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Death of Mr. S. Rea, The Mourne Pioneer, Twice Chairman of Board
1933

     It is with much regret we announce the death of Mr. Samuel Rea, J.P., 280 Ormeau Road, Belfast, which took place this morning in a local nursing home following an operation. His illness was of recent duration, and those who were in his company a week ago will be shocked and grieved to learn that he is no more. The deceased, who was a native of the Saintfield district and in his 74th year, occupied a leading place in the commercial life of the capital, and was a prominent figure in public affairs over a long period of years. In October 1879, he and his brother in partnership opened a shop in Cumberland Street, Belfast, in the grocery line under the style of T. & R. Rea. The premises were situate in the very heart of what were known as the Brickfields, a district lying between the Shankill and the Falls Roads. This district was but partially built up at the time, and was the scene of many a riot. Mr. Rea personally witnessed more than one conflict of the kind in the vicinity of the shop. After about ten years trading the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Samuel Rea secured an excellent site in Duncairn Gardens on the Macrory estate. He built fine, new premises, and as the district grew rapidly the trade also grew and flourished. He also built several lots of property on the Mountcollyer estate, and some years ago opened a successful branch grocery establishment there. Later still, he further extended his business by opening premises on the Antrim Road, but in 1917 he gave up the retail business and became a partner with Mr. H. Carrothers in the firm of Carrothers, Rea & Co., flour and general merchants, Victoria Street. The deceased is survived by his wife, who is a sister of Mr. W. I. Quinn, secretary of the Belfast Water Trust. Great sympathy will go out to his family in their bereavement. His eldest son is a doctor practising in London, whilst two of this four daughters are in the teaching profession. Interred at Dundonald Cemetery. The chief mourners were - Dr. S. B. Rea, London (son); Rev. George Walker, Middlesbro', and Mr. Thomas G. Moore, London (son-in-law); Mr. W. I. Quinn, O.B.E., secretary of the Belfast Water Board, and Mr. Robert Ridges (brother-in-law); Mr. W. Percy Quinn (nephew).

4th May 1933 Belfast Water Commissioners photographed at the Commons Farm, Woodburn

Members of the Water Board interested in the old water wheel at Commons Farm. From left - Mr. A. Dalzell (chairman of Works Committee), Mr. S. Rea, J.P. (chairman of the Board); Mr. J. Wilson, J.P. (chairman of Finance Committee), and Mr. J. Gerald Kennedy (deputy chairman of the Board).

Veteran Master Printer Mr. Edward Johnston

     Mr. Edward Johnston, the well-known printer, stationer, and book-seller, so long established at the premises, 3 Donegall Street, Belfast, has, we regret to record, passes away, the sad event of his death in his 87th year taking place early this morning at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Alex. M. Adams, 2 Windsor Gardens. The late Mr. Johnston, who was a native of Lisburn, and, until his demise, one of the oldest surviving printers in Belfast, serving his apprenticeship with the famous Belfast firm of Marcus Ward & Co. Later on he formed a partnership with the late Mr. Allen, who was foreman printer for Messrs. Henderson, "Belfast News-Letter," and set up in business on their own account at premises in Arthur Street. Mr. Johnston celebrated his eightieth birthday, 4th April 1924. He is survived by his wife, his daughter, wife of Mr. Alex. M. Adams; and his brother, Mr. James Johnston, with whom, as well as the other relatives, sincere sympathy will be felt in their loss. Mr. Johnston was 87 years old when he died, funeral from the home of his son-in-law Mr. Alex. M. Adams, 2 Windsor Gardens, to the City Cemetery.  The chief mourners were - Mr. James Johnston (brother), Mr. A. M. Adams (son-in-law), Messrs. Frederick Ernest, and Bertie Johnston (nephews), Rev. S. Allen, Messrs. Joseph Allen (Lisburn), George Allen (Hillsborough), John Smith (cousins.

2nd August 1931 Mr. W. J. Marshall

     A wide circle of friends not only in Belfast but throughout various parts of Ireland and across the Channel will be grieved to learn the unexpected news of the death of Mr. William J. Marshall, J.P., the well-known merchant tailor and outfitter, who for almost half-a-century conducted a successful business at 39 High Street.  Mr. Marshall, who, although in his 74th year had the complexion, physique, and energy of a man many years his junior, had gone on holiday to Harrogate a fortnight or so ago, and in the hydro town had a recurrence of a cardiac ailment which had attacked him when on a visit to the South of Ireland two years ago. His son, Dr. Robert Marshall, of College Gardens, crossed to see him, and the patient was able to return home in his company on Thursday night. On Saturday night, however, there was a severe recurrence of the malady, and in the early hours of Sunday Mr. Marshall breathed his last at his residence, 2 Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast. Mr. Marshall was a native of Carricknahorna district of Ballyshannon, where the family had been settled for over 200 years, and where his father, the late Mr. William Marshall, was a much respected figure. Mr. Marshall was predeceased five years ago by his wife, who was a daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Shaw, of Belfast, and is survived by his son already mentioned - one of the leading consultants in his profession and widely known by his work at the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Ulster Hospital for Women and Children, and by his daughter, Mrs. Martin K. Wallace, B.A., LL.B., Belfast. The deceased gentleman, who was 73 years of age, is survived by a son, Dr. Robert Marshall, and a daughter, Mrs. Eileen B. Wallace, B.A., LL.B., of Belfast.

16th January 1931  Rev. J. C. Robertson, M.A., B.D., Belfast

     We regret to announce the death of Rev. J. C. Robertson, M.A., B.D., Principal of Edgehill Theological College, Belfast, and a former President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, which took place at a nursing home in the city yesterday. Mr. Robertson had been taking an active part in the "Youth and Religion" series of special services in progress at University Road Methodist Church, but was obliged to leave Tuesday evening's meeting owing to indisposition. The ailment proved to be more serious than was at first thought, and it was deemed advisable to remove him to a nursing home, where he underwent an operation on Thursday. The deceased was the son of the late Rev. James Robertson, D.D., a greatly beloved minister of the Irish Methodist Church, and was born in 1868. He received his education at the Methodist College, Belfast; Wesley College, Dublin, and Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a distinguished graduate both in arts and theology. Entering the teaching profession, Mr. Robertson served on the staff of the Methodist College, Belfast, for a period, but in 1895 he was accepted for the Irish Methodist ministry. For two years he acted as assistant to the President of the Methodist College, subsequently rendering valuable service on the following circuits:- Wexford, Carlow, Portadown, and Kingstown. In 1907 the Conference called him to the responsible office of Tutor to the theological students at the Methodist College. On the retirement of Rev. J. W. R. Campbell, M.A., in 1920, Mr. Robertson succeeded to the principalship of Edgehill Theological College, a post which he filled until his death. His name will always be associated with the training of the future ministers of the Irish Methodist Church, a work to which he wholly dedicated his best energies. Mr. Robertson was united in marriage with a member of a well-known Southern family, Miss Giles of Enniscorthy. During his principalship of Edgehill Mrs. Robertson assisted her husband in his work by graciously supervising the house-keeping arrangements of the students' department. Sincere sympathy will be felt with her in her sad loss.

Mr. Robert Arnold, Bangor
     Mr. Robert Arnold, who died in his 76th year, at his residence, "Knocktarma," Groomsport Road, Bangor, went to Belfast as a young man from the neighbourhood of Portadown, and became well known in commercial circles. About six years ago he retired from business and went to reside in Bangor. On Thursday night, he became seriously ill and passed away on Saturday morning. Mr. Arnold was a man of very genial and kindly disposition and was a prominent member of the Methodist Church. During his long residence in Belfast, he was attached to Ormeau Road congregation and there held all the offices of the church open to a layman. By his consistent life, he commanded the confidence of his co-workers in the church and of the entire congregation. A fortnight ago he attended the Ormeau Road church at the celebration of its diamond jubilee, and was one of the speakers on that occasion. His wife, who was a Miss Mercer, of Lurgan, predeceased him about two years ago. Their sons, Mr. James Arnold, of Ravenhill Park, Belfast, and Mr. R. J. Arnold, of Bangor, are in business in the city.

4th February 1933 Mr. Bass Capper

     The passing of Mr. Bass Capper, a well-known linen yarn manufacturer, who died yesterday, aged 83 years, at his residence, "Lennoxvale," Malone, Belfast, removes a prominent and respected figure from the industry with which he was associated virtually all his life. Mr. Capper was the fifth son of the late Mr. John Capper, who commenced business in the linen yarn trade at Lurgan a long time ago, and it proved so successful that it was transferred to Linenhall Street, Belfast, where there was wider scope for its activities. That was sixty years ago, and when Mr. Capper ultimately succeeded his father, the business continued to flourish under his able direction. Of a kindly and generous nature, Mr. Capper won the confidence of a host of friends by his integrity and he always retained the respect of his employees and staff. He was recently laid aside with serious illness, and passed away as stated. He was predeceased by his wife, Miss Durant, of Manchester, who died in October last, and he is survived by a son, who is in Southampton, and two daughters, one of whom is the wife of Mr. Robert Glendinning, son of the Right Hon. R. G. Glendinning, while the other is the wife of Mr. Kenneth Moore. Another son, Mr. Bass Capper, jun., was one of the first despatch riders to leave Belfast for the Great War, being subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. While on a visit to England in 1917, he was the victim of a flying accident in England, and succumbed to his injuries.  The late Mr. Capper was one of the oldest members of the Ulster Reform Club, where he was highly popular, and he was an esteemed member of the Donegall Square Methodist Church congregation. The remains of Mr. Bass Capper were removed this afternoon for interment in the City Cemetery.

Mr. W. Knox
     The death occurred at his residence, Delhi Parade, Belfast, on Wednesday evening, of Mr. William Knox, who was a well-known figure in Coleraine, where he was formerly the secretary of the North Derry Unionist Association, secretary of the Coleraine Musical Festival, secretary of the North Derry Agricultural Association, and secretary of the Coleraine School Attendance Committee. Mr. Know, who was in his 75th year, was a native of Liscurry, Strabane. Most of his life was spent in Coleraine, where at one time he was in the drapery business, and later was engaged as a commercial agent. He was a gifted elocutionist, and his services were in great demand through-out the North-West. He was teacher of elocution in McCrea-Magee College, Derry. He is survived by his wife.

Mr. W. T. Polley
     Mr. William Thomas Polley, who was for over half a century the esteemed travelling representative of Messrs. McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, Ltd., and previously for Messrs. Marcus Ward & Co., Belfast, being formerly in business on his own behalf at Newry, passed away on Sunday at his residence, 131 University Street, Belfast. The news will be received with deep regret by his extensive circle of friends, both in business and private life. Until he was laid aside nearly three months ago by the illness which has terminated fatally, Mr. Polley had been attending to his business duties, although he had never recovered from the effects of shock sustained in a motoring accident last summer. Born in London on June 15, 1848, Mr. Polley would, had he survived, have celebrated his 83rd birthday on Monday next. In his early days he came to Newry, where for a period he was in the employment of Messrs. John Warnock & Co., printers and stationers, and later on he embarked in the same line on his own behalf. About 62 years ago he entered the service of the noted old firm of Marcus Ward & Co., discharging his duties as traveller with marked ability and energy. Sincere sympathy will be extended to the bereaved wife and family. Besides his widow he is survived by six sons and three daughters. All the members of the family reside in Canada with the exception of the eldest son, Mr. William Polley, who is a chief engineer in the Head Line of steamers, and the latter's son, William, grandson of deceased, also an officer in the Head Line. Both of these are at home from sea at present and will thus be enabled to attend the funeral. One of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Polley has been in Belfast for several weeks from Toronto and gave devoted nursing assistance during her father's trying illness.

14th March 1932 Mr. A. L. Donald, B.A.

     With deep regret we announce the death of Mr. Albert L. Donald, B.A., which took place in the early hours of Sunday, at his residence, 57 Camden Street, Belfast, an unexpected event which will be sincerely mourned in educational and literary circles in the city and Province. Mr. Donald had suffered a breakdown in health some six weeks ago. He was making what appeared to be a steady recovery, but passed away in his sleep on Sunday morning. The youngest son of the late Rev. James Donald, Methodist minister, Mr. Donald was educated at the Methodist College, Belfast, where he was a pupil of great brilliance, carrying off prizes in English literature and classics, his favourite subjects, and the silver medal for classics in the scholarship class. The special prize for excellence in classics in the Middle Grade Intermediate examinations in his year also fell to him. Passing to the old Queen's College, Belfast, in the session of 1886-87, further honours fell easy prey to a student of his brilliance, and in his first year he won the Third Literary Scholarship, and in the following year he held the Fourth Literary Scholarship. He took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the Royal University with second class honours in Ancient Classics and an exhibition. For a period Mr. Donald taught in his old school, "Methody," where his brother, Mr. R. J. F. Donald, M.A., was senior classical master for many years, and there was no one with a mind better stores in all that is best in English and the classics, the subjects in which he imparted tuition. Later he successfully conducted tutorial classes, and many who achieved high honours in university examinations to-day hold positions in the academic world, and in other spheres are the first to confess how much they owe to their coach. Mr. Donald contributed freely to several journals, and won a niche in journalism all his own as "Aquilo" in "Ireland's Saturday Night," where his "Wandering Thoughts" gave pleasure and profit to thousands of readers every week. A man of simple tastes, who lived his quiet life, never happier than amongst his books, he was beloved of his intimates. He remained a bachelor, and resided with his brother, Mr. R. J. F. Donald, to whom in a loss so acute the keenest sympathy will go out. The funeral will take place on Tuesday afternoon to Knockbreda.

Mr. D. W. Watson
     The death occurred yesterday of Mr. David W. Watson, a well-known manufacturers' agent in Belfast. Mr. Watson, who carried on business in Castle Lane with his step-brother, as Messrs. D. & W. G. Watson, was a highly respected member of the business community. Educated privately under the tuition of the Rev. David Fleming, of Rathfriland, he gained his first business experience in Newry, subsequently entering the firm of Messrs. Robinson & Cleaver, and later that of Lowry & Co., Belfast. Over 30 years ago he commenced business on his own account, and in this he was actively engaged until three months ago when he became ill. The funeral will take place on Monday from the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. S. R. Foster, of University Square. Mr. Watson took a keen interest in Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, where he had been a member of session for some years. He had also acted as superintendent of the afternoon Sabbath school. He was a Free Mason being a P.M. of Claremont Lodge No. 423. Mr. Watson was a golfer, and was a member of the Malone Club. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Foster, to whom sympathy will be extended in her bereavement.

22nd April 1933 Mr. William R. Rea

     We regret to announce the death of Mr. William R. Rea, at his residence, 8 College Green, Belfast. The interment took place, yesterday, at the family vault in the City Cemetery. Mr. Rea was chairman of the Lagan Navigation Company, and also of the Inland Navigation Company, Ltd., but had not enjoyed good health for some years, and latterly did not take an active part in business affairs. He was formerly a member of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, the local Marine Board, and the Shipping Federation. He was born at Stanley House, Holywood, and for some time resided at "Abbeylands," Whiteabbey. He was a son of the late Mr. Hugh Rea, a well-known West Indian trader, who was also associated with the Northern Bank, and was concerned in shipping interests. Mr. William Rea was a relative of the late Mr. James Alexander Henderson, J.P., managing-proprietor of the "Belfast News-Letter" from 1845 to 1883, and Mayor of Belfast 1873-1874. He is survived by his wife, a son, and three daughters. The son, Mr. Cecil A. Rea, served with the Royal Air Force during the Great War, and is now engaged in civil aviation. One daughter is married to Mr. R. L. Kemp, managing-director of James Little & Co., Belfast, and another daughter married Mr. Carlton Reid, a director of J. Harrison Crossfield & Co. Ltd., while the third is married to Mr. James H. Haslett, eldest son of the late Sir James Haslett, M.P. Mr. Henry Tighe Rea, a brother of the deceased, is Northern Ireland Consul for the Netherlands, and secretary of the navigation companies of which his brother was chairman. The late Mr. Rea was well known in Belfast, and the greatest sympathy will be extended to his relatives in their bereavement.

26th March 1933 - Mr. John T. Morton
     The funeral took place to the City Cemetery to-day of Mr. John T. Morton, Ravenhill Road, Belfast, whose death is deeply regretted not only by his many personal friends but his colleagues in the teaching profession and by members of the Methodist Church. There was a very large attendance of members of the two latter bodies at the funeral. Messrs. Thomas Johnson & Son, Bedford Street, Belfast, had charge of the funeral arrangements.

22nd August 1930 Mr. Hans Iten (died 21st August)
     Lovers of art in Belfast and, in fact, in all the principal cities in England and the Continent will regret the death of Mr. Hans Iten, of 18 South Parade, Belfast, which occurred at Bulach, Switzerland, during the weekend. Some time ago Mr. Iten had a breakdown in health. It was thought that a change to his native country would be beneficial, and when he left Belfast he carried with him hearty good wishes for a speedy recovery.  Such was not to be, however, for complications ensued which proved fatal, and the greatest sympathy will be extended to Mrs. Frieda Iten, who is also of Swiss extraction, in her entirely unexpected bereavement. Mr. Iten received his education at St. Gall, Switzerland, and afterwards studied in Paris. As an artist his best work was accomplished in still life, and his floral pictures were the delight of all who love flowers. One such subject, a bowl of dahlias and mid-summer daisies, is at present in Messrs. Rodman's Art Gallery, Donegall Place, Belfast, and is a good example of the reality which his brush could impart. For many years he has resided in Belfast, and each year the circle of his friends grew wider. They accorded him their hearty congratulations when in 1927 he had a picture accepted at the Royal Academy, and since then he has been an almost regular exhibitor there. He has also exhibited in the Official Salon, the Society of French. In his will .. he left three-fourths of the residue of the property to his wife and one-fourth to his father, or, in the event of his predecease, as to one-third each to his brother Oskar and his sister Marie and one-third each to the children of his brother Edward. He stated: "It is my wish that my wife should not marry again."

23rd March 1933 Mr. J. T. Morton, Belfast
     The death took place at his residence, 394 Ravenhill Road, Belfast, on Thursday night, of Mr. John T. Morton, a well-known school teacher in the city. A considerable portion of Mr. Morton's career was spent in Belfast, where he held a number of important appointments. A member of the Methodist Church, he attended Donegal Square Church. Deep sympathy will be extended to the widow and family. The funeral takes place to the City Cemetery this afternoon.

Mr. William Hughes, J.P.
     Much regret will be occasioned by the death of Mr. William Hughes, J.P., 14 Stranmillis Road, Belfast, which took place at a private nursing home on Monday. Deceased, who was 65 years of age, was a popular figure in the business life of the city, and had surrounded himself with a wide circle of friends, by whom he was greatly esteemed for those qualities of character which marked the true Catholic gentleman. The late Mr. Hughes commenced his business career at the age of 16, when he joined the clerical staff of Messrs. Peter Keegan and Co., Ltd., wholesale spirit merchants, Callender Street, Belfast. Showing early that business acumen which so distinguished him in later years, his promotion was rapid, until eventually he was made managing director of the firm, a position which he occupied with great success for many years. He will be deeply missed by his many friends, who recognised his sterling worth and kindly nature. The funeral, which will be private, will take place to-morrow to the family burying ground at Banbridge. R.I.P.

February 1933 Mr. S. R. Bolton
     General regret will be created not alone in business but in literary, dramatic and artistic circles, by the announcement of the death of Mr. S. R. Bolton, of Belfast and Whitehead, which took place on Wednesday in the Royal Victoria Hospital from pneumonia. The late Mr. Bolton was removed from Whitehead to hospital on the orders of his medical adviser Dr. Wm. Martin, J.P., but the most skilled attention of doctors and nurses could not avert the end. Several years ago Mr. Bolton spent a period in South Africa, where he found the climate beneficial to his health. The late gentleman, who was a member of the Ulster Arts Club, was one of the most gifted textile designers in the North of Ireland. He specialised in handkerchief embroidery designs. He was formerly on the staff of Messrs. Henry Matier & Co., Ltd., but in recent years was in business on his own account, with offices in Queen Street. Mr. Bolton's leisure time was largely devoted to literary and dramatic production. He was a leading figure in the school of amateur players in Ulster, whose work in recent years has been altogether praiseworthy. Not only was he a prominent member of the Carrickfergus Players, but he was the author of dramas and comedies which have had quite popular stage runs. His works include "Going West" "The Witness to the Will" "Miss Clegg's Legacy" and "The Sentimental Quartet." Mr. Bolton, who was unmarried, was the younger son of Mr. S. R. Bolton, resides in London, and his only sister is a resident of the U.S.A. His brother Thomas arrived in Belfast this morning, and in his melancholy mission he has the sympathy of a wide circle of friends. Both Mr. Bolton's parents are dead.

