OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19283, 22 September 1924, Page 7

OBITUARY

GENERAL POLE CAREW,

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 19. (Received Sept. 21, at 5.5 p.m.) The death of Lieutenant-general Pole Garew is announced. —Reuter. lieutenant-general Sir Reginald Pole Carew was born at Antony, Cornwall, on May 1, 1849. Ho joined the Coldstream Guards in 1869, and served with that body till 1899. He was private secretary to Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of New South Wales, in 1876 and 1877, and acted as A.D.C. to Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, in 1878 and 1879. He acted as A.D.C. to Sir Frederick Roberts (afterwards Lord Roberts) during the Afghan War in 1879 and 1880, and in South Africa, in 1881. After acting in a similar capacity to the Duke of Connaught in Egypt in 1882 _he became military secretary to Sir Frederick Roberts in 1884, remaining in India for some six years. The deceased commanded the Second Battalion of the Coldstream Guards from 1895 till 1899. During the South African War he commanded consecutively the 9th Brigade and Guards’ Brigade and the 11th Division. For his services in that war he was mentioned in despatches twice, and was promoted to the rank of majorgeneral, also receiving the Order of Knight Commander of the Bath. He retired from tho army in 1906 with the rank of lieu-tenant-general. He was Inspector-general of Territorials in 1914, and represented the Bodmin Division, Cornwall, in the House of Commons from 1910 till 1916.

MR FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY. LONDON, September 20. (Received Sept. 21, at 5.5 p.m.) The death of Mr Francis Herbert Bradley, philosopher, is announced. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

Mr Bradley, who was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, was born in 1846. He was a son of the Rev. Charles Bradley, vicar of Glasbury,- and a half-brother of the late Dean of Westminster. He was the author of the following publications; —“The Presuppositions of Critical History,” 1874; “Ethical Studies,” 1876; “The Principles of Logic,” 1885; “Appearance and Reality,” 1893; “Essays on Truth and_ Reality,” 1914; and “The Principles of Logic Revised, with Commentary and Terminal Essays,” 1922.

MR H. G. SMITH. SYDNEY, September 20. Tho death of Mr H. G. Smith, a prominent scientist, is announced.

Mr Smith was born near Canterbury, Kent, in 1852. He arrived in Australia in 1883, and joined the staff of the Technological Museum in Sydney in the following yoa.r, holding the office of assistant, curator and economic chemist for some time. He had to his credit much valuable original work, chiefly in the field of organic chemistry, and made many original contributions to science. His principal works were: “A Research on the Australian Pines” and “A Research on the Eucalypts,” especially in regard to their essential oils, undertaken in collaboration with Mr R. T. Baker, F.L.S.