OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21934, 18 October 1934, Page 11

OBITUARY

EARL OF CORK AND ORRERY ADMIRAL SUCCEEDS TO TITLE (Received October 17, 6.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, Oct. 16 The death has occurred of the Earl of Cork and Orrery. Robert John Lascelles Boyle, 11th Earl of Cork and Orrery, was born on November 8, 1864, son of the 9th Earl and Emily, second daughter of the first Marquess of Clanricarde. He succeeded his brother in 1925. The earl in 1890 married Miss Josephine Hale, of San Francisco.

The heir to the earldom is deceased's cousin, Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley Boyle, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet. He was born in November, 1873, and trained for the Navy in the 'training ship Britannia. His mother was Lady Theresa Pepys, a daughter of the first Earl of Cottenham. Entering the Navy as a cadet in 1887, he served in various warships on home and foreign stations before attaining his lieutenancy in 1895. When in 1900 the Boxer rebellion broke out in China, the vessel in which he was serving was in Far Eastern waters. He took part in the naval operations which assisted the landing of the international army that rescued the diplomats and other Europeans besieged in Peking. Promoted commander in 1906 he was employed in the Naval Intelligence Department from 1909 to 1911 and after another period at sea received his captaincy in 1913 and was appointed naval attache at the Rome Embassy, being there when the war broke out. _ Recalled to London in 1915, Sir William was given command of the battleship Repulse and served in her in the operations of the Grand Fleet until the end of the war. His services as senior officer of the Red Sea Patrol were mentioned in despatches. After being naval A.D.C. to the King in 1922-3 he was promoted rear-admiral and served with the First Battle Squadron till 1925 when ho was given command of the First Cruiser Squadron. While holding_ that command he acted as prosecutor in the court-martial on Captain Dewar, of the Royal Oak. After a term as viceadmiral commanding the Reserve Fleet he was appointed in 1929 president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Knighted (K.C.8.) in 1931, ho was made an admiral a year later, and in April, 1933, was appointed Commanderin Chief of the Home Fleet.

MR. J. E. BRIEN

AUSTRALIAN TURF FIGURE (Received October 17, 9.35 pjn.) SYDNEY, Oct. 17 Mr. J. E. Brien, well known in racing circles, died to-day. Formerly he was the owner of the Kingsfield stud. He imported Rossendale, also Pantheon, the aire of Peter Pan,