OBITUARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19341, 29 November 1924, Page 10

OBITUARY.

THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 27. The death is announced of the Duke of Beaufort. He was born in 1847. He was not conspicuous in public life.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

MRS J. P. MORGAN. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, November 17. Mrs Frances Louise Morgan, wiclow of the elder John Pierpont Morgan, the founder of the American financial hoqse of J. P. Morgan and Company, has died at the age of 80 years. Her husband died in 1913. SIR MAURICE FTTZMAURICL. LONDON, November 18. Sir Maurice Fitzrnaurice, the well-known, engineer, is dead. Sir Maurice Fitzrnaurice had a consulting engineer’s practice which extended to eveiy continent in the world and nearly every British country. He was concerneo with building docks and harbour works atSingapore and the irrigation scheme for the Sudan Government on the Blue Nile. During the war ho was, like most other f-reat engineers, mobilised for the defence services. He was interested in the defences of London in tho days of the air raids, and he was one of the experts consulted about the drainage of the trenches on the Flanders front.