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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIII, Issue 18, 4 May 1916, Page 47

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DEATH OP MR. LISTER DRUMMOND.

5 v - The news of the death of Mr. Lister * Drummond, K.S.G., the well-known police magistrate, came as a great shock to the Catholics of London. Born, in 1856, the son of Maurice Drummond, C. 8., and the Hon.' Adelaide, daughter of the second Baron Ribblesdaje, he was' not always a Catholic, as he was received into the Church when he was 19 years ,of age. " s Four years later he was called to the Bar. He has always been a most earnest Catholic, and he founded, with* Father .-Philip • Fletcher, the Guild of Ransom, and worked most zealously to increase the scope of the Guild. . In 1892 he acted as secretary to the Evicted. Irish Tenants Commission. For four years he was chairman of the Westminster Catholic Federation, and he resigned in 1914, 7 much against the wish of the members, • but remained a member of the Council, ' and gave them the benefit of his advice. ; He was also chairman of the Central Council of the Catholic Confederation in 1913-14. He,received the Order of Knight of St. Gregory from Pope Leo XIII. in 1901. . - .

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS

Mr. Henry Hives Lee, of Wynnstay Gardens, Kensington, W., who died on December 31 last, aged 58 years, son of Captain J. Hutchinson Lee, J.P., of Balsdon, Torquay, left estate of the gross value of £87,539 3s Bd. In addition to a number of, family and personal bequests, he left:£2sooo to found a chanty to be. called ‘The Mary Florence Lee Charity,’ for ' the aged poor;' for granting small annuities to poor aged omen, to bo of any religious persuasion,, but resident within five miles of 'Boyn . Hill Church, Maidenhead, for a space of, five years or over prior to electionno annuity to exceed £25.s £IOOO to Brompton Oratory for their schools and work, and to'found a scholarship in his name. £550 to. the Servite Church, Fulham road, S.W. £IOOO to the Carmelite Church, Church street, Kinsington. £IOOO to Westminster Cathedral, to found a scholarship in his name. £IOOO to the Boy Scouts’ Association. £SOO to his wife’s cousin, Agnes E. Weston, of the Royal Sailors’ ' Rests, Portsmouth, to be devoted to some building to be.called Mary Florence Lee,’ in memory of his wife. £2OO to the Rev. Mother Superior of the Convent at Beaufort street, Chelsea, S.W., for the benefit of the convent. £BOO (free of duty) to Rev. Mother Catherine, of St. Pelagia’s Home, Bickertou road, ‘ Highgate, for the use of herself or her work. £6OO to the priest in charge of the Catholic mission, Bow Common (Church of the Holy Name), as an endowment fund. To the Prior ■of the Carmelite Church, Church street, Kensington, he also bequeathed two Sheffield plate vases for the church altar, and, subject to bequests to relatives and friends, he left the residue of his estate to the Nazareth House, Hammersmith, W., desiring .that a memorial shah be endowed in memory of his wife and himself.