TO-DAY IN HISTORY

Southland Times, Issue 20831, 20 July 1929, Page 6

TO-DAY IN HISTORY

JULY 20 " Born: Petrarch, Italian poet, 1304 (O.S.)> Arezzo, in Tuscany; Eusebius Renaudot, Oriental scholar, 1645, Paris; James Harris, author of Hermes, 1709, Salisbury; Auguste de Marmont, Duke of Ragusa, Bonapartist general, 1774, Chatillon-sur-Seine; Sultan Mahmoud IL, 1785; Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth, noted for his exertions in promotion of education, 1804; John Sterling, poet and essayist, 1896, James Castle, Bute. Died: Robert the Wise, King of France, 1031, Melun; Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, 1164; Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, 1332, Musselburgh; Talbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, distinguished warrior, 1452; John Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester, scholar and author, 1650, Bredon, Worcestershire; William Scrope, author of “Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing,” 1852, London; Caroline Anne Southey (nee Bowles), poetess and novelist, 1854,. Buckland, near Lymington. MARSHAL MARMONT. Auguste Frederic Louis Vicsse de Marmont was born at Chatillon-sur-Seine on July 20, 1774. The son of a soldier, he entered the Revolutionary Army in 1791. Known to Napoleon as a fellow student, he became his aide-de-camp, served in Italy and Egypt, and was made a general. He held command at Marengo and Ulm, after which from ISOS-9 he was Governor of Dalmatia, during which time he drove the Russians from Ragusa. In 1810 he took command of the French forces in Spain where, after capturing Ciudad Rodrigo, he was beaten at Salamanca. He appeared next in Napoleon’s lost battles of 1814, after which he surrendered with 20,000 men under conditions that seemed treasonable. He was honoured by the restored Bourbons whom he served after 1814 and in whose cause he became an exile in 1820. He lived at Vienna and elsewhere until his death at Venice on March 22, 1852. Marmont, who was made a marshal and Duke of Ragusa by Napoleon, wrote some volumes of Memoirs, published in 1856. SIR JAMES PHILLIPS KAY-SHUTTLE-WORTH. Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth was born on December IS, 1844. The eldest son of the first baronet to whose title he succeeded in 1877, he was educated at Harrow and London University. Entering political life he was M.P. for Hastings from 1869 to 1880 and for the Clitheroe Division of North-East Lancashire from 1885 to 1902, when he was made a baron. In Liberal ministries he was Under-Secre-tary of the India Office in 1886; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1886; and Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty 1892-95. He was chairman of the Royal Commission on Canals, 1906-11 and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee from ISBB to 1902.