People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 3 July 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

The Earl of Abingdon celebrated his 77th birthday on May 13. Educated at Eton, he was received into the Church when 22, succeeded his father as seventh Earl in 1884, and has twice married; Mr. Andrew. Carnegie, who poses, it is said, as an American citizen, is an enrolled elector in the parish of Dornock, Sutherland, Scotland, .bio. one, who is a natural-born or naturalised citizen of .-any foreign nation, can legally be an elector in Great Britain or in any of the King’s self-governing dominions beyond the seas.

Miss M. Taylor-Green, whose picture, ‘ The Agony in the Garden,’ has attracted much attention at this year’s Academy, is a rising Catholic painter, and the art-world will probably hear more of her work. There are four Catholic Associates of ■ the Royal AcademyMr. J. H. L. Bacon, Mr. Frank Brangwyn, Mr. Adrian Stokes, and Mr. John Lavery, The Most Rev. Edmond F. Prendergast, Archbishop of Philadelphia, attained his 70th birthday on May 3. The Archbishop was born in County Tipperary and went to the United States at the age of sixteen. Since his ordination to the priesthood in 1865 his work has been wholly confined to the Philadelphia diocese. After a service of fifteen years as Auxiliary Bishop he became Archbishop of the province upon the death of Archbishop Ryan in 1911. . John Purroy Mitchell, President of the Board of Aldermen of New York, a grandson of John Mitchel, the great Irish patriot of '4B, has been appointed Collector of the Port of New York, one of the most important positions in the Government service, outside of a cabinet position. Mr. Mitchel, though quite a. young man, has achieved a reputation as a lawyer and expert on municipal and civil government and his appointment as Collector of the Port by President Wilson has been highly commended by the public generally. Among the recipients of degrees at the Presentation Day of the London University on May 7, was the Rev. Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, who was presented for tho degree of D.Sc. in Psychology. This mark of disjunction is the first of its kind ever conferred on a Catholic priest by the University, and is moreover unique 111 being the only one presented in this department of science this year. It is a fitting sequence to the Degree of Fellowship of the University of Louvain recently conferred on Dr. Aveling, the only Englishman wlm . has been thus honored by the great Belgian UniV6l Slty, 0 . L There are four Catholic Senators in the United Stages Congress—O’ Gorman of New York, Ashurst of Arizona, Walsh of Montana, v and Ransdell of Louisiana Senator James A. O’Gorman, of New York, is the senior of them.. Whilst many members of the House of Representatives have Irish names, and are of Irish parentage, only two have the distinction of being born in the Emerald Isle. These are Hon. Michael Donohue, of Pennsylvania and Hon. George F. O’Shaughnessy, ? Fhode Island. Representative Donohue was born in KilLeshandra, Ireland, in 1864, and attended the national schools, and also a private classical school in Ins native village. When 20 years of age, he obtained a teacher s certificate, and taught as principal of a national school for two years, when he resigned and went to Philadelphia in 1886. The only other Representative of the House who is a native born Irishman, Mi. O bhaughnessy, was born in Galway, 1868, and went to the United States when four years of age with his parents, who settled in .New York, where he was educated at St. Theresa’s School, De La Salle Institine, and Columbia College Law School. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1889.