OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 19897, 16 June 1926, Page 5

OBITUARY

SIR HENRY MORRIS. London, June 14. The death is announced of Sir Henry Morris, the noted surgeon, aged eighty-two. —A. and N.Z. Sir Henry Morris was born on January 4, 1844. He was president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1910 to 1912, and president of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1906 to 1909. He was founder and vice-president of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and lecturer on surgery at the Middlesex Hospital. He was examiner in surgery, University of London, and in anatomy, University of Durham. He was also chairman of the Court of Examiners R.C.S. for six years. He was the author of numerous medical and surgical text books. LORD DUNRAVEN. London, June 14. The death of Lord Dunraven is announced. Lord Dunraven was born in 1841, and was educated at Christchurch, Oxford. He was war correspondent to the Daily Telegraph in Abyssinia in 1867, and in the Franco-Prussian War and Siege of Paris. He was chairman of the House of Lords Committee on Sweating in 1888 and 1890, and chairman of the Irish Land Conference from 1902 to 1903. He twice built yachts for sailing competitions with the United States, and purchased and fitted out as a hospital transport carrier the S. Y. Grianaig in 1914, and was a honorary Captain of the R.N.R. MR J. C. MARTIN. $ Special to the Times.) Auckland, June 15. After sketching the brilliant legal career of the late J. C. Martin, a former Supreme Court Judge, advice of whose death was received on Monday, the New Zealand Herald says:—Nothing had for him so much attraction during his long sojourn in the North as the early history of the Bay of Islands. In this he became well versed and was never happier than in research leading to the elucidation of some moot point in a Maori story or in the records of the early European occupation of the Bay. Occasionally he was induced to come from. his seclusion to conduct a difficult case in the Supreme Court, his vast and ready store of legal knowledge and his great forensic ability making him still a very effective counsel. His conduct of the Gunn case in Auckland as acting Crown Prosecutor has often been cited as his most able achievement and will doubtless have enduring fame among legal practitioners as a model of the unravelling of intricacies in the interests of justice. Naturally his aid was often sought by correspondence in complicated cases for he retained to the last his penchant for legal problems.