THE OBITUARY OF THE YEAR.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 16710, 22 May 1874, Page 2

THE OBITUARY OF THE YEAR.

The obituary of the year how drawing to its close lias been marked by an unusual number of great names, of i men eminent .in every profession, and whose reputation may be fairly described as world-wide. Early in January the Emperor Napoleon passed away in the little village of Chiselhurst, at the age of 65, while still more recently, on the 29th October, another European monarch, King John of Saxony died at ihe age of 70. Among our own nobility we find the names of Lord Lytfcon, better known by his family name of Bulwer, the great novelist; of Lord Majoribanks (Mr. Robertson), a peer of a few days only, who died on the 19th of June, aged 77; of the ex-Lord Chancellor Westbury, whose death was announced in the Monday's papers with that of Bishop. Wilberforce, although he died one day later, the Bishop having died on Saturday evening, the 19 th of July, and Lord Westbury on SiHKtoy, the 2(Jth;. of Lord Wolverton, better known as George Carr Glyn, the eminent banker and a former Chairman of the London and JS Torth- Western Kailway; of Lord De la Zpuche, well-known in the records of Eastern travel; of the Earl of Hardwicke, who died on the 17th of September at the age of 74; of Lord Delawarr; one of the three Army Purchase Commissioners, who committed suicide in the month of ipril; and of Viscount Osjungton, the late' Speaker of

the House of Commons. ' The lower < I louse of the Legislature has lost some of its most useful if not its' most distinguished members.—-Mr Graves, the member for Liverpool, whose sudden death at the Euston Hotel on the 18th January, caused much regret among'his coastitueuts ;Mr " Lowry-Corry, a former First Lord of the Admiralty, and Colonel French, who died within two days of each other, on the 4th and 6th Martsh, and each of whom had rendered upwards of 40 years' service' at St. Stephen's; Sir William Tite, 0.8,, F.R.S., the eminent architect; Sir David Salomons, Blr Gladstone's colleague ■ at Greenwich; Dr. Donald Dalrymple, whose death, following that of Sir William Titc, deprived Bath of both its members in the courso of five months ; Mr Thomas Baring; Mr Gore*Langton; and only a few days since, Mr Winterbotham, the Senior Under-SecreWy of State for the Home Department. Among scientific and learned men we, ,-■ may name Guillauma Combrose,'. the French archaeologist ; Professor Sedgwick, the English geologist; Sir Frederick Madden, of the British Museum; Professor Partridge, the surgeon ; Christopher iianstoen, the Danish astronomer ; Baron yon Liobig, the German chemist; Dr. Bonce Jones, the physician; Mr. .Arrowsmith, the geographer, who reached the age of 83 ; Mr. John Stuart Mill, who died' at Avignon on May 9th, aged 67 ; Emanuel Dcutch, the celebrated Hebrew scholar; Dr. Brandis, the chief authority on ancient metrology, who died at the early age of 42 ; Dr. Otto Ohermeier, a veritable martyr to science, who died at Berlin, aged 31, from poison, which lie injected into his own veins from a cholera patient; Professor Tedlehenko, the Prussian- naturalist, who died on the Col dv Gcant; Professor Donati, the astronomer; Dr Ivfelaton, the French surgeon; and Sir Henry Holland, the English physician. Art has to mourn some of the oldest professors: Eobert Graves, A.8.A., the engraver; Charles Lucy, the historical painter Marstrond, the Danish painter; Henry-Shaw and S. S. Teulon, architects ; Antoine Chintreuil, the French landscape painter 1; Binaldo Kinaldi and Hiram Powers, the sculptors; and lastly, our own great painter, Sir Edwin Landseer. The deaths among the clergy include the name of Dr Wilberforce, already mentioned ; Dr Mcllvaine, an American"' prelate, whose body rested in Westminster Abbey on its • way from Florence, where he died on the J2th March, to Ohio, his diocese; Pro- ' ■fessor, Ogilvie and Dr John Wilson, of Oxford ; Dean Gamier, of Winchester; Mr. Upton Eichards, the vicar of All Saints, Margaret-street; Mr Venn, of the Church Missionary Society; Archdeacons Hose, Pollock and Sandford; Dr Ewing, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles; Dr Guthrie, a distinguished minister in the Scotch Free Kirk, and eminent as a philanthropist; Dr Candlish, another well-known Scotch divine; Thomas Jackson, the patriarch of the »Wesleyan Methodists; and Mr Baptist ISToel. Musicians have the talented amateurs Prince Poniatowski, D. Piercon, Thomas Oliphant, and I. L. Ellerton; and among the profession Adolphe Fdtis; Dr J. L. Hopkins, or-' ganistto the University of Cambridge* Hainl, the Parisian chef d'orcJiestre] Ferdinand David, the Leipzig concertnieister; Frank Mori, the song-writer; Charles Bridgeman, the patriarch of English organists, who had played for eighty-one years at All Saints, Hertford ; and Hellmesberger, the popular Viennese violinist. In the le:gal profession the losses have not been so heavy. Among the most noticeable .names on our list after Lord Westbury are the Eight Hon. Stephen Lushington, Baron Channel, Sir John Wickens, Sir William Bovill, and Chief Baron Pigott, of the Irish Bench, • whose death is only just announced. To this roll we might add many more names I eminent in various other ways. We may. briefly mention Count Bernstorff,' ; Charles Knight, the pioneer of cheap literature; Ame le Thierry, the historian: General Sir .Richard Church; the Countess Guiccioli; M. Girardin, the Vice-President of the French Assembly; Henry William Wilberforce, one of the earlier perverts from the English Church; Chief Justice Chase, of New York; Alessandro Manzoni; Clara Mundt' Admiral McClure, and William Charles Macready, allnames more or less known to fame. In a long list of eminent persons such as that from which we havo selected these names, it is worthy of note r that it is almost the exception to find any ' one whose age is returned as under 50, the average being about sixty, while many of tho hardest workers and thinkers who have passed away during 1873, have reached 70, 80, and some even 90 years. —Pall Mall Gazette.