22nd November 1934 Mrs. Crofts-Mollan

     We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Phoebe Mary Crofts-Mollan, which took place at Kilmood Vicarage, Killinchy, Co. Down, today. She was the daughter of Mr. Wills George Crofts, of Temple Mary, Co. Cork, and widow of Mr. William Mollan, Dublin. A woman of wide and varied talent, she was a profound student of history and had travelled a good deal in many lands. She was well informed upon a variety of subjects and wrote upon them with great skill and understanding, being a frequent contributor to the columns of this paper. In later years she fulfilled all the high hopes that were entertained for her by her friends as a writer of graceful and cultured English and she contributed to papers and magazines not only in this country but in France, America and Canada as well. Articles of travel, history, educational and social subjects came from her ready pen and she also wrote extensively of her native land and of old Irish industries and customs. To her sister, Mrs. Wilson, The Vicarage, Killinchy, and other relatives, we extend our sincere sympathy. The chief mourners were Mrs. H. Wilson, wife of the Rev. H. Wilson, the late rector of the parish, and Dr. H. Wilson (brother-in-law).

Lady Augusta Gregory

     The famous Irish dramatist and founder and inspirer of the Irish National Theatre, died yesterday, age 76, at Coole (Coale) Park, Gort, Galway. Irish nationality has through her death lost a leader and a friend. It was to her house in London that Mr. W. B. Yeats came with his idea of a "Little theatre somewhere in the suburbs" where verse plays could be given before select audiences, but Lady Gregory persuaded Mr. Yeats to establish the theatre in Dublin rather than in London. Many famous people met at her London home. Later Miss Horniman, of the old Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, came to her aid in establishing the Irish National Theatre in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, of which Lady Gregory was a director, and where nearly all of her 30 plays have been staged. Her plays have been translated into almost every European language, as well as into Japanese. Lady Gregory was born at Roxborough, County Galway, in 1856. In 1880 she married, as his second wife, Sir William Gregory, M.C., M.G. at one time Governor of Ceylon, who shared her love of Ireland and of art. He died in 1892. The Abbey Theatre was really founded at Lady Gregory's delightful place, Coole Park, where she entertained from time to time almost every personality of note in the literary world. Lady Gregory was foremost in the fight to have the famous collection of pictures left by her nephew, Sir Hugh Lane, returned to Dublin, where, according to Irish claims, he intended them to rest. They at present hang in the Tate Gallery, London, but efforts to have them returned to Dublin, where a gallery for them is being provided, are not being relaxed. The youngest daughter of the late Mr. Dudley Persse, D.L., of Roxborough, County Galway, she married in 1881. She also published an autobiography of her husband in 1894. She was born 1856. The remains of Lady Gregory were removed from her residence and interred in the Protestant plot in the New Cemetery, Galway, beside one of her sisters, Mrs. Waithman. Chief mourners included Captain G. Gough and Mrs. Gough, Viscount Gough and Mr. W. B. Yeats, Mr. Lennox Robinson, Mr. Arthur Shields, Mr. Denis O'Dea, and Mr. F. J. McCormack. Mr. P. J. Little, T.D., represented Mr. De Valera, and there was a large attendance of the general public.

Mr. R. G. Laughlin (Robert Gardiner) (died 11th May 1931)
     The death occurred at his residence at Somerset Terrace, 129 University Street, Belfast, to-day of one of the oldest and best known merchants of the city, Mr. R. G. Laughlin. He was formerly manager of Messrs. Currie's, High Street, and took over the wholesale end of that firm's business, but his premises in Skipper Street were perhaps better known to the public. At the morning service in Carlisle Memorial Hall, the Rev. A. Cairns paid a warm tribute to the memory of Mr. R. G. Laughlin, who had been a member of Donegall Street Congregational Church for over fifty years. He said that Mr. Laughlin, from the time he entered upon his business career at the age of 15 until within a few weeks of his death at the age of 82, had filled the years with unceasing and fruitful labour. It was to be regretted that in his closing days he had the pain of seeing the Church he loved destroyed by fire. Deceased's eldest son is in business in London, and his other sons were associated with him in the Skipper Street premises. He was interred at Belfast City Cemetery. (He died on a Monday)

Mr. E. I. Officer, Nyasaland
     As the result of a motor accident, Mr. E. I. Officer, a Belfastman, who resided at Blantyre, Myasaland, has met his death. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Officer, 22 College Park Avenue, Belfast, and before emigrating to Central Africa, where he became employed as manager of the Consolidated Plantation Supplies Company's general hardware and motor accessory stores, he served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Riddel, Ltd., Donegall Place. The late Mr. Officer was 28 years of age, and a former member of Victoria Swimming Club and the 52nd Company Boys' Brigade. He was also connected with the Crescent Presbyterian Church

2nd March 1934 Mr. Harry R. Douglas
     A representative attendance of people interested in art, as well as the general public, attended the funeral of Mr. Harry R. Douglas, the well-known Belfast artist, whose remains were removed yesterday from the residence of his son, Mr. Ronald Douglas, 43 Brookvale Street, Cliftonville, for interment in the City Cemetery. Born in Edinburgh in 1862, Mr. Douglas studied art under the late Sir Noel Peton, and in 1891 he came to Belfast and commenced business as a portrait painter. His largest portrait was that of Sir Robert Meyer, which hangs in the City Hall. The late Mr. Douglas was a former nice-president of the Ulster Art Society and exhibited works at the Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy, and the Royal Cambrian Academy. He wrote the first guide book to Ulster published by the L.M.S. Railway Co., and he was also the author of the first angling guide to Ulster, published by the Ulster Tourist Development Association. He was a member of the North-East Ulster Angling Club, the Ulster Anglers' Association, and the Federation of Ulster Angling Clubs. Mr. Douglas belonged to the Masonic Order and was Past Master of Lodge No. 783, whilst he was also an honorary member of Lodge No. 440.

Mr. Patrick Tuohy

Irish Artist's Tragic Death
     A Reuter New York message says Mr. Patrick Tuohy (36), a member of the Irish Royal Academy and the son of a Dublin physician, has been found dead, asphyxiated by gas at the top of an apartment house in Riverside Drive. He had been dead for about a week, according to the report of a doctor who was summoned as soon as the discovery was made.

14th April 1932 Mr. Andrew M. Stone
     The death of Mr. Andrew M. Stone, which took place suddenly yesterday at his residence, 86 Holywood Road, Belfast, has caused deep regret to his many friends. For many years Mr. Stone was a familiar figure at the Belfast Hippodrome where he held an important staff position. His genial disposition, and his readiness to assist in the promotion of charitable entertainments and concerts won for him the esteem of all with whom he came in contact. He took a deep interest in the Not Forgotten Association and rendered valuable assistance to that body in organising outings and entertainments for ex-Service men still in hospital. He was also prominent in sporting circles and was an ardent supporter of association football. Shortly after his retirement from the Hipprodrome, (Hippodrome) staff, Mr. Stone took over control of the Picture House at Holywood. He was interred at Movilla Cemetery. He passed away on Thursday after a sudden illness. Rev. Archibald Blue (U.S.A.), acting minister of May Street Presbyterian Church, and Rev. John Armstrong, Kilbride, officiated at the home and graveside. Chief mourners were: Mrs. Croll and Miss A. Stone (sisters); Messrs. James A. Stone (brother), F. J. Brown and Andrew Croll (brothers-in-law); Gordon Stone (nephew); H. Tanner, S. Gordon, S. Gordon, jun., A. M. Gordon, W. Gordon, and J. Cherry (cousins); Bertie Hamilton, Bertie Cunningham, W. Ferguson, B. Ferguson, and J. Magee. Mr. George Dobler, manager of the Belfast Hippodrome was also present, and the owners and staff of Holywood Picture House were represented.

Mr. George Maxwell
     Subscribers and visitors to the Belfast Linen Hall Library will learn with deep regret of the death of Mr. George Maxwell, the esteemed and ever-courteous sub-librarian. Mr. Maxwell had been in ill-health for several weeks, and lately suffered a relapse, from which little hope was entertained for his recovery, and he passed away on Thursday, at his residence, 671 Lisburn Road. The funeral took place this afternoon to the City Cemetery.

Mr. James Carson
     . . of Aberfoyle, Maryville Park, Belfast, late of Mullan's, Donegall Place, who died on 17th November 1927, left £250 to the Presbyterian Orphan Society. The following bequests are also made in his will: To the Zenana Mission, £150; to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, £526 6s 3d five per cent. War Loan stock; to the Children's Hospital, Queen Street, Belfast, £500 five per cent. War Loan stock; to the Foreign Mission in connection with the Presbyterian Church, £400 five per cent. War Loan; and to the Qua Iboe Mission in connection with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, £400 five per cent, War Loan Stock. After making certain pecuniary and specific bequests, the testator bequeathed the entire residue of his estate to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, the Presbyterian Orphan Society, and the Children's Hospital, Queen Street, Belfast, in equal shares.

Mr. J. O. G. Duffy
     Mr. James O. G. Duffy, novelist, playwright, and newspaper editor, a native of Strabane, and a writer for the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin," has died at his home in the United States. Born in Strabane on 4th January, 1864, the son of Thomas P. G. and Susan Toorish Duffy, he was educated privately, and travelled extensively in his youth. In 1897 he received the LL.B. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. For many years he was associated with the "Philadelphia Press," which no longer exists. He was Sunday editor from 1891 to 1896, dramatic editor and critic from 1893 to 1911, literary editor and principal reviewer from 1896 to 1911, associate editor from 1911 to 1913, dramatic editor and associate editor from 1914 to 1920. Mr. Duffy was admitted to the United States Bar in 1897, and was general counsel for an allied group of corporations for a number of years. Among his works are "Glass and Gold" (a novel); "Hohenzollern" (a play), which he wrote with Cyrus Townsend Brady; "The Golden Fleece" and "Brenda's Elopement" (two plays); and "The Sting of Death" (a novel), which was published in 1916. He was also the complier of "Tales from Bohemia," published in 1908.

1932 - Mr. Dennis Neilson Terry

     Bulawayo (Rhodesia), Thursday, Mr. Dennis Neilson Terry, the well known English actor, died here at mid-day to-day. Mr. Terry, who had been suffering for some days from double pneumonia, was the son of Fred Terry and Julia Neilson. He was 37 years of age. He made his first stage appearance when he was only 11. He then "walked on" as a page in "Much Ado About Nothing," At the performance to commemorate Ellen Terry's jubilee five years later he commenced his regular stage career under the name of Derrick Dennis at the New Theatre in "As You Like It." He appeared in May, 1924, at the Belfast Opera House with his wife. Up till the outbreak of the Great War, when he enlisted in the Royal West Surrey Regiment, he appeared in many Shakespearean productions both in London and the Provinces. Many people connected with the stage attended the funeral service yesterday of Mr. Dennis Neilson-Terry, the actor, which was held at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, London. Mr. Neilson-Terry died in South Africa while on tour, and his body was brought home in the liner Warwick Castle. In accordance with his wish mourning was not worn at the funeral. There were many wreaths, the chancel being almost filled with flowers. The principal mourners were Mrs. Neilson-Terry, the widow, and her two young daughters; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Terry (parents), and Miss Phyllis Terry (sister).

18th April 1933 Mr. Fred Terry
     . . the veteran actor-manager, and brother of the late Dame Ellen Terry, died at his home at Hampstead last night, aged 69. He had been in poor health for many months, and the death of his son, Dennis Neilson-Terry, in Africa last year was a very heavy blow to him. He rose from a sick bed to attend the funeral. A doctor had been in attendance for many weeks. Yesterday Mr. Terry became worse, and he died peacefully in the presence of his wife, formerly Miss Julia Neilson, his partner in many stage romances, at 9 o'clock. A member of a famous family of actors, Fred Terry was born on 9th November, 1863. There were four sisters and three brothers, all of them great players in their day, who included Ellen and Kate Terry and George and Charles Terry. Fred Terry was the last survivor of them, and he had been one of a family of 14. He married Julia Neilson, thus linking up two acting families. It was in January, 1880, fifty-three years ago, that he made his first appearance on the stage. He played under the Bancrofts at the Haymarket in a walking-on part in a revival of "Money."
19th April 1933 Royal Sympathy For Mrs. Terry - A Telegram from the King and Queen.
     The remains of Mr. Fred Terry, the famous actor-manager, whose death at his home at Primrose Hill, London, N.W., on Monday night was announced in the late editions of The Daily Mail yesterday, are to be cremated at Golders Green, N.W., to-morrow at 9.30 a.m. A memorial service will be held in the early afternoon at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden. A telegram of condolence was sent yesterday on behalf of the King and Queen, to Mrs. Terry (Miss Julia Neilson), while a continued stream of message and telegrams bore testimony to the grief of the theatrical world at the passing of the last of the elder generations of Terrys. While Miss Julia Neilson's plans for the future are not settled, her friends do not anticipate that she will return to the stage. She has not acted since her husband's illness compelled him to break up his touring company a year or so ago. Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry, her daughter, is appearing at Nottingham this week in "Evensong." She paid a hurried visit to London yesterday to be with her mother, and will come down again to-morrow for the memorial service. Three coach loads f magnificent flowers from his many friends in the theatrical profession came to Golders Green Crematorium to-day, when the funeral took place of Mr. Fred Terry. Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson, another veteran actor, was one of those who sent wreaths. In view of the memorial service later, the attendance at the funeral was largely confined to the family and personal friends. A short service was conducted by the Rev. R. Hart Davies, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Sir - The Obituary notices of Fred Terry omit to mention the glory of his voice. The art of declamatory acting is dying out, and it is a matter for universal regret when a famous figure departs who has held all hearts by his voice. Theatregoer, Grimsby

20th June 1935  Viscountess Pirrie (78)
Margaret Montgomery Pirrie (1857-1935)

     We regret to announce the death, which occurred at her residence, Carlos Place, London, early yesterday morning, widow of Viscount Pirrie, a former head of the great Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff. Lady Pirrie, whose passing is so sincerely mourned in Belfast, contributed largely to her husband's success in life. It may be recalled that in reply to an address from the Queen's Island workers on the occasion of his elevation to a Viscountcy, Lord Pirrie said:- "My wife was my inspiration when I was young, and, after more than forty years of married life, continues to be so, and has been in every sense of the term a real helpmeet. She has never spared herself, and has supported me in the various undertakings which have been essential in the expansion of Harland & Wolff's works." Her father was John Carlisle, M.A., an outstanding figure in the annals of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and her mother was Catherine, daughter of Alexander Montgomery, of Dundesart, County Antrim. One of Lady Pirrie's brothers, the late Right Hon. Alexander Carlisle, of the Queen's Island, was born at Ballymena, while his father held the position of inspector of national schools in that district. Funeral will be to the Belfast City Cemetery on Saturday forenoon. Marble bust of Viscountess Pirrie, by Mr. A. Bertram Pegram, the noted sculptor, presented to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, by the members of the Carlisle family.

July 1935 Mr. Donald McPherson
     . . a well known Belfast artist, passed away at his residence, Earlswood Road, yesterday. He was a foundation member of the old Belfast Ramblers' Sketching Club, out of which was formed the Belfast Arts Society, which in recent years became the Ulster Academy of Arts. He was also a member of the Ulster Arts Club, and a frequent exhibitor at exhibitions in Belfast and further afield. As a landscape painter, Mr. McPherson enjoyed a high reputation, and his work was characterised by a peculiar delicacy and charm. He was particularly successful in the water colour medium and revelled in the Ulster scene, from which he drew much of his inspiration and material. He was highly esteemed by the members of his profession, and his death is deeply regretted by all who knew him. Mr. McPherson was born in Belfast of Scottish parents, and served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Little & McClean, Ltd. The funeral of Mr. Donald McPherson, took place this afternoon from his late residence, Kintore, Earlswood Road, Strandtown, the interment being in the City Cemetery.

Mr. Standish O'Grady
     We are informed (says the "Times") that Mr. Standish O'Grady, the Irish man of letters, died last Friday at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, at the age of 81. He left his house, Rosmaree, for a walk, was taken ill suddenly, and was brought home dead. He had left Ireland many years ago, long before the late troubles. Standish O'Grady was born in September, 18, 1846, at Castletownberehaven, County Cork, of which his father, Rev. Thomas O'Grady, was the Protestant rector. From Tipperary Grammar School he entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he won a classical scholarship and silver and gold medals. He was also an adept at cricket, football, hockey, and rowing, and carried off several prizes at the college sports. A man of versatile character his activities included politics (once he was an active Conservative and then an extremist in the Irish Labour movement), Journalism, Celtic literature, Irish history and fiction. Called to the Irish Bar in 1872 he went on Circuit for a time, but gave up the law for journalism, becoming a leader writer on the staff of "Saunder's Newsletter" at a time when Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., was a reporter on the same paper. Later he went to the "Dublin Daily Express." A quarter of a century ago Mr. O'Grady severed his connection with the Dublin Press and went to England, becoming a regular contributor to the "Gentleman's Magazine" under the pen name of "Arthur Clive." He afterwards devoted himself largely to the study of Irish history, and was the author of a number of works of research, including one on Cuchullain the legendary Ulster hero. A good many years ago he visited Belfast and wrote some interesting articles for the Press on his impressions of life in the city. He is, perhaps, best known to the public by his works of fiction like the "Boy of Stars" and "Ulrick the Ready," which depict life in Ireland at various periods in an attractive manner.

Dr. Grierson

     We regret to announce the death of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Charles Thornton Primrose Grierson, who for almost eighteen years was Lord Bishop of Down and Connor and Dromore, which occurred yesterday at his residence, 66 Somerton Road, Belfast. A great Christian gentleman has passed away, one who enjoyed in a remarkable degree the confidence and affection of all classes of the Protestant community throughout the length and breadth of the land, and whose life-work on behalf of the Church of Ireland will form perhaps the most enduring monument to his memory. Ordained in May, 1881, his ecclesiastical jubilee took place in 1931. The announcement that he had decided to lay aside the active duties of office was made in September 1934, the retirement being made imperative by medical advice, as Dr. Grierson was then 77 years of age, and the intimation of his resolve sent a wave of regret throughout the Church of Ireland as well as other Christian denominations all over the country.

Mr. James Guiler

     His many friends will learn with great regret of the death of Mr. James Guiler, M.P.S.N.I., the well-known pharmacist, which took place on Saturday at his residence, 89 Ormeau Road, Belfast. He had been in failing health for several months past and on that account had been obliged to retire in October last from the successful business he had for many years carried on in the Ormeau Road district. The late Mr. Guiler was a man of wide experience in connection with the chemists' profession, and his high reputation was far from being confined to Belfast, but extended to trade circles all over the country. He qualified as chemist in 1884, and the early period of his career was spent in Armagh. Subsequently he was representative for a period, of a leading English firm in the drug business; after which he started on his own account in Ormeau Road, where he carried on a high-class trade successfully for many years, until his recent regretted retirement. Possessed of marked abilities as an organiser, and enjoying the confidence of all associated with the business, Mr. Guiler was one of the founders of the Ulster Retail Drug Trade Association, which had the benefit for many years of his services as hon. secretary. He was an officer of the North Irish Pharmacists' Association, and in addition had been chairman of the executive committee of pharmacists, which engaged in the consultations with the Government leading up to the passing of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act of 1925. Under this measure, a separate association was set up for the pharmacists of the Six Counties, and, the first appointments being by nomination, Mr. Guiler, as a mark of the appreciation of the Home Minister for the valued services he rendered, was invited to become the first President. He, however, to the regret of his friends, felt obliged to decline the honour on health grounds. For many years Mr. Guiler acted as examiner, in Dublin, for the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland in botany, pharmacy, and materia medica. He also served as examiner when the new body was set up in Northern Ireland. The late Mr. Guiler was of a most genial, courteous disposition. He had cultured tastes, and was much devoted to literary and scientific studies. A Presbyterian, he had for many years been actively identified with the Cooke Centenary Church, holding the office of elder. Prominent in Masonry, he was P.M. of Rosetta Lodge 188; P.K. of R.A.C. 188; member of R.A.C. 279, and of Preceptory No. 106. Sincere sympathy will be extended to the widow and family of four sons. The chief mourners were:- Messrs. J. Rowland Guiler and William C. Guiler (sons), Robert K. Guiler (brother), and David Howard (brother-in-law.)

