OBITUARY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20891, 22 November 1937, Page 8

OBITUARY

MR R. A. MALCOLM A popular figure on concert platforms for many years, Mr Robert Andrew Malcolm, died on Saturday at his home at 25 Bishop Street, Christchurch, aged 63. He was bom on June 17, 1874, In Robert Burns’s house in Dumfries, and in the room where the great Scots poet died. He spent the first four years of his life in Dumfries and four years in Leith before his parents, brought him, at the age of eight, to New Zealand. They settled in Canterbury, where his father was headmaster successively, of the Hinds, Longbeach and View Hill schools.

After receiving his primary education at the schools at which his father was headmaster, Mr Malcolm decided to follow his father’s profession, and was appointed a pupil teacher at Marshland School in 1889. He went to the Christchurch Training College in 1894, and thereafter served as assistant master, and subsequently as headmaster, at Springston South, Sydenham, St. Albans, Kaiapoi, Temuka and Waimataitai Schools. After 42 years’ service, he retired on superannuation in 1931. As an elocutionist and humorist on the concert platform, Mr Malcolm was widely known and popular. He recently revealed that a tally which he kept over the years from 1913 to 1936 recorded that he assisted during that period in 840 entertainments and gave 2850 items. Keenly interested in ail forms of outdoor recreation, Mr Malcolm, during his teaching days, spared no trouble to coach his pupils In organised games. He was an active tennis player, and, until two years ago, a member of the United Tennis Club. He was also fond of golf, being a member of a small group of players at Hagley known as “The Lambs.” He was for many years a member and a director of the Canterbury Caledonian Society, of which he was also president for two terms, and was also a Mason and a member of the Christchurch Savage Club. While in Timaru, tn 1930, he was Great Chief of the Timaru Savage Club.

PRINCE AHMED SEIFELDIN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 19. The death has occurred of prince Ahmed Selfeldln. aged 56, a brother-in-law of the late King Faud of Egypt. He shot Faud In the neck In 1898 at a fashionable Cairo club after family discord. When he had served two years in gaol he was sent to a Sussex private asylum, where he enjoyed comparative freedom. In 1925 he escaped and lived on the Continent until “'s death.