People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1912, Page 41

People We Hear About

Hon. Henry Edmund Talbot, son of Lord Edmund Talbot, and nephew of the Duke of Norfolk, has been appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of Connaught, Governor-General of Canada. " This is the first appointment of a Catholic to such a position. v Of the three hundred and ninety-seven members of the German Reichstag, one , hundred and seventy-nine are Evangelicals, and of these one belongs to the Centre Party. The Catholics number one hundred and thirty, and eighty-nine of them are members ,of the Centre. Sixty-nine members do not belong to any Church. The Jewish members number seven. The Right -Rev. , Dr. Robert Browne, Bishop of Cloyne, who recently gained such a ‘remarkable victory in the law courts against a Scottish paper which made serious charges of bigotry against him, is a native of Charleville, County Cork, Cloyue. diocese has its, headquarters at Queenstown. The beautiful cathedral which greets the eye as one steams up Cork Harbour, is Bishop Browne’s seat. Dr, Browne was educated at Maynooth, and prior to his consecration, over 17 'years ago, he was president of that institution. . a ‘ ‘ ; . 5 The reason why Father Vaughan is an effective orator (says the Philadelphia Ledger) is partly that; his speech is as clear as a pane of glassif he uses a long word of Latin origin there is*a reason. An audience does not hungrily wait : upon the utterance :of one whom it does not understand. The talker who drives home to men’s hearts is he who puts his meaning in such terms that the slowest and the dullest cannot miss it. He does not use ten words when one will do.’ Lady Wentworth is one of three English Catholic peeresses in their own right. The two others are Baroness Herries (Duchess of Norfolk) : and Baroness Beaumont, who will be one of the debutantes of the coming season. Baroness Wentworth is the only child of the second Earl of Lovelace and 13th Baron Wentworth, and is a great-granddaughter of Lord Byron. She is the author of Fair Children: Love Greetings to My Tiny Friends, a delightful little' volume of verse about children, written with a charming naivete proper to the theme. • Major-General Luke O’Connor, V.C., C. 8., who has celebrated his eighty-first birthday, won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Alma, : and is the only living Victoria Cross man who has risen from the rank of private to that of general officer, y A member of one of the oldest and most respected of-Roscommon families', he was born at Elphin in 1832) and ; began a military career, which has turned out to be so distinguished, in 1849, in the Royal' Welsh - Fusiliers. He , was at the Relief of Lucknow in the Indian Mutiny, and was pro-' moted Brevet Lieut.-Colonel in the Ashantee Expedition in 1873. In 1887 he retired with the rank of Major-General. ’ . j-•' ■ . . , Colonel P. A. Kenna, ; V.C., formerly of the 21st Lancers, will succeed Colonel. Sir L. -Rolleston ini the command of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade (Territorials). Colonel Kenna is an old Stony hurst boy, and is 49 years of age. . He is one of the finest polo players in the army, a good cricketer, and a fine horseman and huntsman. He Has the double distinction of the V.C., won in the famous Lancers’ charge at Omdurman, and the decoration of the Royal Humane Society for saving the lire of a drowning man. Colonel Kenna has been married twice. He was a bridegroom and widower within a few weeks. his bride a , daughter of the seventh Earl of Abingdon, dyhm of typhoid. fever almost on the honeymoon. Later he married Miss Angela Hibbert, daughter,of the late Mr. Hubert Hibbert. The Colonel was .closely related to the late Cardinal-Archbishop of Sydney. *