OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 14

OBITUARY.

THE REV. G. F. GRACE. News has been received of the death in England on Monday of the Rev. Georgo Frederick Grace, vicar of Alford, Sussex, in his 70th year. Mr. Grace was horn in 1362 at Pukawa, the mission station which his father, the Rev. T. S. Grace, had established some nine years earlier on the shore of Lake Tanpo. As a small child ho was carried most of the way from Taupo to the sea coast, at Matata when Mrs. Grace and her family were obliged to fleo from the region in order to avoid starvation or death at the hands of marauding Hauhaus —a fate which nearly overtook them on the way. l!e was educated at Clare College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and won his " blue ' ss a middle-distance-runner. After ordination he returned to New Zealand and served for some five years as curate tinder his brother, the late Archdeacon T. 8. Grace, in the parish of Blenheim. He then went to England and carried on organising work under the Church Missionary Society for many years. His youngest son, who was killed in the Great War, was tutor to Prince Henry, now Duke of Gloucester, and Prince George, at Sandringham. Mr. C. W. Grace, of Remuera, is twin brother of the deceased. Another brother is the Rev. A. V. Grace, vicar of Avondale. Mrs. S. J. Brittan, of Mount Eden, is a sister. MRS. I. P. TAYLOR. The death occurred last evening of Mrs. Isabel Park Taylor, of 1, Calliope Road, Devonport., in her 87 th year. Mrs. Taylor, who was the widow of the late Mr. Malcolm Mcintosh Taylor, an early settler of the Waikato district, was born in Auckland but went to live in the Waikato at the time of her marriage. On her husband's death she removed to Manaia and later to New Plymouth, where she lived with her son. For the last ten years she had lived in retirement at her Devonport home.