People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 6 July 1911, Page 1257

People We Hear About

. Dr. Maurice Francis Egan left the United States for his post 111 Copenhagen on May 15. He was offered diplomatic promotion by President Taft, but he preferred to stay at Copenhagen, where he has been since 1907. The London Daily Mail says that Mr. P. O’Connor, of J.ippoTciiy, believed to be the tallest man in - Ireland, ' was attracted to Loudon by the demand for tall men in connection with the festival of Empire. Ho is 20 years old, and is over eight feet high, . The death is announced of Mr. Henry Francis Slattery, chan man of the National Bank of Ireland, and chairman also of the Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Railway Company. Mr. Slattery -was one of the foremost men in Irish commerce, and had also some commercial interests in ales. He died rather suddenly at Marlow aged 78. r j three months’ old son of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Dublin, whilst in London with his parents, was presented with a special cup by the members of the Women s Social and Political Union in commemoration of the visit. Jhe Lord Mayor went to London for the purpose or presenting a petition from the Corporation in support of Woman’s Suffrage at the Bar of the House of Commons.

Persons from all sections of the United States and of all creeds are contributing to the Cardinal Gibbons’ memorial hall fund, with which will be erected at the Catho!l c j: diversity, . Washington, a building to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his Eminence's ordination to the priesthood and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the bestowal upon him of the red hat.

Sir J. G. Ward, Bart., Prime Minister of New Zealand accompanied by Lady Ward and their son and daughter, was present the other day at a concert ghten by the Irish Club, London. Amongst those who had the honor of meeting them during the evening were several members of the Irish party.

Mr. John P. Nannetti, twice Lord Mayor of Dublin is the son of an Italian artist who settled in Dublin. Having no great desire to become a painter, the young man entered the employ of a Dublin newspaper, and served his apprenVi C t> P £i a , P ru ‘ ter - While so working he was elected M.l . for College Green. He has for the past quarter of a century taken an active part in the civic life of the city. rm • - tl,e a PP ointme »t of Mr. T. F. Molonv, K.C. as 1 bird Serjeant, the Irish Law Officers of the Crown (says the London Tablet) for the first time in the history of the United Kingdom, become Catholic to a man—a proud professional preferment when the proportion in Ireland of Catholic lawyers (perhaps not more than a third of the whom) is borne in mind. Mr. Redmond. Barry heads the hst as Attorney-General, followed by Mr. Charles O’Connor as Solicitor-General. The King’s Advocate-General is Mr. Stephen Ivorian, K.C., while Mr. Mori arty and Mr, J. U linen are hirst and Second Serjeants respectively. The new Serjeant-at-Law is in his forty-sixth year, and was the Senior Moderator - and Gold Medallist of his year at 'r "i UV m , was also a Common Law Scholarship at the Middle temple, for he followed up his Irish ‘call’ by an English one. Mr. Serjeant Molony’s name will be remembered among Parliamentary candidates at the last election when he stood as a Liberal in the West Toxteth Division. * Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, who is noted as a novelist lias also acquired farad as an orator, and is considered by many (says the Catholic Weekly) to be the most po\i emu preacher in London. In the books which he has written, b ather Benson has shown a remarkable fertility of mind, and a comprehensiveness of imagination. He was born at Wellington College in 1871, the fourth son of the late Archbishop Benson, of Canterbury. Educated at Eton and trinity College, Cambridge, he took Anglican Orders and field curacies in East London and at Kemsing. He joined the Anglican Community of the. Resurrection, Mir- ■ ’ ’ "d*- s received into the Church five years later —in 1903—at Woodchester Priory, and was ordained in Rome in the following year ‘ Since Tobie Matthew, son of the Archbishop of \ork, became a Catholic in 1606, probably no son of an Anglican Archbishop, other than Father Benson, has joined the “ Italian Mission (as Archbishop Benson lightly named it),’ says the Catholic Who's Who and certainly none has done so with so high a sense of responsibility and so entire a devotion of his time and interests to the service of the Church. As a literary man he has eclipsed his brothers, Mr. A. C. Benson and the author of Dodo, and that his is a pen of suggestive power is shown in The Light Invisible, By What Authority? The King s Achievement, Lord of the World, The Conventionalists Ihe Sentimentalists, The Necromancers, and other works of which his astonishing fecundity allows ua to say that they are almost too numerous to mention.’