A SUDDEN CALL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 75, 5 May 1914, Page 7

A SUDDEN CALL.

REV. C. SILVESTER HORNE DEAD. CLERIC AND POLITICIAN. By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyrigh/1. (Eeceived May 5, noon.) OTTAWA, May 4. The Rev. Silvester Home, M.P., has died suddenly aboard a lake steamer. LONDON, May 4. The newspapers express regret at the

Rev. C. Silvester Home's sudden death at Toronto. They pay tributes to his strenuous life's work. [The Rev. C. Silvester Home was a rather notable figure in the House of Commons, in which he sat as Liberal member for Ipswich since 1910. In addition to his Parliamentary life, he was Congregational minister at Whitefields Church, Tottenham Court Road, London. He was the son of Mr Charles Home, a journalist, of Shropshire, and was born in 1865. He was educated at Newport Grammar School and Glasgow University, and was an M.A. of Oxford University. In 1892 he married Miss Katharine Cozeus-Hardy, eldest daughter of the Hon. the Master of the Rolls (Sir 11. H. Cozens-Hardy), and during the years from 1889 to 1903 he was Congregational Minister at Kensington. The late Mr Home has also been chairman of the London Congregational Union and chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. Pressure of his Parliamentary and clerical work has to some extent hindered him from writing, but he was the author of several well-known works, the more notable of which are "A Popular History of the Free Church," "Nonconformity i» the Nineteenth Century," and "The Ministry and the Modern Church."]