EMINENT NEW ZEALANDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20323, 2 August 1929, Page 14

EMINENT NEW ZEALANDER.

SIR W. MARRIS' NEW POST. HEAD OF ARMSTRONG COLLEGE. The Council of .Armstrong College, Ncw-castle-on-Tyne, has appointed Sir William Sinclair Marris, K.C.5.1., K.C.1.E., Member of the Council of India, and late Governor of the United Provinces, to be principal of the college in succession to Sir Theodore Morison, who was appointed in. 1919.

Armstrong College is to be congratulated on obtaining for its new principal a, man who is both a scholar and a wiso and trained administrator, says the Timeis. In these qualifications he resembles hiss predecessor, Sir Theodore Momon, wfioso sympathy, also, with the kind of service that a university can render to an industrial area ho fully shares. Both in the opportunities which it offers to the abler children of the working classes and in the various applications of science to industry, Armstrong College has already made itself a notable position on Tyneside. Sir William Marris, who is 55, was born in New Zealand and educated' at Wanganui College, Canterbury College arid Christ Church, Oxford, and went to India as a civilian in 189-5. His promotion was rapid, and after the South African War he was lent to the Transvaal Government. Returning to India he jie< came successively Home Secretary, Governor of Assam, and Governor of the United Provinces. Finally, last year, he was appointed a Member of the Council of India, as Sir Theodore Morison had been more than 20 years before. Sir Wil, licini had much to' do with t.'ne sbaning of tho present constitution in India. He is the author of verse translations of Horace. j» Catullus and the Odyssey.