OBITUARY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 54, 6 March 1939, Page 7

OBITUARY

I/ORD ALLEN OF HURTWOOD. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, March 3. The death has occurred in Switzerland of Lord Allen of Hurtwood, aged 49, who was the leader of the conscientious objectors during the Great War. As Clifford Allen he suffered imprisonment, as a result of which his already weak constitution was permanently impaired. In 1931 he joined Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in forming the National Labour Party. He received a peerage in 1932. In pursuit of international reconciliation he, made a number of journeys to Germany and elsewhere on the Continent in the last few years. The late Lord Allen of Hurt wood, who was created a peer seven years j ago, had a long connection with Labour journalism, first as secretary and manager of the Daily Citizen, then as chairman of the New Leader, and later as director of the Daily Herald, with which he severed his association in 1930. In 1931 he was the author of two letters to The Times, supporting the Prime Minister and the other sections of the National Government, and opposing the policy of the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress. In 1936 he resigned from Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s National Labour Group owing to “complete disagreement over League of Nations policy.” Educated at Berkhamsted, University College. Bristol, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, he joined the executive of tihe Fabian Society. During the Greajt War he was thrice imprisoned as a conscientious objector, and was cihairman of the No-Conscription Fellowship. After the war he served as treasurer and chairman of the International Labour Party, Labour delegate to Russia, and member of the executive of the Labour and Socialist International. He was married and had one daughter. i

MR. HOWARD CARTER

LONDON, March 3. The death is announced of Mr. Howard Carter, discoverer of Tutankhamen’s tomb. The late Mr. Hovwird Carter was a distinguished archaeologist who gained world-wide fame by his association with the discovery in the Valley of the Kin.fs, Egypt, of the sepulchre of Tutankhamen, with its amazing array of beautiful treasures of ancient art. This was the culmination of the discovery by Mr. Carter of an extensive serips of private tombs between the years 1907 and 1923. They included the tomb of Amenhotep I, the Cemetery of the Eighteenth Dynasty Queensland the cliff tomb of Queen Hatshep.mt. Mr. Carter, who was a painter well as an archaeologist, was 66 years of age. Following a private education necessitated by his health, he trained under several distinguished professors. He went to Egypt in YB9O on the staff of the E.E.F. Arch Geological Survey, and two years later assisted Professor Flinders Petjrie with the excavations at Tel-el-Aniiua. As Inspector-Gene-ral of the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian Government 40 years ago, he reorganised the antiquity administrtion for Upper Egypt and installed electric lighting in the tombs of the kings. One of his first important discoveries was the Royal tomb of Mentuhetep, and it was after that that he commenced the notable series nf discoveries of private tombs mentioned above. He was the author of many publications dealing with discoveries of ancient civilisation in Egypt.