Mr. S. McNeilly
     A memorial service for the late Mr. S. McNeilly was held in Broadway Presbyterian Church, Belfast, on Sunday evening at seven o'clock, and was conducted by Rev. J. W. Gibson, M.A. After an appropriate sermon, based on Philip i., 21, Mr. Gibson went on to say that it devolved upon him to say a few words with reference to the one for whom that memorial service was being held. He felt, he said, how inadequate must any words of his be to express their sense of loss they had sustained through the passing away of their highly esteemed member, Mr. McNeilly. What he was to most of them they all knew and how difficult it would be to fill the place he had left vacant. In that congregation he was a tower of strength, ever ready to spend and be spent in his Master's service, and to help in the work which was so dear to his heart. For years he had been one of their most faithful elders, and for an almost similar period their respected clerk of session. He was always willing to help his minister in every way he could, and the Church could ill afford to lose one such as he was. And what he was inside the Church, that he was outside it. He was prominently identified with the Masonic and Orange Institutions and filled some of the more important offices in them, where in the discharge of his duties he won the approval of all concerned. To all the sorrowing ones at home they tendered their heartfelt sympathy and they prayed that the God of all Consolation might abound to them and enable them to say the will of the Lord be done.

Mr. James Blyth
     . . "the novelist of the Norfolk Marshes," died in Paddington Hospital yesterday after a painful illness. Mr Blyth was 69, and he had written more than fifty published works. His last novel, "The Riddle of the Marsh," was published in 1922.

Mr. Thomas Green
     The death took place at his son's residence, Limehurst, Holland Park, Belfast, yesterday, of Mr. Thomas Green, a member of the board of directors of Messrs. Grattan & Co., chemists, Corn Market. A native of Lancashire, Mr. Green, who was 87 years of age, came to Belfast 65 years ago as manager of Messrs. Grattan's dispensing department, and was a member of both the English and Irish Pharmaceutical Societies. He retired from active service on the board about 1920. Mr. Green was also a trustee of Donegall Square Methodist Church, in which he took a deep practical interest. His son is Mr. H. Percy Green, of Holland Park.

Mr. Hugh Hobson

     The death occurred yesterday, at his residence, Rosario, Ormeau Road, Belfast, of Mr. Hugh Hobson, J.P., head of the firm of Messrs. Hugh T. Hobson & Son, manufacturers, College Street, and a director of the Clarence Clothing Company, Ltd., Belfast. Mr. Hobson was a former chairman of St. Jude's polling district of the Ormeau Unionist Association, and before the Great War was actively identified with the U.V.F. movement. On the outbreak of war he rendered valuable services in connection with the Manufacturers' Agents' section of the Ulster Women's Gift Fund, and also the Church Conveners' section. Although the funeral of Mr. Hugh Hobson, J.P., on Saturday morning, was private a number of close friends attended at Rosario, Ormeau Road, Belfast, and accompanied the funeral to the family burying ground at Knockbreda.

Mr. Samuel Freeland
     The death of Mr. Samuel Freeland, an assistant in the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, has caused deep regret amongst a large circle of friends. A few days ago he caught a chill, and complications developing, he passed away in the prime of life at his residence, 59 Stranmillis Gardens, on Wednesday evening. He was previously living in the Bangor district and only came to reside in Belfast about a fortnight ago. Mr. Freeland was also a member of the committee of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, and had served as a sectional secretary. In 1910, Mr. Freeland joined the staff of the Museum and Art Gallery as an apprentice, and shortly after the outbreak of war he enlisted in the R.A.M.C., serving on the Western front  until 1919. After demobilisation in 1919 he was appointed an assistant in the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, being specially interested in ethnography and minerology (mineralogy). In these departments he gave valuable service in arranging the specimens in the new building, and won the golden opinion of Mr. Deane, the curator, and Mr. Stendall, the assistant curator, by his extensive knowledge of the subjects. The deceased was also well known in swimming circles, and was a leading member of the Wellington Club, which was founded by his father, the late Mr. David Freeland, who passed away a few years ago. He was one of the club's record-breaking Ulster Squadron Championship team, and succeeded his father as hon. treasurer of the Wellington Club. He was an expert and graceful swimmer, and was one of the youngest four who ever qualified for the certificates of the Royal Life Saving Society, his partners being his three cousins, the brother Devlin, well-known in Belfast acquatic circles. In his first race he also won a gold medal. He leaves a widow and daughter to mourn his loss.

14th June 1935 - Mr. David Donaldson
     A verdict that he was found dead in his office and that he died from cerebral hemorrhage (haemorrhage) was returned to-day at the inquest on David Donaldson (53), a wholesale jeweller, of Balmoral Avenue. James Donaldson said he left his father in their office in North Street on Thursday evening June 6, at six p.m. He then appeared to be in his usual health and did not complain of feeling ill. He returned about 10.30 p.m., accompanied by a police sergeant and found his father lying on the floor apparently dead. The ambulance was summoned, but life was pronounced extinct when the body arrived at the hospital. Sergeant Glass gave corroborative evidence. The Coroner Mr. T. E. Alexander, said the medical evidence showed that the deceased died as the result of a ruptured blood vessel in the brail (natural causes). The deceased was very well known and highly respected by everybody, and his death came with painful suddenness. He wished to tender to his family and other relatives his deepest sympathy.

Sir John William Byers

     By the death of Sir John William Byers the medical profession has lost a distinguished member. Sir John was professor of midwifery in Queen's University, Belfast, and one of the leading physicians in the North of Ireland.

Death of Mrs. Mercier-Clements
     A large circle of friends will deeply regret to hear of the death of Mrs. R. G. Mercier-Clements, College Gardens, Belfast, which took place yesterday, after only a few days' illness. The funeral of Mrs. Mercier-Clements took place on Saturday morning, when her remains were removed from 5 College Gardens, for interment in the City Cemetery. The chief mourners were Councillor Dr. R. G. Mercier-Clements (husband), Mr. C. W. Mercier (brother), Alderman S. T. Mercier, J.P. (uncle); and Mr. Ernest Mercier, J.P. (cousin). The deceased lady was a very active worker in the Unionist cause. She was a fluent speaker, possessing a thorough knowledge of the Irish question in all its bearings, and she was able to present her arguments with a force and lucidity which carried great weight with her audiences. She addressed scores of meetings in Belfast and other parts of Ulster, and also did valuable deputation work in England and Scotland, where she made a strong impression by her transparent honesty and the masterly manner in which she handled her subject. She was a prominent member of the Ulster Women's Unionist Association and the Ulster Unionist Council, and was connected with other political organisations working in the interests of Unionism. On the temperance question also she took a definite stand. She was interested in various social and philanthropic institutions, and was a member of the committee of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The only daughter of the late Mr. W. T. Mercier, of the firm of Messrs. W. & S. Mercier, Ltd., she was a niece of Alderman S. T. Mercier, J.P., the esteemed chairman of the Belfast Technical Instruction Committee. She was married in 1908 to Dr. R. G. Clements, who was recently elected a member of the Corporation for the Cromac Division.

23rd September 1934 Mr. Archibald Marshall
     The sudden death at Cambridge of Mr. Archibald Marshall, a well-known novelist, journalist and contributor to "Punch," was announced yesterday. Mr. Marshall, who was 68, was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge. While an undergraduate he wrote for "Granta," and afterwards joined the staffs in turn of the "Daily News" and the "Daily Mail," where he worked directly under Lord Northcliffe. His first novel, "Peter Binney, Undergraduate," was published in 1899, and was followed by many other successes.

Mrs. J. H. Smyth
     The remains of the late Mrs. Agnes Smith, wife of Mr. J. H. Smith, overseer Newry G.P.O. (and formerly of Downpatrick G.P.O.), who passed away at her husband's residence, 7 Vimy Terrace, after a lengthened illness, were laid to rest in St. Patrick's Churchyard on Thursday afternoon. The cortege, which was of a most representative character, testified to the sympathy felt for the bereaved husband and son. Blinds were drawn all along the route, and all the available members of the clerical staff of the Post Office, followed by the postmen in uniform, walked behind the chief mourners. The service in the church and at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. Canon Swanzy, M.A. The chief mourners were:- Mr. J. H. Smyth (husband), Master J. H. Smyth (son), and Messrs. Isaac Carter (brother); George Carter, Joseph Carter, Rathfriland, and James Lamb, Newry (uncles); J. L. Pearson, Dungannon; Henry Smyth and Andrew Neill, Belfast; Charles Ewen, Newry, and Thomas Burton, Benburb (brother-in-law); Masters Richard and J. Cyril Bell, Belfast (nephews), and Master J. Inwood, Newry (friend). Floral tributes were placed on the grave from the following:- "In loving memory of my dear wife Agnes - 'Peace, Perfect Peace.'" from husband and son; "In loving remembrance of our dear daughter Agnes," from father, mother, sister and brother, Gorton, Dungannon; from Charles, Lucy, and family; from Tom, Minnie and family; from Tom, Annie and family, from Mr. and Mrs. Lamb and family, from the members of St. Mary's Select Vestry; from the Head Postmaster and staff of the G.P.O., Newry; from Dick, Jack and Annie; from Annie and boys, Dick and Cyril; from the residents at Vimy Terrace, from the British Legion, from Mrs. Calter and family, Sandys Street; from Mrs. Wheatley, Moorvale; from Miss Bryson, Canal Quay; from Mrs. Grilly, Sugar Island; from Mrs. Inwood and family, Canal Street; from Violet Moles, from Mrs. Lowans and family.

24th June 1935 Mr. Thomas Shannon
     The death took place last night of Mr. Thomas Shannon, Inver, Larne, who for over 25 years had carried on a large grocery business in the town. Representative of Inver Ward on the Larne Urban Council for several years, Mr. Shannon was also a member of the Larne Chamber of Commerce, and a prominent worker in the local Methodist Church. He is survived by his widow, three sons, and one daughter.

31st May 1935 Mr. Carlton Dawe

     Mr. Carlton Dawe (69), of Kensington, the novelist and playwright, died at his London home yesterday, after being taken ill on Richmond golf course on Wednesday. He came to London in 1881 and wrote his first book in 1892. He was the author of several books and plays and a contributor to many magazines.

Mr. Edmund Gracey, M.B.E.
     The death took place on Saturday at his residence, 84 University Avenue, of Mr. Edmund Gracey, M.B.E., who, for more than fifty years was connected with the firm of Messrs. Harland & Wolff, Ltd. Mr. Gracey joined the office staff in his youth, and over twenty years ago he became chief of the Contracts and Buying Department. His death severs a link with the Queen's Island of the days of Lord Pirrie, who had entertained for Mr. Gracey a feeling of warm personal friendship. He was highly esteemed by the directors of the firm and by the whole staff in the Belfast offices, and there was great regret when ill-health caused his retirement about two years ago. Throughout his business career Mr. Gracey was animated by a single-minded devotion to duty and the interests of the firm, and for the valuable services he gave during the war he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. Gracey was a member of the Church of Ireland, and for over twenty-five years he was hon. secretary of the select vestry of the parish on All Saints. He belonged to the Masonic Order and was a P.M. of Lodge 133, Comber. The funeral will take place to Knockbreda Cemetery to-day at 2 o'clock. Rev. R. C. H. G. Elliott, M.A., rector of All Saints' speaking at a memorial service in the church last night, said that during the twenty-five years in which Mr. Gracey had filled with distinction the office of hon. secretary of the select vestry, the church had been enlarged, and what was a small parish had grown to be a thickly populated district. During those years Mr. Gracey had been the loyal friend and supporter of the clergy, and he knew how much the late Rev. R. B. Cooke had valued his wise counsel. When he (Mr. Elliott) became rector of the parish he found in Mr. Gracey a tower of strength. Quiet in manner, he was not easily moved, but he always showed himself possessed of a thoughtful mind and a kindly heart, and his advice was always the fruit of ripe judgment, and a wide experience of men and affairs. He has spent his whole life in the service of what was probably the world's largest shipbuilding firm, and had risen to be the head of a department with the daily responsibility of the spending of thousands of pounds. The funeral will take place on Monday afternoon, to Knockbreda Cemetery.

26th September 1934 Mr. James Ireland
     A prominent and highly respected figure in the business life of Belfast has been removed by the death of Mr. James Ireland, founder and head of Messrs. James Ireland & Co., woollen manufacturers, May Street, Belfast. Mr. Ireland, who was in his 74th year, had been in failing health during the last couple of years, and he passed away on Wednesday evening at his home, St. Ronans, 80 Malone Road. A native of Fifeshire, the late Mr. Ireland learned the business in which he became a specialist at Galashiels, one of the centres of the Scottish tweed trade. Industrious and hardworking from his earliest days, he did not spare himself, and integrity, energy and enterprise won for him the high position which he subsequently achieved in the manufacturing and mercantile world. When still a young man, but with a thorough mastery of the woollen trade, he crossed to Ireland and spent two years with a leading firm in Dublin. In the nineties he came north to take up the managership of the woollen factory which at that time Messrs. Ross Bros., Ltd., controlled in Durham Street. In 1898 he decided to set up business on his own account, and established the firm which flourishes to-day under the title of James Ireland & Co. At first Mr. Ireland had his business in Alfred Street, but in a short time larger premises in May Street were acquired. Under his controlling hand the business steadily expanded, and for many years it has commanded a clientele in various parts of the world. In addition to the woollen manufacturing business the firm has a large turnover in the wholesale drapery line. The successful progress of the firm may be said to represent a large chapter in the life story of the deceased gentleman. Some years ago Mr. Ireland was president of the Belfast Wholesale Warehousemen's Association. The late Mr. Ireland was an elder of Fisherwick Presbyterian Church. He took the keenest interest in Church affairs, and although his business life was so active he threw himself heartily into congregational and Sunday School work. For many years he taught a class in the Stranmillis School connected with the Fisherwick Church. His connection to the church which he joined over 44 years ago, shortly after coming from Scotland. Some years ago he presented a magnificent piano to be used in the Musgrave Halls in memory of his daughter, the late Mrs. William Doig, a talented musician, like her sister, Mrs. Young, whole solos in past years have often delighted and touched our hearts. Rev. John Waddell, M.A., Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, to his widow, son and daughter, and to all the sorrowing friends we offer our respectful sympathy, and we pray that God may comfort them and fill the void in their lives with His gracious presence. Mr. Ireland's funeral took place on Saturday to the City Cemetery.

9th July 1935 - Bishop Grierson
     The Dean of Belfast, Very Rev. W. S. Kerr, B.D. said: "Last Thursday was laid to rest one who gave us all a moving example of enthusiastic energy in the cause of good and of the household of faith. Here, where he was vicar and dean for eight years, it is superfluous to speak of his faithfulness in pastoral work. Especially his ministry was appreciated in times of illness. By the sick bed he was indeed a man of God, and imparted a sense of the depth of his own religious life."  Preaching at the morning service in St. Peter's Church, Belfast, the rector, Rev. Dr. Breene, in the course of a warm eulogy of the life and work of Bishop Grierson, said: Bishop Grierson spent fifty-three years in the active work of the ministry, and of those years 47 were devoted to this great United Diocese. During the last fifteen years, before his retirement, he was Bishop of Down and Connor and Dromore; that is to say, from 1919 to 1934.

The military hospital at Bovington Camp, where Lawrence of Arabia (46) died yesterday.
20th May 1935 - Mr. Thomas Edward Shaw (Colonel Lawrence of Arabia)

     A very great, a very gallant, and a very modest man is no more. Colonel T. E. Lawrence, known in latter years simply as Aircraftman T. E. Shaw, the legendary hero of unexampled exploits during the Great War, the alleged "mystery man" of the East, unscathed by war or adventure, lies dead; killed not by the bullets of an enemy, but by an accidental collision between his motor-cycle and a little butcher boy. After a great fight for life which had lasted since last Monday, he died at 8 a.m. yesterday at Wool Military Hospital, Bovington Camp, Dorset. When he left the hospital after an all-night vigil, Mr. A. W. Lawrence revealed that it would have been a tragedy if his brother had recovered, because his mind was irreparably damaged by the motor-cycle crash which caused his injury. The funeral will take place at the village church at Moreton, close to the cottage where Lawrence had been living. Mrs. Lawrence, the 73 year old mother, did not know yesterday that her son was dead. "News has been sent," said Mr. Arnold Walter Lawrence. "My mother, we have learned, is with my brother, Dr. M. R. Lawrence, steaming down the Yangtze river, in China. When they reach Shanghai they will receive a cable which is awaiting them."

19th January 1934 - Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P.

     Mr. Joseph Devlin (62), a member of the British and Northern Ireland Parliaments, died at St. John's Private Hospital, Crumlin Road, in Belfast early yesterday from a throat infection after a week's serious illness. His sister, a niece, and her son were at his bedside. The remains of Mr. Devlin were removed to St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral, where Requiem Mass will be celebrated at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. The funeral will take place afterwards at Milltown Cemetery.

17th July 1935 Dr. George William Russell
     . . the Irish poet, who was known to poetry-lovers the world over as "Æ," died last night in Bournemouth nursing home. He was aged 68. Dr. Russell had been critically ill for the past few days. He went to Bournemouth about a fortnight ago to recuperate after an illness from which he was suffering when he returned recently from a world tour, but after about a week's stay serious internal trouble developed and an immediate operation was found necessary. Dr, Russell's body will be taken to London by the 3.40 train from Bournemouth on Friday, and then taken to Ireland. The funeral will take place on Saturday, to Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. Mr. Brian Russell, son of the poet, and his wife accompanied the remains from Bournemouth, but Mr. Dermot Russell, the second son of the port who is travelling from the United States will not arrive until to-morrow. He was born in Lurgan 67 years ago, but was educated in Dublin.

Wife of Rev. James Grubb
     The deepest sympathy, by no means confined to the members of the Methodist Church in whose affections he holds so secure a place, will go out to Rev. James Grubb, Belfast, who, under unexpected circumstances, has been bereaved by the death of his wife. Mrs. Grubb, we regret to intimate, passed away suddenly at an early hour this morning in Bangor, whither she had gone at Eastertide on holiday. An accidental injury to her foot had laid her aside during the past few days, but it was thought that with the necessary rest she would be out and about again in due course. A heart attack, however, intervened and the patient did not rally. Mrs. Grubb was a gracious and estimable lady, who was beloved everywhere she moved, and the news of her passing will be received with unfeigned sorrow. Not only to Mr. Grubb, to whom the blow is so heavy, but to Miss Grubb (formerly a missionary in West Africa), and the married daughter in England will their sympathy go out. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Grubb, Lieutenant Donald Grubb, 5th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, laid down his life at Gallipoli in August, 1915.
     Rev. J. Grubb, Funeral at Dundonald
The Methodist Church paid its last tributes to one of its most highly respected clergymen, Rev. James Grubb, who was called Home on Thursday last, at his funeral this afternoon. Ill health necessitated his retirement as a supernumerary in 1923, when he went to live at Portaferry. Later he removed to the Knock district. Mr. Grubb's only son, Lieut. Donald Grubb, 5th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was killed at Gallipoli in 1915, and Mrs. Grubb, who was a Miss Reid, of Liverpool, died suddenly in 1935. Two daughters survive. They are Mrs. Anderson, of Hull, and Miss Doris Grubb, who was formerly a missionary in West Africa. Deep sympathy will go out to the bereaved daughters. Prior to the removal of the remains from deceased's late residence, Newburn, Kensington Road, Knock, Belfast, a short service was held. Scripture was read by Rev. R. H. Gallagher, B.A., Knock Methodist Church, who was a very close friend of Rev. Mr. Grubb, and who was most assiduous in his attendance upon him during his illness. Following a prayer offered by Rev. A. E. Glanville, the remains were reverently borne to Knock Methodist Church, and, as the procession entered the latter, Mendelssohn's voluntary, "O Rest in the Lord" was most sympathetically played by Mr. Cecil W. Nesbitt, organist. The remains were interred at Dundonald Cemetery.

