OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2541, 26 November 1902, Page 21

OBITUARY.

LONDON, November 17. Mr George A. Henty, the author, is dead ; aged 69 years.

[Mr George Alfred ffenty was horn at Trumpington, Cambridge, on the Bth of Decoinbev, 1832. He was educated at Westminster and Cams College, Cambridge. He went to the Crimea in the Purveyoi's Department of the Army, but was invalided home, then promoted to the rank of purveyor, and sent out to the Italian Legion. At the end of the war he was in charge of Be.f ast, aud afterwards of Portsmouth districts. He resigned his commission, and was for some years engaged in mining operations in Italy, etc. He became, in 1866, special correspondent of the Standard, was through the Austro-Italian, jTranco-Gcrna-n, and Turco-Servian wars, Abyssinian and Ashanti expeditions, and was with Garibald* in the Tyrol, etc. His 70 books for boys cover nearly every knqwn period in ancient and modern history, and vere a source of delight to tens of thousands the world over. In addition, he was the author of several more serious works and novels.]

November 18. The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes died of apoplexy.

[The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, M.A., London, a celebrated Wesleyan preacher, was bom in 1847, at Carmarthen, South Wales, and is the son of the late Mr John Hughes, surgeon-coroner, senior magistrate, chairman of School Board, etc., in Carmarthen, who died in 1897. He was educated privately, and afterwards attended lectures at University College, London, and at the Theological College of the Wesleyan Methodist Chinch, at Richmond, SuTrey, where Dr Moulton was his tutor. His first appointment was to Dover :n: n 1869. He remained there, and at every other place to which he was appointed, for ihe three years permitted by the itinerancy law of his Church. His successive appointments were Dover, Brighton, Stoke-Newington, London; Mostyn road, London; Oxford, and Brixton Hill. At the conclusion of his three years at Brixton Hill he wai appointed superintendent of the West London Mission, which conducts services in St. James's Hall, Prince's Hall, Wardour Hall, and Cleveland Hall, and has a centre of social philanthropy, in Lincoln House, 60 Greek street, Soho square; a residence of young men at Wiclrf House, Fitzroy square; and a sisterhood in Katherine House, Montague street, Russell square. During 1888 he joined in the eclucation controversy which arose m relation to the majority report of the commission. He published, in 1898, " Social Christianity," whirh went through several editions, and " The Philanthropy of God" in 1890. Other workd from his per. are "Ethical Christianity," " Essential Christianity," and " The Atheist Shoemaker." In 1892 he came prominently forward at the " Review of the Churches" Conference at Grir.deiwald, when his remarks on possible reconciliation between English Dissenters and the Church of England led to much discus«ion. He was present at the conferences at Lucerne in 1893. He was editor of the Methodist Times, the most influential Methodist newspaper ; was an active total abstainer and vice-president of the United Kingdom Alliance. He took a prominent part in the Social Purity movement, was a permanent member of the Methodist Conference, and si leader of the Forward movement, which aims at the promotion of social as well as individual salvat ; on. He was) president of the Wesleyan Conference, 1898-90.]

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