People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 4 July 1912, Page 41

People We Hear About

At the head of the Catholic Electoral League of the Argentine Republic the lievista Mariana places the names of Senator Francisco J. Beazley and,Deputy Dr. Santiago G. O'Farrell. These names have a familiar Castilian flavor. The late Sir Pyers Mostyn, whose death took place early in May, was Scotch on the side of his mother, who was a sister of the late Lord Lovat, and aunt of the present peer. The Mostyn baronetcy is of Charles ll.'s creation, and this branch of the ancient family (as well as that of Lord Vaux of Harrowden) has always remained staunchly Catholic. The late baronet built and endowed a Catholic school on his estate in Flint? shire. Catholics far beyond the district where his ancestral home was situated, indeed all over the kingdom, owe a deep debt of gratitude to Sir Pyers and Lady Mostyn for their successful efforts to save the famous shrine and well of St. Winefride at Holywell from secularisation. The Hon. Mary Petre, whose claim to the ancient barony of Furnivali, dating from 1295, and which has been in abeyance since 1777, has just been favorably reported upon by the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords, is the only sister of the fourteenth and fifteenth Lords Petre, and an aunt, therefore, of the sixteenth and present Lord Petre, who came of age last year, and is a lieutenant of the Coldstream Guards. And now, by virtue of the favorable recommendation of the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords, King George will, in accordance with precedent on such recommendation, call out of abeyance the more than 600-year-old barony of Furnivali, in favor of the Hon. Mary Petre, who will rank in her own right as Baroness Furnivali. The Petre family is one of the great Catholic families of England. Although lists of leading Catholic writers qualified to form an Academy are very frequently made up abroad, we have yet to see a list of American eligibles (says an American exchange). We suggest the following names for an American Catholic Academy:—Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Spalding, Father Hudson, C.S.C., Mgr. Shahan, Father Copus, S.J., Frank H. Spearman, Father Coppens, S.J., Katharine Conway, Eleanor Donnelly, Katharine Bregy, Dr. Egan, Thomas Walsh, Louise I. Guiney, Agnes Repplier, Miriam Coles Harris, Charles Hanson Towne, George Sterling, Mary Crawford Fraser, Finley Peter Dunne, Dr. O'Hagan, Father Talbot Smith, Dr. Hyvernat, Dr, Edward Lee Greene, Tom Daly, and Molly Elliott Seawall. Mr. Samuel Young's speech in the Home Rule debate is very sympathetically commented- on by the entire English press, Unionist as well as Liberal. The Daily Telegraph says: ‘One of the speakers from the Nationalist benches was a personality indeed. This was Mr. Young, the member for Cavan, whose distinction it is to be the oldest member of the House of Commons. Mr. Burt, the Father of the House, is a child to him, and he is more than four times the age of the youngest member.. Mr. Young was born in 1822, and is thus in his ninty-first year. The figures are incredible when you see his tall, straight form, and mark the firmness of his tread. With a short white beard, and white hair still plentiful, and a step that many a septuagenarian might envy, Mr. Young bears his 90 years bravely and smilingly. There are scores of men in the House who look older than he. His voice is very rarely heard, but he was listened to with great respect as he warmly denied that there was any spirit of despotism or tyranny among the Catholics of Ireland, or any desire to put down the Protestant minority. Counsels of peace and amity fall appropriately from the lips of Nestor, and peace and reconciliation were Mr. Young’s theme. Friends and foes alike vied in giving him a great reception.’ The writer has, however, omitted the very relevant fact that Mr. Young is himself an Ulster Protestant.