent conscientiously, and attracted the attention •of Mr. "justice Bucknill. who sent 3 note from the bench addressed to " the little boy by the table." It read a.-i follows:—" I see a nice little boy watching his father, and I .«end him a shilling for his money-box.— T. T. Bucknill."

" I wonder what the man in the street really thinks about the King," said a | court official recently. " I am not at all sure that His Majesty is properly under- | stood by all his people. I have even heard it said that he is inclined to live flloof from his fellows and lead a colourless life. This is nonsense. -.The King | takes the minutest interest in the details of the lives of the people around him. In practice he is the most democratic monarch alive. Do you see that young man over there' He' is a very brilliant photographic artist. Who made him so? He has been taught and encouraged and advised by King George for years. The Kimr started out by being his most relentless critic. ' So-and-so,' be used to say, 'that photograph this morning is about the worst- I've yet seen. And in that one von took last week you made me look like a dummy figure out of a tailor's window.' At another time His Majesty said to this young man, ' Please give us life-like photographs, not death-like ones.' -