OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16796, 12 March 1918, Page 5

OBITUARY.

SIR JOHN MADDEN. A. and N.Z. MELBOURNE, Mar. 11. Till! death is announced of Sir John Madden, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of Victoria.

The Into Sir .John Madden was born in Cork on May 16, 1844. Ho arrived ill Australia with his father in 1857. After being partly educated in England and France, lie became a pupil of St. Patrick's Collegtt, Melbourne, and later a student |of the Melbourne University. Ho took , bis LL.B. degree in 1865, and was called I to the Victorian Bar (he same year. When I about half way through his law course at I the university he turned his attention to j medicine, which he eventually abandoned jto complete his legal studies. In 1867 ! ho received his LL.D., being the first j member of the university to pass the j prescribed course for thai degree. Dr. j Madden rose to a leading position at the j Bar, and was appointed Chief Justice in 1 1813. in accession to the late Chief • Justice Iliginlvitlmni. His political career | began in 1874 when he was returned to 1 the Legislative Assembly for West Bourke. I He was Minister for Justice in the Ale ■Cullocli Government, from October, 1075. j to May, 1877, and in the Service Adminis j t ration of iB6O. For ten years Sir John , Madden was Vice-Chancellor of th" 1 University of Melbourne, and was Chan I eellor from 1837 to tin- time of his death i He was appointed Lieutenant Governor in ; 1899, having previously adminictered the ' Government if th-< colony in 1893, 1395. ■ and 1898. ll.' was knitted in 1895. : created K.C M i:. in 18T9. and G.C.M.G. 1 in 1906. MR. GEORGE MEYER. WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 Mi. George von Lengerke Meyer, Secre- , tarv to the Navy in the Taft Cabinet. : died to-day of tumour on the liver. Mr. George von Lengerke Meyer was born in, Boston on June 24, 1858. He was in business as a merchant -.and trustee from 1879. to 1899: was Arnbassador to Italy from 1900 to 1905. and lo Russia from 1905 to 1907, Ho, was Post-master-General in the Roosevelt Administration from 1907 to 1909, and Secretary to the Navy in Mr. Tuft's'Cabinet s from . 1909 to 1913. He was appointed Overscan .. of Harvard University ia 1911. <_</••, :;'•,'. v.