24th July 1935 - Norah Lady Dunleath
     It was announced in Belfast yesterday that Norah Lady Dunleath, who last week underwent an operation in London for appendicitis, had died at Boxmoor, Newbury, the Berkshire residence of her son, the Hon. Harry Mulholland, Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons. Lady Dunleath was a daughter of the late Captain the Hon. Somerset Ward, a son of the third Viscount Bangor. She married Lord Dunleath in 1881, and was the mother of five children, of whom the third is the present Lord Dunleath. Her eldest son was killed in the war. Lady Dunleath received the O.B.E. for work in connection with war charities in County Down. She was a great animal lover and a lover of country life generally. A memorial service for Norah Lady Dunleath was held yesterday in Ballywalter Parish Church, It was conducted by the Rev. M. Archdale, M.A., O.B.E., vicar of the parish, and the lesson was read and prayers said by the Lord Primate of All-Ireland (Most Rev. Dr. d'Arcy).

26th July 1935 - Mr. Edwin Darley Hill

     We regret to announce the death of Mr. Edwin Darley Hill, which took place last night at Ballynascreen House, Greenisland. Mr. Hill was one of the leading figures in the Irish banking world until his retirement in 1928, after fifty-four years service with the Northern Banking Company, Ltd., during twenty-three of which he held the position of managing director. The second son of the late Mr. Adam Hill, formerly of H.M. Customs, Belfast, the deceased gentleman was educated at the Coleraine Academical and Royal Belfast Academical Institutions, and entered the bank as a junior clerk in 1874 when only fifteen years of age, the greater part of his early career being served in the head office. In the early eighties he occupied the post of cashier in the then newly-opened branch in Royal Avenue, Belfast, and in 1888 he was appointed confidential clerk to the directors, and three years later joined the staff of a branch, in Dublin, as pro-manager. He succeeded to the managership of the Grafton Street branch in 1896, and in 1904 he returned to the head office on his appointment as general manager. The following year, on the retirement of Mr. Thomas Montgomery, he was elected to the vacancy on the Board of Directors, a position he relinquished in 1928 to the great regret of his colleagues, with whom he was deservedly popular. The highest distinctions in the Irish banking world had been conferred on him. He was a Vice-President, Fellow and special representative of the Council of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland, and it is noteworthy that in 1913 he was elected President of the Institute, a singular honour, as this was the only instance up to that time in which the rule of electing the Governor of the Bank of Ireland to the position had been waived in the history of the Institute. It was during Mr. Hill's term of management in Dublin that the present magnificent banking premises in Grafton Street were projected. The distinction of honorary fellowship was conferred on Mr. Hill in recognition of his services to the Institute and to the interests of Irish banking in general. He was also a member of the Committee of the British Bankers' Association as representative of the Northern group of Irish banks. My Hill took an active part in negotiations connected with the readjustment of the note issues of the Irish banks as embodied in the Irish Free State Currency Act, 1927, and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland), Act, 1928, the duty falling on him as chairman of the Northern group of banks to preside at many meetings of importance relating to the new legislation. Mr. Hill's family has had a long and honourable connection with the Northern Bank. His maternal great grandfather, Mr. Thomas Stott, the poet of Dromore, was one of the signatories to the original deed of co-partnership of 1824, while his grandfather, Mr. Adam Hill, who was one of the first stockbrokers to do business in Belfast in or about 1820, for some forty years from its establishment held the post of notary to the bank, and on his death was succeeded by Mr. Hill's father. The family has, therefore, an unbroken connection with the bank since its formation. Mr. Hill complied the bank's centenary book "1824-1924." In his younger days Mr. Hill was well known in local musical circles, and for several years he was a member of the Philharmonic Orchestra. He was associated with Sir Charles Rafter, a former chief constable of Birmingham, himself a Belfast man, in the wood-wind section of the orchestra as a flautist, and, in addition, found scope for his talent as an exponent of the kettledrums. Campanology also found in him an interested votary, and on more than one occasion lectures delivered by him on this fascinating subject have been enjoyed by appreciative audiences. In sport Mr. Hill's activities centred on rowing, and advancing years had not diminished his keen interest in it. He had been for a number of years president of the Belfast Boat Club. Two of Mr. Hill's sons volunteered for active service during the war, and one made the supreme sacrifice. Mr. Adam Cyril D. Hill was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (Royal North Downs), and on proceeding to France was attached to the 7th Battalion. His daughter, Ina, wife of the Rev. Richard Bird, D.S.O., M.A. died. He served with distinction at the battles of Wytschaete-Messines, 1917, Ypres 1917, and Lange Marck; and was posted missing with five other officers on 16th August, 1917. His brother, Mr. A. F. T. D. Hill, passed for the Queen's University Officers' Training Corps, but was rejected for active service on account of defective vision. Mr. Hill's youngest son, Mr. Eric H. D. Hill, B.A., a graduate of Cambridge University, is in the service of the bank, carrying on the traditions of the family connection into the fourth generation. He is a well-known tennis player.

Mr. W. J. McKeown
     The community in Glenavy and district has sustained quite a shock in the unexpected removal through death of Mr. Wm. James McKeown, one of its most respected merchants and residents. Mr. McKeown was the subject of a seizure in his home shortly after he had risen to attend business as usual, and the medical aid that was instantly summoned was unavailing. The last gentleman, who was a native of Aghalee, had been in business in Glenavy for over 50 years and was manager of the successful grocery and general business of Messrs. M. L. and S. Johnston Ltd., was widely known and greatly esteemed. The Methodist Church in particular has suffered a grievous loss in his removal, as he was actively interested in its affairs. He was for several years the circuit steward of Antrim and Glenavy Circuit, of which the superintendent is Rev. John A. Walton, M.A., ex-President of the Conference and chairman of the Belfast district. Mr. McKeown, whose demise is deeply mourned, is survived by his widow and family of three daughters and one son, to whom sincere sympathy goes out.

Mr. F. J. Moffett
     The high esteem in which Mr. Frederic J. Moffett was held in church, musical and social circles was evidenced at his funeral on Saturday, from Cromwell Road, Belfast, to Newtownbreda, at which a large number of former colleagues and other friends were present. The service at the house and graveside was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Woodburn, M.A., of Fitzroy Avenue Presbyterian Church, where Mr. Moffett was organist and choirmaster for over 30 years. The chief mourners were Mrs. Moffett (widow), Mr. T. H. Moffett, Manchester (brother), Mr. J. L. Moffett and Mr. Lewers Moffett (cousins), Mr. John G. McMullen, Mr. Harold McMullen, and Mr Hugh Hill (brother-in-law), Mr. Thomas G. M. Mullen, Mr. O. Harold McMullen, Mr. D. McMullen, and Mr. H. McMullen (nephews). Others present included Very Rev. Dr. T. A. Smyth, Rev. W. A. Watson, clerk of the General Assembly; Rev. Robert Anderson, M.A.; Rev. William Chestnutt, M.A.; Rev. Professor Paul, M.A., D.D.; Rev. Professor Haire, M.A., D.D.; Rev. Gordon D. Erskine, B.D.; Rev. W. J. Harrison, B.A.; Rev. J. K. Cronne (Portaferry), Rev. J. Withers, Mr. W. T. Ewing, representing the C.P.A.; Mr. George Crawford and Mr. Frank Carlisle, representing the session and committee of Fitzroy Avenue Church; Mr. David Irwin, J.P.; Captain C. J. Brennan, Dr. Norman Hay, Mr. R. Orton, Mr. James Woods, his Honour Judge Thompson, K.C., Recorder of Belfast; Professor W. W. D. Thompson, Professor McElderry, Mr. Stanley Drean, Mr. Albert Campbell, and Mr. J. Humbert Craig, R.H.A.

23rd July 1935 - Mrs. Basil de Selincourt

     . . who wrote 20 novels under the pen name of Anne Douglas Sedgwick, died on Monday at the age of 62 at Hampstead. Mrs. de Selincourt came to Britain from America when she was nine. Her first novel was written at the age of 22 and the last - "Philippa" - was published in 1932, her best known books being "Tante" and "The Little French Girl."

Rev. Mark Guy Pearse
     The death took place yesterday of the Rev. Mark Guy Pearse, one of the most widely known Wesleyan preachers in England, at his home in West End-lane, Kilburn, London, N.W. He was 87 years old, and had been confined to bed for several months. He was a quietly humorous man, with ever twinkling eyes and a polished Cornish wit. His preaching career covered a period of more than 60 years, and during that time he preached at least 5,000,000 words. Originally it was intended that he should be a doctor, and he studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, but he became instead a minister, an author, humorist, and occasional poet. As a writer he charmed Queen Victoria. After reading his "Daniel Quorm" she ordered that every book from his pen should be added to her library. Constant pain make it impossible for him to continue writing when he became ill in June last, but even then his brain was not idle. He would sit in bed composing and reciting poetry and telling anecdotes. One of his last sermons was preached in Cornwall in 1927, and hundreds of his beloved Cornish fisherfolk heard him. His greatest ministerial work was in connection with the West London Mission, where he preached at St. James's Hall for 14 years.

Mrs. Richard Lee aka Curtis Yorke
     The death is announced of Mrs. Richard Lee, who wrote many novels under the name of "Curtis Yorke." Her first was "That Little Girl," published in 1886, and her last, "All About Judy," published about three years ago. She was the daughter of Mr. John J. Long, of Glasgow, and widow of Mr. John W. Richmond Lee, a mining engineer. She died at her home in St. Quintin Avenue, Kensington.

Mr. H. Begbie

     Only on his death yesterday was it definitely revealed that Mr. Harold Begbie, the famous author, was, in fact, the "Gentleman With a Duster." Soon after the war a book of political sketches, "The Mirrors of Downing Street", attracted widespread attention. They were written by "A Gentleman With a Duster." This book was followed by a series of equally frank sketches of ecclesiastical figures under the title of "Painted Windows." That Mr. Begbie was the author of these two famous books was formally admitted for the first time yesterday by his friend and publisher, Mr. Charles Boon, of Mills and Boon. Mr. Begbie, who was 58, died at his home in Ringwood, Hants. He was the son of a clergyman, but he really belonged to a military family, for both his grandfathers and one of his uncles were generals, and two of his brothers also entered the army. He was born in 1871 at Farnham St. Martin, Suffolk, and as a boy showed promise of literary ability.

Mr. Isaac McElroy
     The death took place at his residence, Mount Oriel, Newtownbreda, on Wednesday, of Mr. Isaac McElroy, who for many years has carried on a flourishing grocery business in University Avenue, Belfast. Mr. McElroy had been in his usual good health until about a week ago, and the news of his death, which was unexpected, will come as a shock to his many business friends in the city. Before starting on his own account at University Avenue, he had filled the position of manager in a number of Belfast concerns, his last appointments being with Messrs. S. D. Bell & Co., Ann Street, and later in the grocery department of Messrs. Braithwaite & McCann, Ltd., Ormeau Road, Belfast. He built up a very fine business, and enjoyed the confidence of all with whom he came into contact. His ability was recognised by his fellow businessmen in the city, and for two years, 1920 and 1921, he filled the position of president of the Belfast and North of Ireland Grocers' Association, Ltd. Mr. McElroy was connected with the Masonic Order, being a P.M. and treasurer of Symons Masonic Lodge, and he was also a member of Avonmore Royal Arch Chapter. The deep sympathy of a wide circle of friends will go out to the members of the bereaved family.

Dr. T. S. Hogg
     A wide circle of friends will learn with regret of the death of Dr. Thomas Simpson Hogg, who passed away yesterday after a few weeks' illness, at his residence, Dunmore, Ormeau Road, Belfast. The deceased gentleman, who was a native of Moneymore, County Londonderry, practised for over forty years in the Ormeau Road district and enjoyed the confidence of the residents as a skilled and successful physician. He gained his B.A. degree with first-class honours in Queen's University, Belfast, and graduated in medicine in 1888 at Edinburgh. The late Dr. Hogg won the respect and esteem of all who knew him by his personal charm, while as a medical adviser he was distinguished in his profession, and cheered and comforted his patients by his kindly manner and spirit of optimism. A man of wide reading and cultured tastes, he kept himself fully informed of the advance of medical science. On account of the extensive nature of his practice, Dr. Hogg found it necessary some years ago to take into partnership Dr. Harold Black, and their clientele was largely increased. Dr. Hogg belonged to the Fitzroy Avenue Presbyterian Church, and was a valued member of the congregation, contributing generously to its funds and charities. He had but little time for recreation, and an occasional game of golf over the Ormeau links was his principal relaxation from duty. He leaves his widow, two sons - Dr. Gerald Hogg, of University Square, and Mr. J. Hogg, B.Sc., of Belfast electricity department, and a daughter, to whom widespread sympathy will be extended.

Mr. John McWatters

     The death took place at an early hour this morning of Mr. John McWatters (72), head of the well known Belfast bakery which trades under the name of J. McWatters & Co. Ltd. An outstanding tribute was paid to Mr. John McWatters to-day when all that had been mortal of him was removed from his late residence Five Beeches, Annadale Avenue, Belfast, and laid to rest in Knockbreda churchyard. The chief mourners included Messrs. Charles McWatters and Frederick McWatters (sons), Samuel McWatters (brother), James McWatters (nephew), C. V. Hill, Norman Rea, and Edgar Boyd (son-in-law), and W. Baine. Mr. McWatters was born at Derriaghy. Mr. McWatters, whose wife predeceased him, is survived by his two sons, Charles and Frederick, and six daughters, three of the latter, who are married, being Mrs. Norman Rea, Mrs. C. V. Hill, and Mrs. Edgar Boyd.
Mrs. John McWatters
     The recent death of Mrs. John McWatters, who was a member of the Christ Church congregation, was referred to yesterday at the evening service by the Rev. L. P. Story, B.A. He said that during the past few days there had been taken away from them one of the old and valued friends of the congregation, Mrs. McWatters. She was in the true sense of the word a Christian and a model mother. The funeral was from her residence, The Beeches, Annadale Park to her last resting place at Knockbreda yesterday. General sympathy is felt with the deceased lady's husband, Mr. John McWatters, the head of the famous bakery firm in Cromac Street, and his family in their sad bereavement. Mrs. McWatters, whose last illness was very brief, had been known and esteemed for many years as the possessor of amiable qualities which endeared her not only to the members of her own respected family but to all who had the privilege of her acquaintance. The Chief mourners were: Mr. John McWatters, husband; Messrs. Charles and Frederick McWatters, sons; Mr. Samuel McWatters, brother-in-law; Mr. James McWatters, nephew; Mr. Charles V. Hill, Mr. Edgar Boyd, and Mr. Norman K. Rea, sons-in-law.

    
Mr. William J. Locke

     After months of illness Mr. William J. Locke, the celebrated English novelist, died at his home in Paris on Thursday night, aged 67. His demise was accelerated by collapse following an operation six weeks ago, the second of its kind within this year. Since April his recovery has been hopeless. But, although very weak, he never lost consciousness. He was able to read a little during his illness and even occasionally to smoke a cigarette. Miss Sheila Locke, his adopted daughter, was formerly Miss Baines, the 16 year old daughter of dear friends, who entered the novelist's family at her own wish. Mr. Locke was born in Barbados, and was at St. John's College, Cambridge. From 1897 to 1907 he was the secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is survived by his wife, Aimee Maxwell Locke.
Miss Sheila Rosemary Locke Married
     In deference to the expressed wish of the famous novelist, Mr. W. J. Locks, who had adopted her as his daughter, that the wedding should not be postponed by his death, Miss Sheila Locks was married yesterday at St. mark's, North Audley Street, W., to Mr. Guy Currier, of Boston, U.S.A. The late Mr. Locke through his last illness manifested great interest in all the arrangements for the marriage. The bride wore a gown of silver tissue, with a long train of the same material, her tulle veil being fastened with a wreath of orange blossoms and pearls. Mrs. Locke gave her adopted daughter away, and the bridesmaids were Miss Betty Hulton and Miss Irene Bersi.

11th November 1933 - Mr. J. A. R. Cairns
     Mr. J. A. R. Cairns, the well known London Metropolitan Police Court magistrate, and a native of Belfast, died at his home at Walton-on-Thames last night. He had been suffering from influenza, which developed from a chill caught while watching a football match on Saturday last. A son of the late Mr. John Cairns, Belfast, he was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Queen's College, Belfast. "Days of my Youth"  In an article published in 1926, Mr. Cairns wrote :- I was fortunate in my ancestry and blessed in my immediate progenitors. Even now, looking back from the uplands of half a century's experience of men and things, I still regard my father as the noblest gentleman I ever knew. As a child and youth, my mother enshrined all that motherhood should be, so much so that until her passing at eighty-seven I consulted her in all my difficulties. In my home there was an appreciation of learning. That influence told early, and the talks about the achievements of friends and relations in the world of scholarship sowed seeds that brought forth fruit. In Belfast in those days there were less social divisions than perhaps exist to-day, and the town was infinitely less "Anglicised." It has now taken on a complexion and tone of startling resemblance to Leeds or Newcastle-on-Tyne. At the Model School was found a "clearing-house" of youth. It deserved its title, and was a public school in the true sense. In my time Mr. Mann Harbinson was the headmaster, and amongst the principal teachers were men who would have been an ornament to Eton. At fifteen I was fortunate in going to the historic school "The Royal Academical Institution," where I devoted myself chiefly to classics, and managed to win the first prize in Latin. At seventeen I matriculated in the Royal University of Ireland, and attended lectures at Queen's College, Belfast. I graduated with honours in history, economics, and jurisprudence. For three years I studied theology, Hebrew, and the kindred subjects associated with a theological career, and after a further year in the College of the Presbyterian Church of England, I was ordained to the historic St. James's Church, Alnwick, founded in 1668. On Friday, 6th June, 1930, Mr. Cairns was entertained to luncheon by the Northern Ireland Solicitors' Club in the Carlton Restaurant, Belfast. Mr. R. Bryan MacKeown presided. On the evening of the same day Mr. Cairns addressed the General Assembly. Mr. Cairns is survived by two daughters.

5th October 1933 - Mr. E. Temple Thurston

     We regret to announce that Mr. E. Temple Thurston, the novelist and playwright, died at his home in London yesterday. He was 53. While playing golf about three weeks ago he caught a chill, which developed into pneumonia. What was probably the last of the humorous articles he wrote appeared in The Daily Mail on February 20. It dealt with death-bed marriages. He began writing at the age of 16 Mr. temple Thurston dated his working life from a year earlier, when his father took him from Queen's College, Cork, and "placed" him in a brewery in that city. It seemed to be an inspiring environment, for the ambitious boy contrived, while learning the art of making beer, to produce a "mixed brew" of verses, essays, articles, and short stories. Nobody was interested, however, and he was driven to paying for the publication of his verses. These came to the notice of his father, who told him to take a month off and try to satisfy him as to his fitness for the literary life. "During that time," he has recorded, "I wrote a lot of miscellaneous matter, including 1,700 lines of verse, which I read over to my father. After that he did not say a single further word about my going back to the brewery." At length Mr. Temple Thurston came to London, and for a year worked in a yeast factory in Bermondsey. His next job was that of a traveller for an electrical supply firm, but after a few months "on the road" he walked into Fleet Street with the determination of becoming a journalist. He was engaged by the London Evening News, and very soon distinguished himself by interviewing Smyth Pigott, the "Abode of Love" leader. Presently he fell to writing plays, and by the time he was 26 he had left Fleet Street to concentrate on the production of novels. He was thrice married.

