PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 70

PERSONAL NOTES.

— Professor Arthur Herbert Church, who ha* been Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Academy of Arts since 1879, is one of the chemists, who ha\ c added new minerals to our knowledge. Ho discovered turacm, an animal pigment containing 7 per cent. of metallic copper, and Clrarchito, a native cerium phopphate, etc. In 1898 he was elected president of the Meteorological Society. He was 68 on June 2.

— Most people imagine that Lord Wolseloy, who completed his fc'xly-ninth year on •Tune 4, is an Irishman A.s a matter of faofc the ex-Commander-in-Chief, although born in the Emerald Isle, belongs to an ancient Stafford*hne family. Lord Wolseley ha» probably been in more engagements than any other general, for since entering the army in 1852 he lias yerved in Burma, India. China, Canada, Ashant&e, Egypt, and final'y the Soudan,

— Colonel Emilius Hughe* joined the Commissariat Department in 1862 arrl served in the .South African war of 1878-79, while in the Zulu campaign ho was in commissariat charge with Sir Evelyn Wood's flying column In the Egyptian Expedition of 1882 he scived a<= somoi commissariat officer of the soeond division, including the battle of Tel e-l-Kehir. and leceived the medal with fla^p, and t)<o bronze star, while with the fore n up the Kilo he occupied a fimilar pcsi t ion : for ln« services then he was mentiorirfl in the de-=patfhes and promoted col'-'K-l. He wa= 58 on June 6.

— Sir Howard Vincent, the Senior Depntylirut^nant of London, who vai 53 on May 31. I'<ii lwl a varied rareor. for, brtrinninf* a^ ,-in Piisi(jn in the Royal Welsh Fueilic-g in IR6B. ho brrmiie a harrHW in 1876. Two vcar- Liter l;o iu< DirfK'tor of Criminal Invent ipration<, of tl.f Metropolitan Police, ?n office which he hflrl until 1854. In the lie \t yrar ho evtpr'c! Parliament as member for Central RV-rn^M, and has represented that f ever pinc^. For spiral yonrs h^ wni a member of rli<» L<ondon County Council, and at the beginning c.f the South African -n ar he \rent to the front

—Mr Frankfort Mooro. the popular ncnplint, who mrhrd lii- forty ■-'•vpnth year in May. if a native of Clontarf. Dublin, and w&2 educated at Belfast. He has been

; ' writing novels since 1875, and his productioa" is very rapid : in one year he has published as many as five books. Every line of his work, it is said, is written with a wonderful fountain pen lie possesses, and he usually ; has a few pet cats about him when he writes. Mr Moore is genial and witty in his private ' life, and does not belong to those writers who put all their light-heartedness ancf ■ gaiety into their book's, and keep none of it for the delight of their friends. _ Th© recreations of the popular writer consist chiefly in collecting antiques, and in rowing, yachting, and cricket. — Sir Herbert H. Cozens-Hardy's journey to the Appeal Court wa» extraordinarily i swift. Born in Norfolk, in 1838, he was not made a judge until 1899, though ho had beer* a Q.C. since 1882. But be gave such abundant evidence of his fitness for any judicial I position that might be offered to him that he was at once marked • out for promotion, and he had not been thiee years oiv the bench before he stepped into the Court of Appeal. Sir Herbert is a Liberal in politics, and represented North Norfolk in Parliament foi 15 years. He was leader of the Chancery Bar, on quitting which he sacrificed an income at least double that which he now earns as a judge. j — Scindia, Maharajah of Gwalior, the chief of the princes in Central India, is one of the most enlightened rulers in the world, young as he is. He is about 25 years of age, a tall, well-s&t-up, dark-skinned, handsome fellow. He is a fine sportsman, and — for an Oriental — he is singularly enthusiastic and . , energetic in many departments of life. He has been thoroughly well trained for the - business of governing a great coimtry by a series of picked Englishmen, foremast of whom was Sir Lepel Griffin, who 'ruled Central India when Scindia was a mere • enild. Later on cam& Colonel Donald Robertson, the resident at Gwalior; the boy's own tutor, Mr Johnstone. and his medical attendant and guardian, Surgeon-colonel Crofts, a splendid specimen — mentally and physically — of the best type of Anglo-In-dian. — Although lie ha« suffered cHscomfitur<* itt his claim on the J^ord Chamberlainship of Kao;laiid. the Dulre of Atholl has much o£ dignity where-witii hr> can console himself. Besides hie dukedom, he has no fewer than five- earldoms, two inarquisates. three viscounties, and eight baronies — in all. 19 coronets. Contrasted with the Duke of Somerset, tvlio is eeooud on the ducal roll, lie is fortunate, for his firace of Somerset has bufc one other title besides hie dukedom, and that one of "the lowest rank in the peerage. There is no other duke in the United Kingdom whose eldest son's title would bo only that of a baron. And yet the Duke of Somerset has only his Grace of Norfolk as his superior in ducal rank. 1 — The Chief of the Court of Appeal is Sir Richard Henn • Collins, whose official title is that of the Master of the Rolls, ono ; which is as eagerly sought after in th© world of law a.s even that of the Lord Chief Justice of England. The salary of the Master of the Rolls is the handsome one of £6009 per annum ; • that, of his colleagues a thousand pounds less. Sir Richard, who is an' Irishman, and the foii of an eminent Varrieter, was appointed to his present position last year, and as ZU aster of the Rolls go is a comparatively young man, for he i= not. ye-t 62. His lordship was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and while at the Bar waa in immense request, not only as a Q.C but as a junior a? well. He is a Privy Councillor, and took his Feat on the judicial bench, in 1891. Sir Richird is an ardent sportsman, being equally proficient at e.vciing, golf, and fishing. II» is also a capita! phot. — Perhppa the most self-effacing l'ndge on the bench is Sir Roland B "Vaughan Williams. With Sir Roland Williams legal distinction is hereditary, for his father wa= aVo a lude^e Ylo is 64 vpir= of ape., and was rrlucated at Oxford Called to tho bar a l yefira J apo, he waF contpnt to practise for 28 venra before taking Eilk. He became a Q.C. in ]389 and was elevated to thf bench a year later. and has boon in the Court of Apneal for close upon five vrars. As an administrator of justice Sir Roland has few equals. Absolutely fearless, he has ber>n a thorn in the side of many an unscrupulous city man. In tho Comran'i"! Windinß-im Court, o-cr which ho presided, he applied the cold douche to rnltrn rompany promoters with Buoh effect thnt dozens of professional swindlers actually trird to become honest. Of simple tast©?. Sir Rolanel- is one of the most charmine of men. His ririnjcipal hobby is fanning The. produce of hi<s farm is =old iv the. ordinary way. Sir Roland entering into pve-ry detail connected with the management and r'ipriOFal of stock with the utmost zest. Of a morninc he rnav sometimes be «t»en drivinc to the railway station in one of his own milk mrt".