People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 17 July 1913, Page 41

People We Hear About

. On Wednesday, June 18,,, his Grace Archbishop Dunne reached the twenty-sixth anniversary of his elevation to the Archiepiscopate of Brisbane. His Grace is now in his ;: eighty-third year, and- was born in Clonmel in 1830. f Tie came to Queensland in 1863, and was for many years : parish priest in Toowoomba, and it was due to his advice that -many Catholics settled on the Darling Downs, and "became successful farmers and pastoralists. To the present day his Grace can remember with astonishing accuracy the members of his flock and their families, > and is always pleased to see them, to revive memories of the early days. /; It is not long since a visitor to the House of Lords, brought there by Mr. Hazleton, M.P., was ordered out by scandalised Black Rod because he wore a kilt. What will Black Rod say when the new Lord Ashbourne presents himself? The Hon, William Gibson, as he was until the death, of his father, habitually wears a saffron kilt, a green cloak, and no hat, as the outward and visible sign, of his deep interest in the Gaelic movement. Like Mr. Shane Leslie, he hag. left a Protestant and Unionist environment to becomea Catholic and a Nationalist— his Nationalism. is concerned,rather with language and literature than with politics. •_',,.. 7 -. . . The following appreciation of the new Minister for External • Affairs in the Commonwealth Government is from the Argus:— distinctions may be claimed by Mr. P. McM. Glynn, the new Minister for External Affairs. His friends claim that he is the most modest man who has so far .appealed in Federal politics. It may also be. claimed for him . that he was. the only truly literary style of speaker in the last Parliament; and, further, that he was the only man who had not an enemy in the House. Like Mr. Irvine,, Mr. Glynn is a Dublin Trinity College man. He took' a leading part in the Federal movement,, sat in the National Convention, and has represented South Australia in the House of Representatives since the inauguration of the Commonwealth. He is exceptionally' well read, knowing his Shakespeare and his Milton almost by heart, and having: an intimate and wide knowledge of English literature generally. His speeches; abound in apt quotations, and make 'better reading: than those of .any other man now in the Federal Parliament. His strong Celtic accent and his rapid delivery, however, make his speeches exceedingly hard for a strange ear to follow. He is an authority upon constitutional law, and a well-known lawyer of Adelaide. Mr. Glynn was born in Ireland in 1855. He was Attorney-General in the last Deakin Ministry. , One of the most interesting engagements •of the season, from the ancient descent of both the families represented, is that between Sir Joseph Doughty Tichborne, the head of a famous English Catholic family, and Miss Denise Fulke Grevilie (says the Glasgow Observer). It is a remarkable circumstance that the Tichbornes should have maintained their place in Hampshire through so many generations in view of the vicissitudes through which the family has passed] Benjamin Tichborne, M.P. for Petersfield and for Hants, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth and created Baronet by James 1., who also knighted all his four sons. ;, But the second baronet took the unlucky side in the Civil War, held Winchester Castle for the King, and had' his estates sequestrated. To his successor fortune was again unkind, for he was suspected of complicity in the Oates Plot and thrown into prison. In the nineteenth century came the notorious case. A ' curious circumstance about Sir Joseph Tichborne, who was born in 1890, is that he has not a single kinsman bearing his ancient name. The seventh baronet, who died in 1821, had seven sons, but only one of them left male issue, the fourth son, who succeeded eventually as tentK baronet. He was the father of the Roger Tichborne whose loss at sea caused the celebrated Tichborne Trials, and of the eleventh baronet. The. latter died three months before the birth of his son, who, in his turn/left an only child, the present baronet. •