16th September 1935 - Rev. Silas Kitto Hocking

     . . the novelist, who died in London yesterday at the age of 85, at his home, Heatherlow Avenue Road, Highgate, London, published his first book in 1878 and kept on writing until shortly before his death. A little over three months ago he contributed to the Daily Sketch series, "Things I hate." He was born at St. Stephen's, Cornwall. He had a brother Joseph Hocking, also a writer. Married Miss Esther Lloyd, daughter of a Liverpool merchant. He had a 2 daughters, one called Mrs. Tideman. He was the author of over 100 books. He had a son.

Mr. James B. Thompson

Irish Methodist Church Record, Edited by Rev. James M. Alley, February 1921
     Tribute to the Late Mr. James B. Thompson. . . who was a great gift of God to the Methodist Church in Ireland. To very many ministers and laymen, life can never be quite the same again now that he is gone. His home life was ideal in its character. How he loved those whom God has given him, and how half his life went when his only son, Crawford, was killed in the war!

31st October 1935 - Mr. R. J. Robinson
     We regret to announce the death, which took place this morning, of Mr. Robert J. Robinson, "Island View," Cable Road, Whitehead, a member of the firm of Messrs. Robinson & Gillespie, wholesale warehousemen, 91 King Street and College Square North, Belfast. The deceased, who was the only son of the late Mr. David Robinson, was identified with the town of Whitehead from his boyhood. He served his apprenticeship to the drapery business with Messrs. Nicholson & Morrow, Belfast, and for some years he was traveller for that firm. Later he represented Messrs. James Ireland & Co., May Street. A good number of years ago Mr. Robinson joined Mr. Gillespie, also of Whitehead, in partnership. He was greatly esteemed in commercial circles not only for his sterling integrity, but his kindliness of disposition. He was well known both in the city and throughout the Province. The late Mr. Robinson was identified with Whitehead Presbyterian Church from its inception in 1899, and when the church was taken into connection with the General Assembly two years later, he was selected for appointment to the eldership in the congregation. He rendered devoted service to the Church, particularly it work among the young. He retained the secretaryship of the Sabbath school for over 36 years, and was unfailing in his attendance. Deceased was at business as usual during the week, and his unexpected demise has caused widespread regret among his many friends. The deceased is survived by his widow, a Belfast lady, to whom deep sympathy will go out. On Saturday afternoon the funeral took place from his late residence, Island View, Cable Road, Whitehead, of Mr. Robert J. Robinson. Prior to the removal of the remains a service was conducted by Rev. Robert Caldwell, B.A., Waterside Presbyterian Church, Derry (a former minister of Whitehead Presbyterian Church), and Rev. W. F. S. Stewart, M.A., Whitehead. At the committal service at Ballycarry Revs. Robert Caldwell, W. F. S. Stewart, and Thomas McDermott, B.A., Albert Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast, officiated. The senior minister of Whitehead Presbyterian Church, Rev. D. B. Knox, was also present. The chief mourners were - Messrs. John Barr, Samuel Henderson, John Dalton, John Elliott, and David Elliott (brothers-in-law) John Perry (uncle), David Calwell, Robert Calwell, Robin Henderson, Samuel Henderson, Cecil Henderson, B.A.; Dalton and Desmond Dalton (nephews), and Robert Johnston (cousin).

1st April 1933 - Miss Dorothy Massingham
     All her friends are deeply depressed at the tragic end of Miss Dorothy Massingham. Death in most tragic circumstances has come to her very much as it did to Ronald Mackenzie. Miss Massingham seemed to have a great future as a dramatist. She was already a well known figure on the stage, playing lead at the Old Vic and at Shakespeare festivals at Stratford. Knowing all there is to know about stage technique, and inheriting from her father, the brilliant journalist, a fine literary touch, she turned her mind to the writing of plays, and her new piece, "The Lake," at the Westminster Theatre, has already established itself as one of the hits of the season. She wrote another full-length play which was given a trial run recently at Manchester and accorded so enthusiastic a welcome that arrangements have already been made to put it on in London. Miss Massingham had been in bad health for a long time, but she seemed to be better recently, and only a night or two ago went to see her own play. "The Lake," for the first time.

Katherine Tynan

     The death of Miss Katherine Tynan at her London home in St. John's Road, Wimbledon, last night, after a short illness, removes one of the most industrious women writers of the day. Born at Clondalkin, Co. Dublin, and educated at Drogheda Convent, she wrote and published a poem when only seventeen years of age. Two years later she presented her first novel to the public. Both met with encouraging acceptance, and for the succeeding forty years there has been a steady flow of poems and novels from her pen. Her list of publications, indeed, is formidable yet none of her work bears any evidence of being scamped or hurried. All her books show much literary charm, and most of them deal sympathetically and with clear insight into Irish life and customs, and reveal her fondness for animals, especially dogs. Miss Tynan was married thirty-seven years ago to Mr. H. A. Hinkson, who died in 1919. In "Who Who's" she describes her recreations as "talking to a good listener, the companionship of dogs, collecting china, and the society of my children." Her Irish home was at Herbert Lodge, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Katharine Tynan was buried yesterday at Kensal Green Cemetery, her grave lies next to that of Alice Meynell, another noted Irish poet and writer. Those present at the service included Mr. J. Dulanty, the High Commissioner of the Irish Free State, Sir Thomas Molony, former Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Sir George Young, Mr. Wilfred Meynell, and Mr. Maurice Healy.

Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison (Lucas Malet)
     . . the novelist, died early yesterday in Tenby (Pembrokeshire). The novelist was born in 1852, the younger daughter of Charles Kingsley, the famous author of "The Water Babies" and "Westward Ho!" It was little wonder that a girl brought up in this atmosphere should follow the example of her family, who were said to be "born with ink in their veins." At 22 she married the Rev. William Harrison, for some time her father's curate, and later rector of Clovelly, North Devon. Some of "Lucas Malet's" novels raised a storm of criticism. The publication in 1901 of "The History of Sir Richard Calmody" brought her a torrent of letters, many of them coarsely abusive. Her first novel, "Mrs. Lorimer," was published in 1882, and her last, "The Dogs of Want" in 1924, but in 42 years of literary activity she had published only 17 novels. Perhaps her greatest successes were "Colonel Enderby's Wife" and "The Wages of Sin."

15th July 1933 - Mrs. Clifford Mills
     In became known on Thursday that Mrs. Clifford Mills, the dramatist, whose two principal plays, "Where the Rainbow Ends" and "The Luck of the Navy," have been played in almost every part of the British Empire, died in a London nursing home on July 2nd at the age of 70. For very many years this writer, whose romance of St. George and the Dragon has given untold delight to tens of thousands, had lived in comparative seclusion in a Bloomsbury flat. And she died as quietly as she had lived (writes Harold Conway, our Theatre Correspondent), so quietly that not until last night did her friends discover that she had been buried in Highgate Cemetery on July 5th. Her real name was Emilie Clifford, and her daughter, the wife of Major Shillington, of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, is now in Hong-Kong.

7th October 1933 Kathlyn Hilliard

     Miss Kathlyn Hilliard, who passed away in a nursing home at Worthing on Saturday, had many friends in Belfast. She was a gifted and versatile artist, and as charming off as on the stage. Her last appearance at the Belfast Opera House was in "Bitter Sweet" over a year ago. In 1930 Northern Ireland theatre-goers had the opportunity of seeing her in two distinct and different studies - first, as the heroine in "La Vie Parisienne," and later as the leading lady in Schubert's "Lilac Time." Born in Glasgow, Miss Hilliard was educated just outside Paris, and afterwards lived with a brother in Algiers. She spoke French fluently, and this accomplishment added to her personal achievement in "La Vie Parisienne."  Miss Hilliard, who was 37, made her first stage appearance at Wolverhampton in 1918. In 1925, after a second appearance as Polly in a revival of "The Beggar's Opera," she joined the British National Opera Company as principal soprano, and remained with them from 1925 to 1928. During the 1927 B.N.O.C. season she appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Deceased married Mr. George Baker, the well known tenor. The funeral will be at Golder's Green Crematorium on Wednesday next.

Miss L. G. Moberly
     Miss Lucy G. Moberly, one of the most prolific writers of her day, has died at her home, Circus Road Mansions, St. John's Wood, London, N.W., at the age of 70. She wrote 57 novels and a great number of short stories for magazines. Her best known works included "Honour Bright" "The Key of Gold" etc.

26th September 1933 Mrs. A. M. Williamson
     . . the famous novelist, died in tragic circumstances in a Bath hotel on Sunday after doctors had made an all-night fight to save her life. When no response could be obtained to knocks on her door, it was broken down on Saturday and she was found unconscious. Medical aid was immediately summoned and oxygen applied throughout Saturday night. Mrs. Williamson made a practice of periodically visiting Bath in order to lay a wreath on the grave of her husband, who is buried there. Mr. C. N. Williamson died on 3rd October, 1920, and it is believed that she intended to stay until the thirteenth anniversary of what she had always described as the greatest loss of her life. Mrs. Williamson was American by birth. She collaborated with her husband, Mr. C. N. Williamson, but after his death in 1920, she wrote "The Lure of Monte Carlo," etc. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Williamson travelled extensively, and became an enthusiastic follower of the activities of the French Foreign Legion. Recently she defriended (befriended?) an ex-convict who was granted the King's Pardon for his defence of a warder in the Dartmoor Prison mutiny, and arranged for his enlistment in the Foreign Legion.

18th December 1933 Mr. Robert W. Chambers

      Two well known writers died during the week-end, Mr. Robert W. Chambers, the American author of 40 romantic novels, who was 68 and born at Brooklyn in 1865, and had been ill for some time, and Mr. Louis Joseph Vance (54), a prolific writer of adventure and mystery stories, who was burned to death in New York through falling asleep with a lighted cigarette in his mouth.

Mr. Crosbie Garstin

. . a novelist, drowned off the South Devon coast while making for his yacht in a small collapsible boat. He was 43.

Mr. Clement King Shorter
     . . the famous author, died late on Friday night at Great Missenden, Bucks. Mr. Shorter was for many years editor of the "Sphere." He was also a distinguished literary critic and an authority on the Brontes. The deceased, who was born in London, in 1867, was originally a civil servant in the Exchequer and Audit Department at Somerset House, but he resigned this work in order to become assistant editor of the Penny Illustrated Paper. He later became editor of the "Illustrated London News," and founder of other pictorial publications. The late Mr. Shorter was twice married, his first wife being Dora, daughter of the late Dr. George Sigerson, who was an authoress of some distinction. Deceased was one of the founders of the Omar Khayyam Club and ex-president of the Johnson Club.

12th May 1933 Mr. J. C. Stobart
     After a long illness, the death occurred yesterday of Mr. J. C. Stobart, who has been described as one of the Grand Old Men of British Broadcasting. His voice was known to millions of listeners. He joined the B.B.C. shortly after its formation as Director of Education, but ultimately gave most of his time to the religious side of broadcasting. It was he who was responsible for the now famous Sunday night Epilogue, and he devised and broadcast the "Grand Good Night," in which each New Year's Eve, for the past eight years, he sent out friendly greetings to the country and Empire. He was ill last New Year's Eve and it was in a gentle voice, husky with weakness, that he wished good cheer in the year to come. B.B.C. engineers had placed a microphone at his bedside so that he could give his "Grand Good Night." In it he struck a serious note in which he said, "The only thing not yet tried is the Christian religion, to love God first, and then to love your neighbour as yourself."

Mr. Donn-Byrne

     . . the Irish writer who was killed by the overturning of his motor-car while driving near his Irish home, Coolmain Castle, County Cork, had a career as romantic as any of his own stories. He has died at 39 a rich man, with an established and increasing reputation, but much of his early life as a writer was a grim struggle for recognition and the bare means of subsistence. Mr. Byrne only arrived at Coolmain Castle last Tuesday. On Monday night at 7 p.m. he went out for a drive in a newly purchased motor-car along the sea coast near Bandon. Later, when he did not return, his car was found by his woman secretary. It had been overturned on the shore near the road, and Mr. Byrne was lying beside it dead. Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in New York during a visit of his Irish parents to America, but he was brought to Ireland as an infant and spent his boyhood years in County Armagh. He began to write early, but meeting with no encouragement at home returned to America. Still failing to earn more than a scanty living by his pen, he, nevertheless, fell in love with a penniless Irish girl, Dorothea Cadogan, who cheerfully shared his poverty. Suddenly fortune took a complete change. Mrs. Byrne wrote a play, "Enter Madame." It was a great success. The young couple suddenly found themselves affluent. Donn-Byrne wrote books. The discerning critics discovered in him a new type of Irish genius. Success followed on success. "Stories Without Women" was the first book, and others that have made a name especially in America are "Foolish Matrons," "Blind Raftery," and "Hangman's Cross." It is their wistfully poetical descriptive passages that make their charm, though they have, too, an element of romantic excitement. Yesterday I heard some interesting details about the last days of Mr. Brian Donn Byrne, the Irish novelist, whose autobiography is published in this page. "It is barely a week since he gave up his house in Surrey to return to his Irish home, Coolmain Castle, Kilbrittain, County Cork," Mr. J. B. Murray, of Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., told me. He had just completed a long historical novel which may prove to be his greatest book. It deals with the period when Castlereagh was a power in English and in European politics. "Only the other day, too, he revised the proofs of 'Destiny Bay,' a novel teeming with tales of Irish life, which is to be published this autumn. "Perhaps the last thing he wrote was the dedication to his four children:- For Hedda St. John, Jane, Olive, and Brian Oge. Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn and the hole of the pit whence ye are digged . . . for the Lord shall comfort Zion; He will comfort all His waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the Lord.
Details of the Accident - About seven o'clock in the evening Mr. Byrne decided to go for a ride in his car, which he had only recently purchased and brought over from his surrey home a few days ago. He asked Mrs. Byrne to accompany him, but as she was fatigued after a journey from Cork he took with him his secretary, Miss Birket. They drove from Coolmain to Courtmacsherry, about seven miles distant. On the return journey the car appeared to steer badly and ran into a fence, but was righted. A little later it almost collided with another car, and Miss Birket stepped on the brakes in time to prevent an accident. Miss Birket asked Mr. Byrne to return to Timoleague, but Mr. Byrne refused. Miss Birkett them got out to walk, as they were only two miles from Coolmain. Mr. Byrne went on in the car. After walking about half a mile along the shore road Miss Birket saw the car overturned in the sea. She took off her shoes, waded up to the vehicle, and tried to release Mr. Byrne. Her cries for assistance brought to the scene a number of men from the little fishing village near by. They quickly got Mr. Byrne out and carried him ashore, where he was found to be dead.

Mr. Walter Raymond

      Well known for his novels of the West Country, Mr. Walter Raymond (79) died in a Southampton nursing home yesterday. Mr. Raymond was famed throughout the country as the reciter of the works of Barnes, the Dorset poet, and was a popular figure in war-time camps, which he visited to entertain soldiers. West Country sketches were his forte. He was son of a Yeovil glove manufacturer. His last work was the folk play, "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree," published in 1928.

Dr. Robert Matthew Bronte
     The death took place at his home at Harrow, yesterday, at the age of 52, of Dr. Robert Matthew Bronte, the eminent pathologist. He had been in ill-health for some time. Dr. Bronte, who was a native of Armagh city, served his apprenticeship in the apothecary shop of Mr. Obadiah Ternan in Enniskillen, and while qualifying for his medical degree practised as a chemist. On the death of Professor McWeeney he was called to give evidence for the Crown in all the important murder trials in Ireland, and frequently appeared in Ulster Courts. He was a licentiate both of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and for the same year was a member of the staff of the latter in Dublin. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the war, and afterwards set up in practice in London as a consulting pathologist. In 1918, Dr. Bronte was appointed assistant to Sir Bernard Spilsbury under the Home Office in London, and his testimony was of out-standing importance in many murder mysteries. Dr. Bronte, who was a member of the family to which the famous Bronte sisters belong, married a daughter of the late Mr. James Harvey, Enniskillen, and his sister, the late Mrs. Parker, resided at Holland Park, Belfast, until her death.   It is not generally known that the Rev. Patrick Bronte was a native of County Down. He belonged to the peasantry, but must have been of uncommon character, for by weaving and teaching he made his way to Cambridge, where his studies were pursued with a view to the clerical career which he adopted. It is noted that the family name was Brunty, but the future incumbent changed it to Bronte when he entered the University. It was during his occupancy of the parsonage of Haworth that his girls - Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, began to weave imaginary tales. Their home beside the churchyard was bleak and solitary, the wide expanse of moorland unfriendly, and, having no companions of their own age, they lived in a world of their own. It was here Charlotte wrote "Jane Eyre," Emily "Wuthering Heights," and Ann "Agnes Grey." According to the story and the play the Rev. Patrick Bronte had little Celtic sympathy. He was a hard man, and it is amazing how his daughters fostered such intellectual enthusiasm under his rugged influence.

Mr. Augustine Birrell
     With great regret the British public will to-day learn of the death of Mr. Augustine Birrell, who took the literary world by storm nearly 50 years ago when he published his once well-known book "Obiter Dicta." It was a collection of urbane essays which unkind critics declared had been written for mediocre people to console them for their mediocrity, but which had very real merits without any claim to profundity. Thus it came to pass that this gentle, genial man of letters became Irish Secretary in Mr. Asquith's Administration, and in the Great War found himself doomed to deal with murder and civil war in Dublin. He failed, and fled from the asperities of public life back to that world of books which he so loved. He was not of the race of those who can ride wild horses or tame tigers, and his true vocation was that of a witty and kindly literary commentator and essayist.  Mr. Birrell, who has passed away in his 84th year, visited Belfast on 22nd November, 1907, shortly after he had succeeded the late Viscount Bryce as Chief Secretary for Ireland.

29th September 1931 Sir William Orpen

The death took place in a London nursing home on Tuesday evening of Sir William Orpen, R.A., the famous Irish painter. During the war Sir William applied for military service, and was made an accountant in a military depot. He was commissioned to paint a portrait of Lord French, then Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, and was afterwards appointed official war artist, being given the rank of Major. On the conclusion of hostilities Sir William Orpen was commissioned to paint the official picture of the Peace Conference and this picture, "The Signing of the Treaty of Versailles," now hangs in the Imperial War Museum in London, and is considered to be his masterpiece. In 1918 he held an exhibition of magnificent war pictures and in that year received his knighthood. Many of the pictures were presented to the nation. In 1925 he was the recipient of the honorary degree of LL.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1928 he was elected an R.A. The son of a Dublin solicitor, Sir William Orpen was born on 27th November 1878, and is survived by Lady Orpen, three daughters and three brothers, one of whom is Mr. R. Caulfield Orpen, a well known architect residing in Dublin. Sir William was educated at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, and the Slade School. From 1921 he was President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers. He was also President of the National Portrait Society, member Beaux Arts, Antwerp, member of Academy of Arts and Letters, U.S.A. member Beaux Arts, Brussels, President of International Society, and member of New English Art Club. Sir William published two entertaining books - "An Onlooker in France" and "Stories of Old Oreland and Myself."

13th June 1937 Sir William Turner

     We regret to announce the death of the Right Hon. Sir William Turner, D.L., which occurred at his residence, Annadale House, Hampton Park, yesterday. Sir William underwent an operation in 1935, and for a time was able to resume his business and public duties, but failing health forced him to retire in May 1936. To some extent the story of "Dick Whittington" is applicable to Sir William Turner. From very small beginnings he built up one of the biggest businesses in Ulster and filled with distinction the office of Chief Magistrate of Belfast on six occasions. He was a son of the late Mr. James Turner, of Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone, and was educated in Belfast.

