People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 5 February 1914, Page 41

People We Hear About

There are five Catholic Governors of States under the Stars and Stripes this year. They are Glynn of New York, Dunn of Illinois, Pothier.of Rhode Island,, Monaghan of Delaware, and Walsh of Massachusetts. Dr. Guiseppe Motta, of Ticino, has been appointed Vice-President of the Swiss Confederation for the current year. He was born in 1871, is head of the Department of Finance, and a member of the Catholic Conservative Party. The will of the late Mr. Eugene O’Keefe, of Toronto, Canada, has been admitted to probate. It disposes of an estate valued at 986,304 dollars. Of this 184,776 dollars are left to charitable and educational works. A personal bequest of 10,000 dollars is left to the Holy Father. The estate of the late Mr. Patrick Ford, editor and founder of the Irish World, will not exceed £2400, according to the estimate set forth in the petition for letters of administration filed at the Surrogate Court of Brooklyn, by Robert E. Ford, eldest son of the deceased editor. The real estate is valued at £I6OO, and personal property at £BOO. We (London Tablet) regret to record that Mr, Henry Hamilton Lawless, Recorder of Great Yarmouth, died at Plowdeu buildings, Temple, at the age of 56. Hie fourth son of Mr. John Lawless, a well-known Dublin solicitor who defended the, Fenian prisoners in the early seventies, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and joined the Irish Bar in 1880. Three years later he was called to the English Bar by the Middle Temple, and joined the South-Eastern Circuit, being also a member of the Central Criminal Court and the North London and Middlesex Sessions. He was appointed Recorded of Great Yarmouth in 1909. A correspondent of the Times writes: ‘Mr. Lawless was the most genial and kindly of men, with a constant fund of Irish anecdotes which he delighted to tell in his own inimitable manner and in his own rich Dublin brogue. With regard to the appointment of the Very Rev. Dr. Harty, of Maynooth College, to the Archbishopric of Cashel, in place of Archbishop Fennelly, resigned, I think it will take the priests and people some time to get accustomed to their new pastor (writes a Dublin correspondent). For neither in person nor temperament is Archbishop Harty like his two predecessors in Cashel. Archbishop Crokc was a fiery prelate who seemed born for campaigning; Archbishop Harty is a gentle academician, who, I fear, would find a political speech in the rich vales of Tipperary, in the presence of ten thousand men, a rather embarrassing business. And Archbishop Fennelly is one of those huge, breezy men who carry everything their way by means of good humor and bubbling spirits, while the newcomer may be safely expected to accomplish ,things from his writing desk. Anyhow, the days, of fighting have ended in Ireland and peace,’ as William Redmond complains, ‘has broken out.’ The sale of the Duke of Bedford’s estates in the West Central district of London recalls the fact (says the Universe) that, in the main, the foundations of the fortunes of the Russell family were laid at the dissolution of the monasteries. John Russell, the founder of the family, owed the rise in his fortunes to an agreeable manner and to his knowledge of Spanish, He was a Devonshire gentleman, and when the monasteries were dissolved he obtained from the King a grant of the Abbey of Tavistock, and of the extensive possessions belonging thereto. This property remained in the hands of the family until quite recent years, and from it, the successors of John Russell have beenable to acquire, property which is now worth several millions, some of which property has just : passed, by purchase, into the hands of Mr. Mallaby Deeley. The property in question includes Covent Garden and other localities which bear names of historic Catholic association.