OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20152, 12 January 1929, Page 11

OBITUARY.

DR. HARRINGTON LEES. ARCHBISHOP OF MELBOURNE. (Received January 11, 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 11. The sudden death occurred last night of Dr. Harrington Clare Lees, Archbishop of Melbourne and Metropolitan of Victoria. Dr. Lees was married recently and had not long returned from England. He had just issued an appeal for peace in industry. The archbishop had been confined to lied for several days suffering from influenza, but had not seen a doctor until yesterday morning. He was having lunch, and his wife was with him, when he collapsed. All attempts to revive him failed. Death was due to heart disease, from which he had suffered for many years. He was formerly a prominent athlete, and strained his heart during his University career. Dr. L ces' body will be cremated and the ashes returned to England. The late Dr. Lees was born on March 17, 1870. He was educated at Leys School, Cambridge, England (whero he beta mo head and senior prefect). St. John's College, Cambridge, and Ridley Hull, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1893 and priest, 1894. Ho was curate of St. Mary's Episcopal Chapel, Reading. 1893-5: chaplain of Turin. 3895-7: curate of Childwall, Lancashire, 1897-1900; vicar of St. John's. Kenilworth. 1900-7: missioner to South Africa, 1906; vicar 'if Christ Church, Beckenham, 1907-19; vicar of Swansea, 1919-21: honorary chaplain of Kelsey Manor military depot, 1914-18; honorary chaplain of the ChristChurch V.A.D. Hospital, 1914-16; mentioned by British Red Cross Society for services, * 1919 ; national missioner to the Guards' Depot, Catorham, 1916. and Stuart Memorial lecturer, Bow Church. 1917-8. Dr. Lees was elected to (he Bishopric of Bendigo, Victoria, in 1919, but refused acceptance. Ho was lecturer in pastoral theology in tho University of Durham, 1921. Ho was consecrated Archbishop of Melbourne in St. Raid's Cathedral, London, on November 1, 1921, and was enthroned in St. Raul's Cathedral, Melbourne, on February 15. 1922. Ho was president of the, Melbourne College of Divinity, 1922-4. Dr. Lees was a contributor to " Hastings' Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels," and author of a number of religious works. EARL HOWE. Australian Press Association—United Service. (Received January 11, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 10. The death has occurred of Earl Howe. His death creates a vacancy in the House of Commons, as his son, Viscount Cur/on, Conservative member for Battcrsea South, succeeds to the peerage. Earl Howe was born in 1861. and succeeded to the title in 1900. He was at Eton and Oxford. He was, from 1885 to 1900, Conservative member of Parliament for the Wycombe Division, and was for some Lime Treasurer to the King's Household. He was a trustee of Lord's Cricket Ground. He. married, for the third time, in 1927 Mrs. Lorna Quinton Dick. Viscount Curzon was born in 1884, and was at Eton and Oxford. He was for many years in the Royal Naval Reserve, and commanded tho Howe Battalion in Antwerp and Belgium in 1914, and served in the Queen Elizabeth later. Tie was first elected for Battcrsea in 1918. At the general election in 1924 he received 19.588 votes, and his Labour opponent. Mr. A. Winfield, received 14.3/1. Ho is a Junior Lord of the T/easury. MR. HOWARD WILLIAMS. Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON, Jan. 10. The death has occurred of Mr. Howard Williams, son of tho late Sir Geoi'go Williams, founder of the Young Men s Christian Association, who died in 1905. Deceased was specially concerned in the development of the association througout the Empire.