People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 2 November 1911, Page 2205

People We Hear About

Sergeant Ignatius J. O’Brien K.G., who has been appointed Solicitor-general for Ireland, was admitted „to the Irish Bar thirty years ago. He was called to the Inner Bar in 1899, was made a Bencher of King’s Inn, Dublin, in 1904, He was Commissioner of Charitable Donations and Bequests, Ireland, and has servedon the General Council of the Irish Bar. Mr. Jeremiah MacVeagh, M.P., whose contributions to the discussion on the position of Ulster in regard to its alleged opposition to Home Rule have shed much light on the methods of Union propagandists, is in his fortieth year. He is a son of Mr. Thomas MacVeagh, a Belfast shipowner, and was educated at Belfast and the Royal University of Ireland. He is a journalist by profession, and was formerly special Irish correspondent for the London Daily News. Pie has represented South Down since 1902. The death of Dr. Alexander, who was until a short time ago Protestant Archbishop of Armagh, recalls the fact that when Cardinal Vannutelli, as Papal Legate, visited Armagh a few years ago, in connection with the re-opening of the Cathedral, Dr. Alexander paid his Eminence a personal visit of courtesy at Cardinal Logue’s Palace. Dr. Alexander’s action was denounced by the bigots, but he had no difficulty in silencing their noisy protests. When Lord Aberdeen, as Viceroy, paid a visit some time ago to the North he was entertained to lunch by Dr. Alexander, at the Palace, and in the course of a subsequent public address his Excellency referred to the harmonious personal relationship existing between his host and Cardinal Logue. The “M-l u i s of Ormonde, Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, is Hereditary Chief Butler of Ireland an office which has been in the family since 1177. The Marquis is the owner of a magnificent service of gold plate, one of the heirlooms of the Ormonde family which was presented to a former Butler by Charles I. Ihe plate is only used on State occasions, and is of fabulous worth, being valued at over a million and a-quarter sterling. Among other historical relics at the Marquis s home, Kilkenny Castle, which is one of the oldest-inhabited houses in the three kingdoms, some of the rooms remaining to-day almost exactly as they were in the year 1100, are official robes which have seen service at three coronations. They were worn by Lord Ormonde’s grandmother at the coronation of Oueen Victoria, and appeared in the official picture of -the ceremony. The Right Rev. Mgr., Capel, who died in California last week, was born in England seventy-five years ago. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1858 by Cardinal Wiseman, acted as English Chaplain at Pan from 1863 to 1868, and was appointed in the i^ he P ro .-Cathedral, Kensington. It was n 1868 that he received the third Marquis of Bute into the Churcn, an event which gained for him a place in the pages of Lot hair as ‘Monsignor Catesby.’ On his return to London from the South of France where he was obliged to reside for the sake of his health, fie delivered a series of sermons and doctrinal lectures m various churches, and more especially at the Pro-Cathedral at Kensington, which soon raised him to tie foremost rank among English preachers. During several visits to Rome he also delivered courses of English sermons there by the express command of the Sovereign Pontiff. He was named Domestic Prelate to Pius IX. in 1873, in which year he founded the Kensington Public School, and was Rector of the iQ7Q ° L UniVerSlty College, Kensington, from 1874 to 1878. hor many years he had been a resident of California, being attached to the Cathedral-Sacramento, lie was the author of several works, amongst which are A Reply to Gladstone’s Vaticanism, Ought the Queen of England Hold Diplomatic Relations With Rome?