14th June 1937 Senator A. Quigley

     It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Senator Andrew Quigley, Cabin Hill Gardens, Knock, Belfast, who passed away at a nursing home this morning following a brief illness. The deceased gentleman was one of the retiring Unionist members of the Ulster Senate, and on Thursday last was nominated for re-election. He had been a member since July, 1930. His passing marks the third death in the family within eight months. In October last his sister, Mrs. R. Keith, died at sea while on her way from Canada to Belfast, and two months later, in December, his brother, Mr. John Quigley, J.P., passed away at his residence, 186 Lisburn Road, Belfast. The late Mr. Quigley joined the outdoor staff of the G.P.O. in 1886. Prior to that he was in the service of Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son, booksellers and newsagents, and his early training contributed to his adaptability and the efficient manner which he exercised in the control of the various departments of the Post Office entrusted to his care. He rose in time to the position of Assistant Superintendent, from which post he retired in 1929, having then completed 43 years' faithful service. As a supervising officer he earned the respect and goodwill of all sections of the staff, a fact which was clearly evidenced by the many tributes which were paid to him on the occasion of his retirement. On that occasion he was presented with a handsome writing bureau by the postmen's staff. He was the last surviving member of the staff of the old G.P.O. offices in Queen's Square. In later years he took an active interest in the Courts of Referees, appearing on behalf of claimants on many occasions. He was always ready to give advise and practical help, and was the means of finding work for many of the unemployed.

14th November 1935 - Rev. Thomas E. Gibson
     We regret to announce the death of the Rev. Thomas E. Gibson, which occurred yesterday at his residence, 17 Lansdowne Road, Belfast. Mr. Gibson, who had served the Methodist Church in Ireland for nearly half-a-century, was in good health up to the last, and in fact had arranged to preach in the new church hall at Glengormley on Sunday. Although he would have been 81 next month, Mr. Gibson was as active as many men twenty years his junior. As one of his colleagues stated, "he was full of vim - a sort of Peter Pan." A native of Westmeath, he received his theological training at the Methodist College, and entered the ministry in 1877. During his 44 years active association he travelled 14 circuits among them being Portadown, Armagh, Dublin, Dublin Central Mission, Balmoral (Osborne Park), and Clontarf, which was his last church as minister in charge. He retied in 1921. Mr. Gibson, whose death is a great loss to the Methodist Church, is survived by two sons and a daughter, his wife having pre-deceased him some years ago. To the family in their sudden bereavement deep sympathy will be extended. The funeral, which will be private, will take place to-morrow.

19th April 1935 Mr. James Kennedy, B.A.

     "Let us sing unto their Majesties" a Silver Jubilee march which will be heard often during the Jubilee celebrations, has been written by an Ulsterman, Mr. James Kennedy, B.A., who has already been responsible for such popular numbers as "Play to me, Gipsy," "Isle of Capri," and "Roll Along, Covered Waggon." Mr. Kennedy is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kennedy, Strand Road, Portstewart. His younger brother wrote, "Ole Faithful," "Tina" and other songs. Their father is a former Ulster police officer.

William Conor

     A characteristic Ulster portrait painter whose studies of Belfast mill girls are known throughout the world. Like most artists, had a hard struggle for recognition, and still suffers from Ulster's general apathy to the arts. The Conor touch is body and vigorous, in sharp contrast to the man. Modest and rather of the self-effacing type, Conor talks softly, smiles often, and works hard on canvas with oils to reveal that Ulster, although caring little for art, can produce portrait painters of the first rank. Had a picture "on the line" at Royal Academy, and has just finished a portrait of the Primate of All Ireland, which has attracted considerable attention. Admires and praises everything Ulster, from an Orange procession at the "Twelfth," to feminine beauty. Thinks Ulster girls are easily the prettiest in the world.

July 1935 - Mr. Laurence Whistler
     The Daily Mail understand that the King's gold medal for the best volume of verse published in 1934 has been awarded to Mr. Laurence Whistler, a 21-years-old poet, for his book of verse "Four Walls." The competitions for the gold and silver medals were open to all British citizens within the Empire under the age of 35 or to a poet's first or second volume. "Four Walls" is Mr. Whistler's second volume. The committee appointed by the King to act as judges consisted of Mr. John Masefield, the Poet Laureate, chairman, Mr. Laurence Binyon, Mr. Walter De La Mare, Professor Gilbert Murray, and Mr. I. A. Richards. The committee has decided not to award the King's silver medal for 1934. Mr. John Masefield will present the gold medal to Mr. Whistler in the hall of the Royal Society of Literature in London to-day.

Drama Based on Ulster Linen Trade
     For the first time in the history of the Belfast Little Theatre, a drama of the Ulster Linen trade, by a local author, is to be produced to-night. The play, "The Tide Turns," by Mr. Ruddick Millat, has its setting in the linen headquarters areas of Belfast, where the Little Theatre is situated. The author shows the effect of a trade slump on a linen merchant's home/ It is probable that steps will be taken following the production to select an Ulster linen queen.

Dr. Alexander Irvine (right) presenting a painting to Mr. J. Herbert Ireland (general secretary of the Y.M.C.A.) yesterday

30th August 1934  Dr. Alexander Irvine Comes Home - Month's Visit to Ulster
     Alexander Irvine has come home again to see his birthplace in Pogue's Entry, Antrim, that place of poignant, yet happy memories, especially when he recalls the sweet philosophy of Anna, his mother, and the determined struggle for very existence which Jamie, his father, put forth in the very early days of the now famous author's life. In Dr. Alexander Irvine's young days he was for a time a stable boy, and later became a miner. Afterwards he served in the Royal Marines and later joined the Army, and was with the relieving force which went to Gordon's rescue at Khartoum. Mr. Irvine has come on a month's visit to Ulster and during that time he will conduct the services in Newington Presbyterian Church, Belfast, in the absence of the Moderator. Yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. S. E. Gillmour and Mr. J. Herbert Ireland, two of the trustees appointed for the purchase and reconstruction of the cottage in Pogue's Entry, he visited the scenes of his childhood and inspected the work of restoring the cottage as nearly as possible to its original state. In his book, "My Lady of Chimney Corner," he wrote: "I want to go back some day and cover them (his father and mother) with a slab of marble, on which their names will be cut and these words - "Love is enough."
     In the churchyard he stood quietly by the side of the grave; saw where his wish had been fulfilled, and into his mind there came visions of the past. Dr. Irvine has brought with him a signed painting by Millet entitled "Maternity," and which is to be hung over the mantleshelf in the cottage. It came into his possession years ago in New York, and he feels that this is the place for it. Dr. Irvine is an authority on Millet and has been lecturing on him for 25 years. "Maternity" has been valued for as much as £500 and the trustees will take great care in having it safely and properly hung in the little cottage. Dr. Irvine proposes to send along many other gifts, and ultimately all his art collection and his books will go there. He feels very grateful for what has been done in the way of commemorating not only his own life, but particularly the lives of his father and mother. As he said to me yesterday, "I want to light up the gloom; I want to put beauty into a hard earthen floor." A man of fine stature, Dr. Irvine speaks in quiet mellow tones, and in ordinary conversation scarcely ever raises his voice. To meet him is to realise that his one ambition in life is not wealth, fame, or even rest. "It is to be of service to my fellow-men," he wrote, "for that is my highest conception of service to God." To men who have been worsened or imagine they have become so in the fight of life, he can be of special encouragement, for his own life, as he has said, has been at times such a tempest and at others such a calm. Throughout the summer many people from across the Channel and America who are familiar with the distinguished visitor's life and work have made a pilgrimage to Antrim to see this shrine being restored for all time.
     12th September 1934 - Dr. Irvine visits Groomsport
The "Chimney Corner" Teahouse, Groomsport, where Dr. Alexander Irvine gave a reading of two of his latest stories, "Ordeal by Prayer" and "The Tinker of Tubercurry," on Tuesday afternoon, is a place of interesting associations. It is run by two girls belonging to well known Northern Ireland families, Miss Peggy Hunter, of Waringstown, and Miss Marie Hunter, who is a daughter of the late Rev. William Hunter, B.A., and Mrs. Hunter of Manchuria. The long low room was filled with dahlias and gladioli and heather; a cheery fire sparkled in the old fashioned brick fireplace; Dr. Irvine's quiet voice with its touch of humour, its recurring pathos, its memories of life in Pogue's Entry, rose above the conversation of friends, it was an autumn afternoon with autumn in its loveliest and friendliest mood. The owners are nothing if not home-lovers. The plain oak tables and chairs were made in Belfast. Their bright coloured tablecloths are of Ulster linen. The walls are decorated with woodcuts and etchings by Mr. J. F. Hunter, of the Ministry of Education, a well known Belfast artist, who is a brother of Miss Marie Hunter. There are also sketches and signs by Miss Mercy Hunter, A.R.C.A., a London art student.

Wedding at Derriaghy  Dorman - Allen

     Derriaghy Parish Church was artistically decorated for the wedding of Miss Gwendolen Allen and Dr. Henry Hobart George Forman, The Mall, Armagh, which took place yesterday afternoon. The decorative scheme was in yellow and was carried out in daffodils, ba?berry and golden broom.  The bride is the younger daughter of Mr. Joseph Allen, solicitor, Lisburn, and the late Mrs. Allen, while the bridegroom is the elder son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Hobart Seymour Dorman, Keady, Co. Armagh. The officiating clergy were the Rev. John Tobias, B.D., Rathmines, Dublin, assisted by the Rev. C. I. Peacocke, M.A., rector of Derriaghy. Miss Dickson, organist of the church, presided at the organ. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of white mirror satin. The close-fitting corsage merged into a wide skirt of billowy net, adorned in ruchings of satin. The shoulder cape was edged with similar ruchings. The veil of embroidered net was surmounted by a head-dress of orange blossom, and she carried a bouquet of pink roses. She was attended by one bridesmaid, Miss Evelyn Kane (Giant's Causeway) and Mr. Jack Bradbury, Armagh, acted as best man. The bridesmaid's frock of floral crepe de chine was in blue. Her bouquet was of yellow roses and white lilac. The reception was held at 35 Castle Street, Lisburn, where the guests were cordially received by the bride's father and her aunt, Mrs. S. R. Paul. She was smart wearing a two-piece suit in night blue, with a big hat to tone. Mrs. Dorman, the bridegroom's mother, wore a gown of crepe matt, brocaded velvet in sapphire blue, arranged with the new cape sleeves. The neck line was finished with matching lace. The hat to correspond was of the new escarpolette. The honeymoon is being spent in a motor tour of England. The bride's travelling dress was a smart ensemble suit in dark brown and beige. On the beige frock touches of dark brown were effective. The coat was collared in lynx, and the hat was in dark brown. The trousseau was supplied by Renée, Donegall Square, Belfast. The bride's little dog, Bingo, met the happy couple at the church door.

1st July 1935  Sixty Two Years Married

     The years have dealt lightly with Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Deans, of "Haddington," Knockbreda Park, Belfast, who were married on 1st July, 1873, a partnership of sixty-two years.  The anniversary of this happy event, which they are celebrating to-day, also coincides with Mr. Dean's birthday, as he was born in Soldierstown, near Aghalee, on 1st July 1851, eighty-four years ago. Mrs. Deans, who is four years older than her husband, is, like him, in good health, with mental faculties unimpaired, and they have wonderful memories of the social and civic life of Ulster. They were married in the old Ekenhead Presbyterian Church, the officiating clergyman being Rev. J. Armstrong. The bride was Miss Eliza Jane Rice, of Belfast, and formally of Gilford. Mr. Deans founded, with Mr. James Hodden, the firm of wine merchants and cordial manufacturers, which later became Messrs. Deans, Logan & Co. Ltd. He was the principal of this business, his association with the concern extending over 57 years. Situated in York Lane for seven years, the business was transferred to Commercial Court, where its activities were presided over by Mr. Deans for half-a-century. He was well and favourably known throughout Ireland and Great Britain, travelling extensively for the firm. He retired from business in April, 1933, and was followed into private life by the good wishes of a host of friends and well-wishers. Mr. Deans is a prominent Freemason, and was first Master of Lodge 530 in 1922, while he has also been Eminent Preceptor of the Ulidia Preceptory. His membership of the Masonic Order extends as far back as 1890, and his connection with the Orange Institution began sixty-three years ago. He is a foundation member of Belvoir Park Golf Club. Cordial congratulations will be offered to Mr. and Mrs. Deans by a wide circle of friends on this happy anniversary of their wedding day.

12th May 1934        Ulster Wedding in Australia                 24th January 1935

     The marriage took place in Toorak, Australia, to-day, of Mr. John Salters Moore, who is well-known in Belfast and Bangor, and Miss Shirley Dale, an English lady well known on both stage and screen. Mr. Moore doe a period was a teacher of voice production and elocution in Belfast, and frequently appeared on concert platforms in the city. He then resided in Bangor, and was a member of First Bangor Presbyterian Church choir. Going to London, he proved most successful, and while there saw a film in which he was immensely attracted to Shirley Dale, one of the cast. Subsequently he was offered a leading role in a company about to visit Australia and accepted the post. When he entrained for Southampton he saw his "lady of the screen" in the same compartment, and on being introduced to her found that she was to play opposite him during the tour. The friendship which immediately sprang up between them ripened, and now Miss Dale has become his leading lady for life. The happy couple are shortly leaving Australia for New Zealand, thence to Honolulu, California, and across the United States, after which they hope to return to England. It will be a source of pleasure, though not of surprise, to his many friends and admirers in the North of Ireland to learn of the further successes in the world of entertainment of Mr. John Salters Moore, the young Bangor artist who went out to Australia over eighteen months ago to play the principal part in the famous musical comedy "Waltzes From Vienna," which had a most popular run for over a year in London. Mr. Moore, who filled the part of Shani, the role portrayed by Robert Halliday in the London production, with Miss Shirley Dale, the film star, in the character of Rezi opposite him, contemplated an 18 weeks' tour in the first instance, but has been going from one success to another, and has had to defer time and again an intended home trip. Just when he had plans completed on the last occasion for re-visiting his friends in the old country came an offer so tempting from the Broadcast Commission for a six months' tour of all the big stations in Australia that it simply could not be turned down. The itinerary involves a tour of 15,000 miles. Mr. Moore takes full charge of the programme, does the announcing, etc., and altogether the experience gives him great scope for that individuality of his which never fails to get over. He and his partner present a 45-minute cameo five times weekly. They have twenty different programmes, ranging from modern English, Irish, Scottish, and Shakespearean down to musical comedy. The Irish programmes have been a great hit, as there is such a large following in Australia. This is somewhat anticipating, however, "Waltzes From Vienna" had a splendid success in Australia. The company did a 13-week season in Melbourne, and business was so good they had to give ten performances weekly for the first four weeks.

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Valerie Hobson, 17 year old Irish girl

Mr. W. I. Quinn, O.B.E. and Mr. S. A. Bulloch

22nd October 1933 Queen's University Students
Dr. Fisher and Miss Crawford

     The wedding was solemnised in St. George's Church, Belfast, on Saturday of Dr. Robert Ernest Walmsley Fisher and Miss Marie Cerise (Cherry) Crawford. Then bride and bridegroom met as students at Queens University, where each took a prominent part in the social life there. Dr. Fisher edited the undergraduate magazine to which his bride used to contribute a great deal of poetry. He used to speak a lot at the Literary and Scientific Society's debates, and his bride constantly played for the University Dramatic Society. The bridegroom is a son of the late Dr. R. E. W. Fisher, and of Mrs. Fisher, "Nirvana," Whitehead, and the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Crawford, reside in London. The Rev. P. E. Major, lately of Doagh, officiated at the wedding. The bride's frock of parchment georgette was worn over parchment duchess satin. It was cut on long, slim lines, with a round neck and long tight sleeves. The skirt terminated in a train. A veil of old Limerick lace was held in place by a halo of orange blossom. Miss Mona W. Fisher, a sister of the bridegroom, was the sole bridesmaid. Her dress of bronze velvet was cut on medieval lines and had a matching coatee. She wore a bronze and gold velvet cap, and carried a bouquet of bronze chrysanthemums. Cream roses composed the bride's bouquet. The bridegroom, who is attached to the Royal Air Force, wore the full dress uniform of the Force. Mr. J. Boyce, B.A., was best man. Owing to the unavoidable absence of her father the bride was given away by her mother, who wore a black ring velvet gown, an ermine stole, and a black hat. Following the ceremony a reception was held in the Carlton. The honeymoon is being spent motoring through Ireland. The bride travelled in a dark green ensemble with dyed squirrel trimming, and a dark green hat.

