ABOUT PEOPLE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12244, 16 February 1918, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE.

A ued-known newspaper baronet in \l p H uh U1 ' 3 M 18 Sil " Henr .V Dalziei, i evn . U’f’’ hn mana K ] ng director of Rejnoldss newspaper. Sir Henrv is one of the few members of the. House of Commons who have sat continuously lor the same constituency for a quarter of a century. He was first elected in 1892 mC 'i i or ° r K { rk 1 c J nld y Burghs, in 18J2, and has since held it with ease TCi' 1 * i/* joiners. The member for Kiikcaldy Burghs has won a reput.aUon for his keen and critical questions rn the House, and he has taken a prominent part in debates. H e L, knighted in 1908.

Bold H J“eh Cecil, who has been made a 1 my Councillor, is the fifth son of ho late Marquis of Salisbury, ami hj been a member of the House of Commens since 1895, though not cmitSon.,h, for after he had ceased to reoreBent Greenwich in 190H he waited four 3ears before he was elected for another seat. He re-entered the House in 1910 as one of the members for Oxford University ot which he is a distinguished giaduate. Lord Hugh is a lieutenant in the Royal Hying Cqrps, and for a considerable period during the war his military duties were responsible for his infrequent appearances in the House of Oommons. Latterly he has been more constantly in attendance, and his recent speeches on the Electoral Reform Bill were m his most brilliant debating stylo.

Mr William Hart Bennett, who has been appointed Governor of the Colony H ° n^ s - entered the Colomnl OJSce in 18(8, and six years later wont to Cyprus, where he filled various posts in the administration, including those of assistant-secretary t 0 the Government and membercof the Executive Council. In 1900 he was promoted to the la Ik lands, as Colonial. Secretary, and afterwards occupied a similar position in the Bahamas, acting as Governor of the Falklands and of the Bahamas on many occasions.

Dr Hensley Henson, Dean of Durham who has been appointed Bishop ot Hereford, in succession to Dr PoA. cival, is a native of London, and has l just entered his fifty-fifth ,vear. Ho acted as head of Oxford House, in Bethnal Green, m 1888, and was afterwards appointed Vicar of Barking. From 1902 to 1912 ho was Canon of Wcstmm&ter and rector of St Margarets. In the latter year ho was appointed Dean of Durham. H 0 j s a pieacher of the broadest views, and has taken part in church work outside the Anglican Communion. Two notable instances of this may he recalled. The first was the incident in 1909, when he was invited by ]>;• Jowetfc to conduct the anniversary service at the Digbeth Institute, in Birmingham, in defiance of the Bishop ol Birmingham s inhibition. Proceedings were begun against him in the Court of Arches, but the Bishop dropped them. Hie other instance was, in March last, when he preached both morning and evonlncc at t.Ka City Temple.