People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 16 November 1916, Page 41

People We Hear About

The Marchioness of Bute celebrated her birthday quietly on August 19. A daughter of Sir Henry Bellingham, she was married to the Marquis of Bute in 1905. There are four sons and two daughters of the marriage, and Lady Bute, ,who has strong ideas on the upbringing of children, has introduced a good deal of Spartan simplicity into their training. In the country they run around without shoes or stockings, and it would be difficult to find a healthier or handsomer set of children. Lord Bute enlisted as- a private early in the war. Dr. Charles G. Herbermann, of New York, one of the leading Catholics of the United States, .scholar, writer, and editor-in-chief of The Catholic Encyclopedia, died on August 24. aged 76. He was a native of Germany. He was president of the United States Catholic Historical Society about 19 years and a member of the Catholic Club and its president one term. His Holiness Pope Pius X. conferred on him the decoration of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice and, at the request of Cardinal Parley, made him a Knight of St. Gregory the Great. In 1913 he was awarded the Laetare Medal. The new president of St. Edmund's College, Ware, the diocesan seminary for Westminster, England, has been appointed in the person of Dr. Burton, 'vicepresident. He succeeds Mgr. Bernard Ward, who was a brother of Wilfrid Ward. Dr. Burton entered the priesthood comparatively late in life, being educated for law and practising for a time as a solicitor. Most of his priestly career has been spent in teaching and in writing. He has made his own the study of the penal times in England and has published a number of interesting books on the men and manners of those times, editing old works of priests who suffered for the faith' and unearthing heroic lives which went to feed the lamp that never was extinguished. Only twice in its history lias the British Association chosen leading statesmen as presidents. Both, by something more than a coincidence, perhaps, were on the same side of politics, they were uncle and nephew, and one was at, the time and the other had been, a First Minister of the Crown. In 1904 Mr. Balfour, when ho was Prime Minister, presided at the Cambridge meeting of the association, and ten years previously Lord Salisbury had been president of the Oxford meeting. The Hon. Charles A. Parsons, who was chosen president the other day, is an eminent inventor, and just as successful in commercial life. He won fame and fortune by inventing the turbine engines; and he belongs to a family long settled in Ireland and prominently identified with scientific studies. The 'Rosse telescope' at Birr Castle was for many years the most notable instrument of the kind in the world. A famous member of the French Academy and one of the. most prolific writers among the immortal forty has just died an edifying death. This is Monsignor Faguet, whose health had for some time previously given cause for anxiety. The distinguished literateur was an enthusiastic contributor to the Catholic journals. When he felt death approaching he put his affairs in order, classified his books and manuscripts, and prepared his soul for the great ordeal. He was attended by Mgr. Herscher, who gave him all the last rites of the Church and assisted him to the end. The Archbishop of Leodicia is writing a commemorative pamphlet on the man who was without doubt the most fruitful writer of our day. His obsequies took place at the Church of St. Etienne du Mont, before a numerous and distinguished gathering. The, President and the Minister of Public Instruction were represented.