Miss Helen Gilliland in Belfast

     "You know," said Miss Helen Gilliland, the world famous singer, to a "Telegraph" reporter yesterday afternoon, "Irish scenery is very hard to beat. It is seven years since I was home last, and I am so glad to be back, even for a few days. I've been to America and many countries in Europe, but when I came up the Lough this morning and when I had a drive I said to my mother, "This is very hard to beat." "Butt it was raining so hard this morning!" "It was. When I heard the rain on my cabin window I said to myself, 'That's Belfast! It was raining when I was here last and the shower isn't over yet.' but when I came out on deck I realised that nowhere in the world is the colouring just what it is in Ireland, the green of our hedges and tress is unsurpassed." "It sounds rather as though your memories of Belfast were a big damp." "Perhaps they are," she laughed a little, "but I belong to Bangor and I always used to say in the old days that the climate of Bangor was far before that of Belfast." "I'm told it still is, at all events a Bangor man told me half an hour ago that the weather was quite pleasant to-day." "You see a great change in Belfast?" "Indeed, no. I felt perfectly at home as I came up Royal Avenue. There were all the old familiar landmarks. I'm told there is a great change in the suburbs, but I see none in the city. It struck me very much after New York, which seems to change every month." "You liked being in New York, I'm sure." "Oh, yes; I adored it. I went for six months, you know, and stayed for two and a half years. We got sunshine there! I had a flat in Long Island during the summer, and in the winter I had a flat in the city overlooking the river, eighteen storeys up. I used to lie in bed and watch the boats go up and down." "You mustn't rush back, you know. What will your next engagement be?" "I can't give you my plans for the immediate future," said Miss Gilliland, "because I never reveal engagements until they are quite definite. I am going to do another show in London after I have had a holiday, but I shall probably be going back to America later. I'm dying to see Hollywood, and I'm longing to make a film, I've had a cable giving me a definite appointment. I can tell you so much." "How long have you been playing in London since you left New York?" "Oh, four months or so. Sir Alfred Butt cabled me to come over and play in 'The Song of the Drum,' and I sailed that very night." In spite of her travels this young Ulster actress is as frank and simple in manner as when she played in Mrs. Whale's annual entertainments in the Ulster Hall and elsewhere. She was quite excited to find that a baby niece had arrived from another world while she was crossing the Irish Sea, She and the baby's little brother, Terry Cuthbertson, are the best of friends already, though she was a stranger to Terry on arrival. Miss Gilliland, who in private life is Mrs. L. H. Nelles, is staying with her aunt, Mrs. Arthur Tinsley, in Sans Souci Park, and Mrs. Gilliland, who is naturally delighted to have her daughter at home again, is there also. "Just think," said Mrs. Nelles, "it's seven years since I've been at home and I've a great big little daughter." She now and again betrays her Irish birth by her Irish expressions, and though she has the "non-accent" of the highly trained actress and singer her voice has the soft intonation that we all associate with this land of rain and green.  "Judy would have loved to have come with me," she said, "but I thought it better to leave her behind, because I can only spare a few days. Colonel Nelles is still in New York detained on business, but I hope he will be over next month. Judy has been to New York twice, and loved her experiences there." Miss Gilliland asked eagerly for news of many old friends, and first of all for Mrs. Whale, who visited her some years ago at Drury Lane Theatre. "You don't know how much of my success I attribute to the splendid foundations of my art that Mrs. Whale laid and developed in me," she said with enthusiasm. "If it hadn't been for her I would never have thought of the stage. Her foundation work is simply marvellous. I don't think I had anything she taught me to unlearn in London, which is saying a great deal. All her pupils owe her more than they can ever realise, and I am delighted she is still carrying on her work." Others for whom se inquired were Miss Eva Kerr, a fellow pupil at Mrs. Whale's, and the late Mr. W. B. Reynolds, musical critic of the "Belfast Telegraph." "He took such an interest in us all I am sure he is a great loss to the city. I still consider that he was a remarkably fine critic and extraordinarily clever." "Then you are not afraid of criticism?" "On the contrary, I love it, and I love it best when it is honest and straight, even if it is hard to bear and may sound cruel, some of us need to be harshly criticised." Miss Gilliland was very pleased to hear of the growth of the amateur theatrical movement in Ulster. "Splendid!" she said. "Give it all the encouragement you possibly can." She is looking forward to seeing the Abbey Players at the Opera House, even though her programme for her visit is more than full already. "I shall never forget my visit to the Opera House some years ago. How my friends did support me then, the Irish are so much more sincere and loyal than the English.
     Bound for America, Belfast Artist Scores Again, Miss Gilliland Home Call and the Thrill of it.
Miss Helen Gilliland, the gifted artist, who has brought so much lustre to her native Province, is on another visit to her "ain folk" in Belfast prior to a second professional tour of the States. When interviewed by a "Telegraph" representative to-day she sparkled with the rapturous animation of the exile back among the scenes of her girlhood. "I never had such a kick out of home as on this occasion," she confessed. And she looked as if enjoying the very peak of pleasure. "I have been showing my daughter Judy, who, by the way, has musical and dramatic predilections, around the haunts of my early meanderings, and we are having a lovely holiday together. It was my first New Year with my mother since I left Eglantine Avenue before my debut in London, and you cannot imagine what a thrill it was to me. Believe me, there is no place like home, and no friends more dear and faithful than the old friends." Asked if she noticed much change in Belfast since she left, Miss Gilliland replied, with a bewitching smile, "Scarcely any. I almost seem to recognise some of the blinds on some of the windows I passed on my way to school. But I know that the city has made wonderful headway and I am proud of this, more especially as Belfast is so renowned for the building of great liners." Miss Gilliland mentioned as one of the surprise incidents of her visit a salutation she received from the city's famous flower seller, Miss Jeannie King. "I was passing through Donegall Place," she added, "when Miss King rushed over and embraced me, saying how glad she was to see me back again. This is really typical of the reception I have had from all my friends, and for which I am so grateful."  Asked as to her future, the former pupil of Mrs. Whale said she was shortly going to America, where arrangements were made for her re-appearance in Broadway. She would also re-broadcast when there. She looked forward with immense interest to renewing her association with the U.S.A., where for two years, from 1928 to 1930, she had a really remarkable time, receiving from all whom she met the utmost consideration and encouragement. On the present visit, in addition to theatrical work in New York and elsewhere, she would proceed to Holywood for a film in which she would have a star musical part. This would give her an new adventure, to which she was looking forward with real enthusiasm. When it was suggested that she might decide to remain altogether on the other side of the Atlantic, Miss Gilliland lost no time in removing any such impression with these words: "I love the people of America. I am very fond of their artistic ideals. I have no memory other than one of cherished pleasure for their exceptional hospitality, but the British Isles have an appeal which cannot be equalled by any other part of the world. However successful I may be, I will be looking forward to returning, and I have my heart on appearing once again in my native city. This chance came my way when I was asked to travel with Lilac Time and play the part of Lily, which I played in London, but it did not suit me at the time. However, the future may bring me another opportunity. Miss Gilliland has one ambition, to act in a straight play. She has sung with the d'Oyly Carte Co. in all the principal roles. She has appeared in musical comedy; she has even specialised in variety; now she wants to try her gifts in a play of the Barrie or Shaw type. The artist sails for America in the Berengaria. She was looking forward to a holiday on the initial trip of the Queen Mary, but her engagement in the States came at a time which made this impossible. All her many friends will unite in wishing Miss Gilliland "Bon Voyage and the best of luck."
     "Katinka," - "Katinka," a new musical play, will be produced at Birmingham on Monday, and will come on to London, at the Shaftesbury Theatre, on August 30. The leading parts will be taken by Binnie Hale. Helen Gilliland (whom you see here (3rd photo above)), John Coyne, Peter Gawthorne, and George Bishop. Miss Gilliland, who is best remembered by her first work in Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, in which she took the chief soprano parts, has since been seen and heard in "Round in 50" at the Hippodrome, and "The Cousin from Nowhere" at the Princes. She was born in Belfast.

18th October 1932 Mr. Howard Ferguson

     The many friends of Mr. Howard Ferguson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Ferguson, of Deramore Park South, Belfast, will be glad to learn that he has just scored another musical success, this time at the Wigmore Hall, London. Mr. Ferguson was born in Belfast in 1908. In 1922 he attracted the attention of Harold Samuel by the brilliancy of his promise, and upon his advice he was sent to London to continue his education and take up serious study of piano and composition. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Ferguson (Belfast).

21st September 1933 - "Say Not Good-night"
     A song, "Say Not Good-Night," has just been published by a Belfast composer in memory of Mr. Fred Mackey, who lost his life in a motor accident a year or two ago. Mr. Mackey was an accomplished tenor singer, and was a member of the Mayfair Glee Singers. He was well known on the concert platform throughout Ulster, and this tribute in song to his memory will be greatly appreciated in musical circles.

Carrickfergus Castle in County Antrim, a drawing by Mr. Fred Jay Girling, who gives another of his rambler talks from Belfast today.

     Mr. Fred Jay Girling, the well known black and white artist and designer, has secured an important appointment as ship's surveyor to the Board of Trade at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and leaves Belfast at the week-end to take up his new duties. His numerous friends in the city, while regretting his removal, will join in congratulating him upon his success, and wishing him all prosperity in the future. Mr. Girling is a native of Leicester, but has been resident in Belfast for 14 years. Having served his time in the shipyard drawing office, he has for a considerable time been engaged in the dressing department at Messrs. Harland & Wollf's. As an artist he has been a regular contributor to the Belfast Art Society Exhibitions, his water colours and black and white studies always being worthy of attention. Readers of the "Belfast News-Letter" have been familiar with the examples of his work, which from time to time have appeared in our columns, while listeners to the B.B.C. programmes have heard with pleasure his talks on highways and byways in Antrim and Down.

Dr. E. Norman Hay's "Pæan" Chosen for "Three Choirs" Festival.
     One of the highest honours which a composer can receive is to have his work selected for performance at the "Three Choirs" Festival. Failure to pierce the magic circle of the Selection Committee is in these times the cause of many heart-burnings, and the list of British composers who have been successful in doing this during the last two hundred years or so is a comparatively small one. It will, therefore, be welcome news to the many friends and admirers of the well known Ulster composer, Dr. E. Norman Hay, to learn that it was officially announced yesterday that his "Pæan," for mezzo-soprano solo, chorus and orchestra, is included in the list of works to be performed at the Worcester Festival in September next. This is a great distinction for Dr. Hay and for Ulster. It will be remembered that "Pæan" was composed for the Belfast Philharmonic Society, which gave the work its first performance in November, 1930. It was again given under the composer's baton at one of the B.B.C. Ulster Hall concerts in the 1931 summer series. On both occasions the work was received with much enthusiasm.

16th October 1935 The Ulster Academy of Arts
Mrs. James Andrews declaring open the exhibition in old museum, College Square North, Belfast

The Ulster Academy of Arts
Platform party at the opening of the exhibition in the Old Museum Buildings, College Square, Belfast, yesterday. In centre is Sir John Lavery, R.A. (who presided), and on his right Mrs. James Andrews (who performed the opening ceremony). The group also includes Mr. J. Ferry (hon. secretary), Mrs. Carey, J.P., and Mr. Morris Harding, R.H.A.

Sir John Lavery, R.A., discussing his self-portrait with Mrs. J. W. Carey, J.P.
Later in the day Sir John presented this painting to Queen's University

Engagement of Amateur Actress
     The engagement was announced at Belfast yesterday of Miss Lesley Bell, a pretty Belfast amateur actress, to Mr. Christopher F. C. Lindsay, elder son of Captain Cecil Lindsay, Lissue House, Lisburn. Miss Bell won the Heckling Cup presented by the Ulster Women's Unionist Council in March last, and brought off the double event for the Whitehouse team, of which she was leader. She is an accomplished public speaker, and has engaged in theatrical work for charity. Miss Bell told a Daily Mail reporter yesterday that Mr. Lindsay had not been present when she won the Heckling Cup. Mr. Lindsay stated that no date has been fixed for the wedding. Captain Lindsay is ex-High Sheriff of Belfast.

27th February 1935 Death of Mr. Shan F, Bullock
     Mr. Shan F. Bullock, the Irish author, who died on Wednesday evening in Sutton Hospital, Surrey, after a long illness, at the ago of 69, was the author of 14 novels of Ulster life and other volumes. His real name was John William Bullock, and he was a native of Crom, Co. Fermanagh, the eldest son of the large family of Thomas Bullock, J.P., of Killynick House, Fermanagh. He was educated at Farra School, Co. Westmeath, and came to London with an appointment in the Civil Service. For many years he was a clerk at Somerset House. His first book was "The Awkward Squads," published in 1893, followed two years by "By Thrasna River." Critics praised the young unknown author for his restrained style and his faithful delineation of Irish life. A succession of novels followed, of which "The Barrys," "The Red Leaguers," and "The Squireen" were outstanding examples of his work. Bullock wrote in 1912 the biography of Thomas Andrews, member of the noted Comber family and nephew of Lord Pirrie, who perished on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. The death of his wife in 1922 called forth some poignant poems, prefaced by Mr. Geo. Russell, published under the title of "Mors et Vita." His reminiscences of his early days in Ireland appeared in a pleasant volume entitled "After Sixty Years." He was elected to succeed George Moore in the Irish Academy of Letters. He served on the Secretariat of the Irish Convention, over which Sir Horace Plunkett presided, and was made an M.B.E. for his services. Latterly in his official career he was at the office of the Public Trustee until his retirement.

Miss Margaret Cooper

Sudden Death in London
     Theatre-goers the kingdom over will be grieved to hear of the sudden death at her home in Dartmouth Road, Cricklewood, London, N., on Wednesday night of Miss Margaret Cooper, the famous entertainer at the piano.  Heart failure induced by a clot of blood, following asthma and a nervous breakdown, was the cause of death. Her health had been indifferent for several months, but she was up and about until a fortnight ago, and had hoped to resume her engagements within three months. Miss Cooper  entered the ranks of entertainers with all the advantages of a serious musical training. In her girlhood she studied the violin and piano at the Royal Academy of Music. She was taught singing only because her father thought it would improve her health by strengthening a delicate chest. Her voice at first, "so tiny that it wouldn't fill an egg-cup," as she said once, developed so pleasingly that singing became her serious business in life.

20th August 1936 - Mr. H. Plunket Greene
     Mr. Harry Plunket Greene, the famous singer, died at St. George's Hospital, London, yesterday, at the age of 71, after a short illness following an operation for an internal complaint. Mrs. Greene and her daughter were present at the bedside. He was well known in Northern Ireland, where he adjudicated at musical festivals. A baritone with a remarkable beauty of diction, Mr. Greene held a unique position for many years as an interpreter of German Lieder, and did much to restore the prestige of the English folk-song. He believed that good music and smoking could be enjoyed together. He instituted smoking chamber concerts, classical music on the platform, smoking in the auditorium and refreshments close at hand. The first was held at Princes Galleries, London, in the autumn of 1934. The son of a barrister, Harry Plunket Greene was born at Old Connaught House, near Dublin, on 24th June, 1865. He made his debut at a concert in Dublin in 1887, and first appeared in London at the People's Palace in 1888. After being associated with opera at Covent Garden for a short period, he abandoned it for the concert platform. From 1890 onwards he sang at many of the Three Choirs' Festivals. In 1893 he and Leonard Borwick, the pianist, gave their first joint recital. The funeral will take place at Hurstbourne Priors, Hants, on Saturday.

Sir Robert Stewart Johnstone
     . . late Chief Justice of Grenada and a native of Belfast, died on 31st December at the age of 81. Born on 23rd July, 1855, he was the son of Mr. William J. Johnstone, J.P., of Dunesk, Belfast. He was educated privately at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1882 with honours and medal in history and political science, and later proceeded LL.B. and M.A. In 1885 he gained a Holt scholarship at Gray's Inn, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1886 and to the English Bar in 1889. Having joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Manchester Regiment as a lieutenant in 1883, he was promoted to be captain and honorary major. In 1889 he was appointed to be District Commissioner in the Colony of Lagos, which at that time was in process of expansion. In 1894 he was promoted to be circuit magistrate and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the Bahamas, and in 1902 he acted as Attorney-General of the Colony. In 1893 he married Helena, daughter of Mr. Otto von der Meden, of Coventry Hall, Streatham, and that had one son. The funeral will be at Chislehurst Cemetery to-morrow.

4th November 1936 - Gerald Gould

     . . poet, essayist and critic, died at his home in Hamilton Terrace, London, N.W. He was 51, and had been in failing health for some time. Mr. Gould once gave a humorous explanation of the way he obtained his degrees. "At Oxford," he said, "the examiner asked: 'Where did St. Paul get to at the end of his journey to Rome?' Fortunately, I knew that one, and that is how I got my Oxford degree. "I got my London degree by bribing a professor with 3s. 6d., a pink of beer, and a bowler hat, the first edition of which had been exhausted."

28th May 1937 - Mr. J. W. Carey
     Mr. Joseph W. Carey, the well known Ulster artist, died suddenly at his residence, Knockdene Park, Belfast, yesterday. He had been in failing health for some time. A son of the late Rev. J. W. Carey and a grandson of the late Rev. John Carey, he received his early art training in the firm of Messrs. Marcus Ward, Ltd., and was subsequently in a business partnership with Mr. Richard Thompson. Mr. Carey had the reputation of being one of the finest artists in Northern Ireland. He executed many commissions and his beautiful paintings were well known to a wide public. He was one of the original members of the Belfast Art Society, and was an Academician of the Ulster Academy of Arts. During the Great War Mr. Carey gave most of his time to Red Cross work and was a Commandant of the British Red Cross V.A.D. No. 9. He had a wide circle of friends and was a man of kindly and genial disposition. His wife is a magistrate of the city of Belfast and is a leader in social work of all kinds. The deepest sympathy will be extended to her in her great loss.

3rd May 1937 - Mr. Thomas Tate, Belfast
     The death of Mr. Thomas Tate, Caledonia House, Rugby Road, Belfast, has removed one of our oldest citizens. Born in 1844, he spent his early years in the employment of Messrs. Wm. Barbour & Sons, Hilden, later travelling for them on the Continent and in the United States. In 1887 he commenced business on his own account, and was later joined by his son, Mr. Hunter Tate, under whom the business is still carried on. One of the oldest members of University Road Methodist Church. Mr. Tate held many of the offices in connection with the congregation, and was a regular attendant at the services until laid aside through illness about a year ago.

Death of Mr. Samuel Cuffey Watson
     The death took place to-day of Mr. Samuel Cuffey Watson at his residence, 14 Ravenhill Park, Belfast. Mr. Watson, who was a director of Messrs. Millar, Boyd, & Reid, Ltd., wholesale warehousemen, Callender Street, Belfast, had been in indifferent health for some time, and about a week ago had a serious relapse. A quiet, reserved man of high integrity and kindly disposition, he was greatly esteemed by a wide circle of friends in business and private life. For a long period he was an elder of Rosemary Street Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, and two sons, both of whom are well known in sporting circles. Mr. Tom Watson has long been connected actively with Cooke Rugby Club and Mr. Stanley M. Watson, the Instonian Rugby footballer and cricketer, has captained the Ulster Province juniors at cricket. The funeral will be private and took place from his late residence to Knockbreda Cemetery.

Mrs. Whale

Well Known Ulster Teacher
     We very much regret to announce the death of Mrs. Whale, the well known teacher of elocution, voice production, and music, which took place this morning at her residence, 71 Fitzroy Avenue, Belfast, after a short illness. A few years ago Mrs. Whale had been seriously indisposed, but recovered from this. She had a relapse, however, a little over a week ago, and the end came as stated this morning. Mrs. Whale, who was a native of Bath, came to reside in Belfast with her husband, who was for a considerable period a member of St. George's Church Choir, and like his wife, whom he predeceased, was well known in musical circles. For over 30 years Mrs. Whale occupied a commanding position inn her profession in the city, and trained a number of very distinguished men and women. Amongst these were Miss Helen Gilliland, the well known operatic artist; Madame Dorothy Silk, Miss Winifred Brady, and Mr. Nicholas Breene, all of whom distinguished themselves in concert or opera. A very large number of students passed through her hands, and upon these she left the mark of her own personality and culture. Year after year she produced a seasonal entertainment at the Christmas period, first in the Exhibition Hall and in later years in the Ulster Hall. These were always looked forward to with great interest and commanded large audiences. She frequently gave performances for the benefit of various charities. Of her two sons, William is married and resides in Canada, and the other, also married, is resident in Belfast and employed in Government service. With them there will be very great sympathy in the loss which they and the whole public have sustained by the death of this brilliant woman, to whom the community owed so much throughout her long and useful life. The funeral of Mrs. Ellen L. Whale took place this afternoon from her late residence, 71 Fitzroy Avenue, Belfast, to Dundonald Cemetery.

18th September 1936 Mr. John Browne
     The death of Mr. John Browne, Adelaide Park, Belfast, removes a well known figure from the business life of the community. He was a partner in the firm of Messrs. Hanna & Browne, Arthur Street, which he joined over 40 years ago, having served his apprenticeship at Ballymena. Mr. Browne did not take an active part in public affairs, but was interested in the Masonic Order and was a Past Master of Craft Lodge Corinthian No. 34 and Past King of Royal Arch Chapter No.36. His wife predeceased him six years ago, and he is survived by his daughter Margaret and his son, Dr. Ian Browne, of Bangor. The funeral takes place to-day to Broughshane.

21st November 1936 - Death of Mr. J. Hanna
     Mr. James Hanna, "Landour," Hampton Park, Belfast, passed away on Saturday afternoon, after a short illness. Mr. Hanna was one of four sons of Mr. James Hanna, Artnagross, Finvoy, Co. Antrim. One was Mr. John Hanna, sen., of Ballymoney; another the late Mr. William Hanna, who was one of the founders of Messrs. Hanna & Browne, house furnishers, Belfast; while the third still resides at the old home. After an apprenticeship in the drapery business in Ballymoney, Mr. Hanna came to Belfast, and eventually became an employee of Messrs. Young & Anderson, Donegall Street, and as an outcome of meticulous attention to business he rose to the position of partner and director of this firm. By his courtesy and kindliness he gained many friends in the commercial world, while his generous consideration of all members of thee staff linked them to him in a bond of devotion and gratitude. His nephew Mr. Alfred Hanna, is secretary of the firm. As a whole hearted Presbyterian, he took a deep interest in the work of the Church at home and abroad, and was at the time of his death a member of the Kirk Session of Newtownbreda congregation. Mr. Hanna leaves a widow.

