PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 28 July 1921, Page 37

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

Remarkable scholastic honors were recently won by a nun at the Leeds University. Sister Mary Jerome, who is a member of the Sisters of Mercy, Hull, England, and has been attending Leeds University, won first place on the honors list in the histcry examination for the B.A. degree. The honors which this religious won are pa ticularly rotable in view of the subject covered. In announcing the result of the examination, the professor warmly congratulated her, and especially commented on the fact that the period set for the examination test was one during which the Church of which she is a member had been in stern conflict with the leaders of the "Reformed" religion.

The death of Lady Gilbert last April removes one of the most moving and thoughtful of Irish writers, and closes a career full of devoted service to the cause of religion. She was perhaps best known as Rosa Mulholland, and was a younger sister of Lady Russell of Killowen. There was for a generation no more welcome contributor to the best magazines, and few writers in Great Britain and Ireland had so perfect a mastery of the rare and difficult art of the short story. She wrote some remarkable successful novels, notably The Wild' Birds of Killevy, The Late Miss Hollingford, Banshee Castle, The Squire's Granddaughters, and Marcella Grace. As mere fiction, they have all a high level of merit and interest, brilliant in character-drawing, and abounding in wit; and, unlike most latter-day fiction, they all rest on a basis of sound Catholic principle. She was less known as a poet, yet to many of us her little volume, Vagrant Verses, is a precious possession, outweighing in value many more pretentious volumes of Irish verse.

Another loss to Ireland during the last week in April has been the death of Professor William Alphonsus Scott, who held the chair of Architecture in the National University. He had won fame in church architecture, and his most notable work was the construction of Spiddal Church, in Co. Galway, a very striking building of great beauty. He was the architect of the new church to be erected at St. Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg, which it is intended to commence in the autumn of this year. He had devised a special method of transporting material from the mainland to the island. It is understood that the work will.be carried out according to his plans. The O'Growney monument, which stands in the grounds of Maynooth College, is another lasting memorial to the genius of this gifted Irishman.

The late Bishop Farrelly of Cleveland, U.S.A., had been wealthy in his own name, says' the Winona Courier. When he died, he had not a penny to bequeath in his last will. As the head of a large and wealthy diocese, the Bishop's income must have been considerable. At his death he had no debts and he had no money. In one part of the city of Cleveland there is a Latin school for boys. Out beyond there is an orphan asylum. There are other schools and charitable works in the great and bustling city. Perhaps you could learn where his money went, if you care to know. The promoters of thrift would look for a bank account and dividends accrued. There is a bank account, but it is where moth and rust do not corrode, nor robbers enter in to steal.

The funeral of the late Lieutenant-Gererai Sir John Steven Cowans, late Quartermaster General of aU Great Britain's millions of forces, was held from Westminster Cathedral recently and was attended by some of the" most distinguished of England's military, naval, and civil officials. The announcement that burial services were to be conducted in the Cathedral was the first intimation the public had that Sir John had died in the Catholic Faith. It now appears that he was received into the Church only a few days before his death. Sir John was one of the few men who was on terms of intimacy with Lord Kitchener. In the line of his duties as Quartermaster General, Sir John purchased and distributed billions' worth of supplies, including everything from tins of jam to locomotives. One of the most interesting facts revealed in the new life of Cardinal Manning by Mr. Shane Leslie is the hitherto unknown information that it was he who inspired Florence Nightingale to enter on that mission of mercy and'succor to the wounded soldiers in the Crimea which has made

her-name so famous and honored in the history of the! nineteenth century. _ He first made Miss Nightingale's acquaintance in 1847, while he was still a Church of England archdeacon.

Most Rev. John Mclntyre has been appointed Archbishop of Birmingham, Most Rev. Frederick Wm. Keating, Archbishop of Liverpool, and Very Rev. Thos. Canon Shine, Coadjutor to Right Rev. Dr. Lacy, Bishop of Middlesbrough. Most Rev. Dr. Mclntyre was born in 1855, of Irish parents, and was educated at the English College in Rome. He was a professor at Oscott Diocesan College, 1888-1912, and was appointed Canon Theologian of Birmingham in 1900. He was auxiliary to the Archbishop of Birmingham (Most Rev. Dr. Ilsley) from 1912 to 1914, and again in 1917. In 1912 Dr. Mclntyre was consecrated Bishop of Lannes, and in 1917 Titular Archbishop of Oxyrhynchus. He was rector of the English and Beda Colleges, Rome, in 1914-17, was a consuitor of the Consistorial Congregation during the same period, and a member of the Biblical Commission and of the Sacred Congregation of Religious, 1915-17. A writer of considerable gift, he is the author! of A Commentary on tthe Gospel of St. John, Most Rev. Dr. Keating, consecrated Bishop of Nottingham in 1908, was born in Birmingham in 1859. He was educated at Sedgley Park (Birmingham), Douai, and Olton Seminary. Ho was ordained priest in 1882, and was a professor at' Oakamoor, Oscott, and Olton until 1888, when he received his first pastoral charge in Wednesbury. He was administrator of St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, from 1898 to 1908, and became a member of the Chapter in 1900. The Coadjutor-Bishop of Middlesbrough, Very Rev. Canon Shine, was born in Tipperary in 1872, and was educated at Rockwell College, St. Patrick's College, Thurles, and St. Joseph's Seminary, Leeds. He was ordained in 1894, and became Administrator of Leeds Cathedral in 1908. He has been a Canon of Leeds diocese since 1914. The Bishop of Middlesbrough, Right J\ev. Dr. Lacy, who is 80, was born in Ireland.