30th May 1935 - Dr. Percy Dearmer
     Dr. Percy Dearmer, the noted divine, died suddenly in London on Friday night. Only a few hours before he was apparently in the best of health, and his eldest son, Mr. Geoffrey Dearmer, had just left London for a Whitsuntide holiday in the New Forest. Accompanying Mr. Dearmer was his wife, formerly Mrs. Margaret Vansittart, daughter of the late Sir Henry Procter and Lady Procter, whom he married two months ago. Dr. Dearmer, Canon of Westminster since 1931, was 69, and had been a leading personality in the Church of England for many years. A learned theologian as well as an authority on art, music, and languages, he had written more than fifty books on such diverse subjects as carols and hymns, the lives of the saints, Gothic architecture, and Russian literature. Always an outspoken preacher, he did not hesitate to repeat from the pulpit in Westminster Abbey last year Kitchener's phrase "a damned lie" in reference to the suggestion that General Gordon of Khartoum was a brandy drinker. That the Bible was the worst printed book in the world was one of Dearmer's sayings. Another was that if a person were ill in pain without hope of recovery it would be better to end that person's life peacefully and painlessly. A few years ago he preached a sermon in Westminster Abbey advocating birth control, and in 1931 he criticised base films as a peril to youth. Public houses should be open and pleasant places where refreshments of all kinds could be obtained he aid in another Abbey sermon. "The public house cannot be abolished, but it can be reformed," he explained. He attacked sweepstakes as a method of raising money for hospitals. With Dr. Maude Royden he started services which attracted large congregations at the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, from 1920 to 1924. He was a recognised authority on modern social questions. His Church career was centred in London where he was born. In 1915 he went to Serbia as chaplain to the British Red Cross, being decorated with the Serbian Red Cross. Afterwards he took part in Y.M.C.A. work in France and India, and visited Japan and the United States towards the end of the war. In 1919 he became lecturer in art and Professor of Ecclesiastical Art at King's College, London, and occupied these posts at his death. Dr. Dearmer's first wife, formerly Miss Mabel White, died in Serbia in 1915. He married in 1916 Miss Nancy Knowles, of Bolton.

1st May 1937 - Mr. Herbert Hughes
     The death of Mr. Herbert Hughes (58), which took place at Brighton on Saturday, will be a great loss to music. The deceased gentleman, a native of Belfast, had widespread reputation as a critic and composer, and his Irish folk-songs were favourites the world over. He was one of the founders of the Irish Folk Song Society in 1904, and the Editor of its early journals. Son of Mr. F. P. Hughes, the senior partner in Messrs. Hughes, Dickson & Co. Ltd., the well known flour millers of Belfast, Mr. Herbert Hughes inherited his love of music from his parents, who were both vocalists of distinction and often heard on the concert platforms of the city. His father will be remembered as a leading tenor in the choir of St. James's Parish Church during the period when Mr. F. C. Smythe, Mus.Bac., was the organist. So marked were the late Mr. Hughes' musical gifts that at the early ago of 14 he was organist of St. Peter's Church, Antrim Road. The late Mr. Herbert Hughes collected the material for his folk songs in the thatched cottages of the country, and they are typical of the land and its people. One of the composer's greatest admirers is Mr. John McCormack, who sang his songs and made them known in the two hemispheres. Mr. Hughes did not confine his musical activities to folk songs, as his name is associated with many well known parodies of nursery rhymes. He contributed articles to the "New Age," was music critic for the "Daily Telegraph," in 1931-32 was music editor of the "Saturday Review." Twice married, Mr. Hughes is survived by his second wife, who was Miss Suzanne McKernan, one of the Irish Players. There is one son, Mr. Spike Hughes, by the first marriages, and two daughters by the second. The family had taken a house at Brighton for the season. The deceased had been ill only eight days when he succumbed to an attack of pneumonia.  The late Mr. Hughes enlisted in the Artists' Rifles early in the war and was O.C. at one of the Channel Islands (Herm) which was later occupied residentially by Compton Mackenzie. Afterwards he joined the intelligence staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under Allenby, and was promoted to cable censor at Suakin on the Red Sea, and then became Chief Military Censor in the Soudan. With the bereaved family and with his brother, Mr. Fred Hughes, Belfast, also a singer of note, there will be deep sympathy.  A correspondent writes:- Only those, I think, who remember Herbert Hughes living in Belfast as a young man in the early twenties will be able to recall that before he began his career as a collector and arranger of traditional airs he was particularly interested in archæology. At the age of nineteen or twenty he was remarkably well versed in the antiquities of Ulster. Although he contributed many articles at that time to journals interested in the subject, the only publication of this kind from his pen which achieved permanent form was a booklet called "The Monumental Remains of the Old Abbey Church of Bangor in the County Down," which he compiled with the help of Francis Joseph Biggar and published in 1901. It is an interesting and more informative piece of work, with illustrations by J. W. Carey, R. Thomson, and other Ulster artists. It contains also a few remarkable prints described as "rubbings," which seem to have been taken by direct impression from ancient crosses and tombstones at the Bangor Abbey. One of the antiquities treated in this manner was the Bangor Cross, which is now preserved in the chapel at Clandeboye.

22nd May 1937 Mr. James McCann

     This afternoon the remains of the late Mr. James McCann, who died suddenly at his residence, 2 Franklin Street, Belfast, on Saturday were laid to rest in Milltown Cemetery. The funeral was largely attended, the chief mourners being the deceased's three sisters, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Mulholland and Miss Kate McCann. In the cortege were the directors of Messrs. Warden, Ltd., of which the deceased was resident manager, Mr. Edward Buckley (chairman), Mr. Rogers and Mr. W. Buckley. The staff of the Opera House was represented by - Miss Bolton, of the secretary's office, Mr. Dudley Haire, conductor of the orchestra; Mr. T. Haughey, publicity manager; and Messrs. L. Bleakley, J. Carey, C. Hart, F. Hyland, J. C. Donaldson and George Norris. Mr. Cecil King, manager of the Royal Cinema, also attended. The officiating clergyman at the graveside was Rev. J. Dean, B.A., C.C., St. Malachy's. Mr. B. McLarnon, Clifton Street, Belfast, had charge of the funeral arrangements. At a meeting of the directors of Messrs. Warden, Ltd. held on Saturday, a resolution was passed expressing regret at the death of Mr. McCann, for many years the respected manager at Belfast Opera House, and sympathy with his sisters and relatives in their sudden bereavement.

25th March 1937 - Mr. John Drinkwater
     Mr. John Drinkwater, the poet and dramatist, died in his sleep at his home near Maida Vale, London, early yesterday morning. He was 54, and on Wednesday night he was a guest at a West End Club, where a party was given by a member of Old Blues to celebrate Oxford's Boat Race victory. It is understood that death was due to heart failure as a result of recent overwork. The end came within a few hours of the completion of his Coronation film, of which he was both producer and author. By a tragic coincidence, the film records the last appearance on the screen of Sir Austen Chamberlain, who also died suddenly last week. Mr. Drinkwater was married to Miss Daisy Kennedy, the Australian violinist, in 1924. There is one child, a girl born in 1929. Two years ago, seven year old Penny (Penelope) Drinkwater, John Drinkwater's daughter, told the Daily Sketch something about her father. It is forgivable, perhaps, to reproduce extracts now: "My Daddy has grey hair and a very pretty face. He reads, he writes, he acts, he plays cuddling games, and he has to keep making a lot of money, he says, to buy frocks for me. He loves doughnuts and boiled eggs. Daddy hates anything that's good for him. Most of all he hates going for a walk. He says it doesn't make sense. He says if you have somewhere to go, go: but don't wander aimlessly about just because there is such a thing called "Going for a walk."  Then Daddy hates wearing hats. I laughed and laughed one day when Daddy said to Mummy, "Have you seen my hat?" (Daddy is always trying to find his hat.) And Mummy said, "Yes, I have, and here is it," and bang she stuck her hand right through the top of it. You should have seen Daddy's face. "And now you've got to buy yourself a new one!" said Mummy, very pleased.

8th March 1935 - Rev. G. W. Thompson
     A memorial service in connection with the passing of the Rev. George W. Thompson was held in Lisburn Methodist Church on Sunday morning, 3rd March. The Revs. E. Whittaker, W. H. Smyth, M.A., and J. W. Johnston took part.

Death of Rev. Dr. Smyth

     We regret to announce the death of the Very Rev. T. A. Smyth, M.A., LL.B., D.D., minister of Great Victoria Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast, and a former Moderator of the General Assembly, which took place yesterday in a city nursing home. Dr. Smyth had been in indifferent health for some time, and entered the nursing home at the weekend to undergo an operation. Dr. Smyth was born near Moneymore on 25th August 1869. He was brought up in connection with First Moneymore and Carland congregations, and later in that of Newmills, County Tyrone, in which his father was a ruling elder. He received his early education in Dungannon Royal School, and continued his arts course in Magee University College, Derry, and graduated in Trinity College, Dublin, taking his B.A. in 1912, subsequently taking his M.A. in 1915 and the LL.B. in 1916. Part of his theological course was taken in Magee College, Derry, and the remainder in Assembly's College, Belfast. He was licensed by the Dungannon Presbytery on 18th June, 1891, and in December of the same year he was ordained and appointed to his first pastoral charge, that of Clougherney, County Tyrone, where he laboured with much acceptance for 5½ years. At the funeral yesterday, the respect in which he was held, not only by his own congregation but by people of all denominations, was very much in evidence. After the service in the church the cortege proceeded to the City Cemetery, the chief mourners being the deceased's two sons, Rev. T. A. B. Smyth, and Dr. Robert Smyth.

27th March 1937 - Why I Resigned
     The affairs of the Ulster Arts Club, culminating in the surprise resignation of Mr. J. S. N. Sewell, the president, within three weeks of his taking office, promise to raise important issues shortly. Mr. Sewell is headmaster of Brackenber House School, Belfast, and has been a member of the club for some years. One of the reasons for his resignation is his belief that importance has been attached to the social side of the club at the expense of its artistic development. "My efforts to combat this met with so much opposition that I decided to accept no further responsibility. I felt that curtailment of social activities might first be directed, among other things, to the hours in which the bar remained open. I thought these should be shortened.

April 1937 New Organisation Formed in Belfast
     Many Belfast playgoers will regret to learn that the Little Theatre, after valiant efforts to keep going, has reluctantly been compelled to close down owing to an extraordinary lack of public support and appreciation of the excellent work it did in the interests of dramatic art in the city. It has been felt, however, by several people that the fruits of the last few years ought not to be wasted, and so a new organisation called The Playhouse has been formed. It will extend the policy of the Little Theatre, and in addition to producing plays which Belfast would otherwise perhaps never have an opportunity of seeing it is the intention to include the work of all the Ulster societies, and produce the work of Ulster authors with Ulster players.

Andersonstown to Wales, Belfast Bride's New Home
     The Belfast bride who was married this afternoon at Osborne Park (Lisburn Road) Methodist Church, is to make her new home in Wales. She is Miss Violet Larmour, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Larmour, Victoria Lodge, Andersonstown. She has married Mr. Sydney A. Bayliss, Friar's Road, Newport, Monmouthshire, who is an official in a bank in Newport, and son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bayliss, Llanelly, Wales. He was accompanied by Mr. Raymond Glendinning as best man. Rev. Robert Maxwell and Rev. Robert Rainey officiated, and the music at the service included the hymn "O Perfect Love." The bride wore a becoming gown of parchment satin, the skirt terminating in a train. The corsage was appliqued in lace and had rows of pin tucks in front; the sleeves were bell shaped and tight fitting from the elbow. A halo of orange blossom and pearl supported a veil of parchment coloured tulle embroidered in gold, and she carried a bouquet of pink ophelie roses and white heather. The bride's train was carried by her little niece, Joy Boomer. The three bridesmaids were her sister, Miss Ida Larmour; the bridegroom's sister, Miss Gwen Bayliss, and Miss Kathleen Johnston. They wore pretty halo headdresses with their frocks of lavender taffeta, made with gauged bodices and skirts which were finished with billowing net from the knees, and carried bouquets of carnations. Mr. and Mrs. Larmour entertained their friends at the Carlton during the afternoon. The honeymoon will be spent in Cornwall, Mrs. Bayliss's going away costume being a model suit in navy with navy hat and a silver fox fur, the bridegroom's gift.

27th March 1937 Miss Geraldine Costigan

     The well known Belfast vocalist, who has been engaged as one of the principals for the Dublin Operatic Society's week of opera early in April. Miss Costigan is cast in "Mignon" (Ambrose Thomas) with such leading artists as Miss May Devitt, Messrs. Ben Williams, Leslie Jones, and John Lynskey. It is a signal honour to one of Ulster's best known and most popular singers.

St. John Ervine
In the Days of My Youth
"I think I must have written and written and written before I got anything printed and paid for."
September 12, 1925

     I was born in Belfast, where, whatever else he may be, a man is definite about his beliefs. A Belfast man may not know why he is a Protestant or a Catholic, but he does definitely know that he is either one or the other. The majority of Englishmen know neither what they are nor why they are. One of my earliest recollections is of the terror with which I walked through a Catholic street called Short Strand. It was always a marvel to me that I got through that street alive and un-assaulted. It contained two terrors for me, the terror of Catholicism and the terror of two imbeciles with tiny heads. These imbeciles were each known as Johnny Wee Head or Johnny Pin Head, and they had the habit of running into a lime works and seizing lumps of lime which they hurled at passers-by. Those were the days when imbeciles were allowed to be at large. Now they are decently hidden away in homes and asylums. I particularly remember two men, one an imbecile and one a lunatic, who roamed about the streets of Belfast and were objects of alarmed interest to me. The lunatic had been a sea captain. Legend said that he had witnessed the drowning of his wife and become mentally deranged. He used to walk about the centre of the city, chiefly in the High Street, carrying a stout stick. At intervals, he would throw his hands above his head and emit a terrible shriek. He frightened the wits out of me; but whenever my grandmother, who brought me up, took me to town, I found myself hoping that we would meet the mad sea captain. The imbecile was called Johnny-look-up-at-the-moon, because he was always staring at the sky and prophesying disasters through the moon. In fear and trembling I once walked beside him along the Sand Quay, and listened to his terrible prophecies, at the end of which he suddenly turned to me and said: "You couldn't give me the lend of a ha'penny, could you?"  Belfast seemed to me, when I was very young, to be the most romantic place in the world. Ships were built in Belfast, and I have always had an incurable love of ships. I constantly encountered people who made ships and people who sailed in ships. One of my uncles was a wandering man. He used to say he had been hungry in nearly every city in the world. My grand-mother, a woman of great character, always concluded his romantic stories by assuring him that whatever he had suffered was entirely his own fault.  He could not content himself in his own country and therefore deserved all he got. She was a very conservative woman with an absolute conviction that people should stay where God put them, but in spite of her conservatism, she was the most charitable woman I have ever known. She condemned few; she endured many. It worried her that my uncle's tales of travel fascinated me and she took trouble to assure me that life was no more romantic or thrilling in other countries than it was in Ireland; and that Belfast was just as enthralling as the Himalaya Mountains. I did not believe her then. I do now. I remember her wrath at the frequency with which I fell into the Lagan. Logs used to float on the downside of the Albert Bridge, and I would climb on to a loose log and pretend that I was Robinson Crusoe. Then a sudden fright would seize me as I floated away from the river bank and I would make a wild leap for the land and get myself soaked.  Then there were Orange demonstrations once a year. In those days the arches were made of dyed shavings. Now, I believe, they are made of coloured cloth. Young men used to collect money "for the arch," and a fortnight or so before the twelfth of July, mysterious sounds would be heard in sheds and entries where the young men, dyed purple and orange to their elbows, would build the arches. Only once did I see an arch made, but many times I saw arches "erected." And one wild night, I saw a fight between "Papishes" and young Orange-men because the former had tried to "sling" an arch and pull it to the ground.  On the twelfth of July one walked in the procession. My roaming uncle took me to "the field" the first time I ever walked in one, and I remember the occasion chiefly because I was given a sandwich so thickly spread with mustard that I cried and caused some confusion among the orators. The ambition of my life then was to be allowed to hold a banner "string." I achieved my ambition once, and was given sixpence for my help, but I got tired of holding the "string" long before we reached "the field." About that time my interest in Orangeism began to wane. For two reasons. My grandmother took me to an Orange bazaar in the Ulster Hall. I had a three-penny-bit in my pocket and I remember I had planned with great skill and accuracy just how I should spend it. When we got into the hall, my grandmother took me straight to an armchair and made me sit in it. "Now you can say you've sat in Kind William's chair," she said, and made me give the three-penny-bit to the man in charge of the chair. That dashed my enthusiasm for the Orange Order, and I have never recovered it. The other reason is more remote than that. One night, crossing the two bridges, which lead from Cromac Square to Albert Bridge Road, I was suddenly seized by rough Catholic boys who were members of what was called a "reekie clan." They beat my head with their fists, urging me to curse King William. I took little interest in King William, who had been dead for some centuries anyhow, but I was not going to allow any Fenian to order me about, and I refused to curse his defunct Majesty. So I was mercilessly "cabbed" on the head by the knuckles of the "reekie clan." After a while they tired of beating me without a good reason for it, and so they invited me to curse the Pope. I took as little interest in the Pope as I did in King William, but since he was their Pope and they wished him to be cursed and I was sick of being "cabbed," I did as they told me, and I said in a loud voice: "To hell with the Pope."  But were they satisfied?  Not a bit of it. They hammered my head so hard I nearly fainted. Then I landed out with my fists and feet, and I am pleased to say that I gave one of those Papists a kick in the stomach which has, I hope, troubled him ever since.  I began then to feel that my interest in ships was better than their interest in theological discussions.  It was not until after the death of my grandmother, and not until I was seventeen, that I at last for the chance to go to London, where, with breaks, I have been ever since. I ought to add that I was always scribbling stories and acting in "shows" when I was a youngster, but I did not aspire to authorship then. That aspiration came later, and I think I must have written and written and written before I got anything printed and paid for. My first published piece, I think, was a column in a defunct paper called the Free Lance, which was edited by Clement Scott. After that came a long interval during which nothing was printed, though much was written. Then suddenly I found myself appearing in the Manchester Guardian and the Daily News; and one night, when my spirits were in my boots, for I was living in lonely lodgings and was very hard up, a letter came from Mr. Yeats to say that he liked a play of mine called The Magnanimous Lover, and would I please come and see him? After that came Mixed Marriage. I thought my fortune was made. and, on the strength of the royalties I thought were coming to me, I got married. When I saw the royalties! . . .
     All that is the first part of my youth. The second part of my youth has just begun. I hope it will last for the rest of my life. St. John Ervine.

Mr. Sam McWatters

     We regret to record the death of Mr. Samuel McWatters, which took place at his residence, 59 Balmoral Avenue, Belfast, on Sunday, in his 68th year. A director of the firm of Messrs. John McWatters, Ltd., The Bakery, Cromac Street, Belfast, the deceased gentleman was a brother of the founder of the concern, the late Mr. John McWatters. A member of the Masonic Order, he was a Past Master of St. Jude's Lodge No. 26, and he was also connected with Avonmore R.A.C. No. 26, while he was in addition an Orangeman of long standing, being attached to L.O.L. No. 1251 for many years.  A member of the Church of Ireland, Mr. McWatters was a parochial nominator and synodsman and member of the select vestry of St. Jude's Parish, and he was also honorary treasurer of the Parochial Hall Building Fund, and a member of the District Regional Committee. He also filled the office of churchwarden on two occasions. He is survived by his widow, one son and two daughters, to whom widespread sympathy will be extended in their bereavement. The funeral will take place on Tuesday to Derriaghy.  A service in memory of the late Mr. Samuel McWatters was held in St. Jude's Church, Belfast, on Sunday morning, at which the rector (Rev. Jas. Quinn, B.A.) preached, and the Rev. J. H. Gebbie (curate) conducted the service. The late Mr. McWatters had filled most of the offices open to a layman in their Church, parochial nominator, diocesan synodsman, twice rector's churchwarden, member of the Select Vestry, and hon. treasurer of the Building Fund. Why had he so devoted himself to the work of St. Jude's" Because he recognised an invitation to do something for God. To his widow and family they extended their deepest sympathy. At the conclusion the "Dead March in Saul" was played by Mr. J. Vine, F.R.C.O. (organist).

Mr. Robert G. Geale

     We regret to announce the death of Mr. Robert George Geale, City Treasurer of Belfast until February, 1933, which took place on Saturday at his home, 40 Wellington Park. For many years an outstanding figure in the municipal life of the city, Mr. Geale had the reputation of being one of the ablest and most experienced authorities in the United Kingdom on all branches of local government finance, and his advice was frequently sought by corporations and their financial advisers in many parts of the Kingdom. For twenty years prior to being appointed city accountant, in 1909, Mr. Geale was in the service of the Belfast Bank, whose directors held him in the highest esteem. Entering the bank in 1889, he was engaged in the head office and in several of the branches, and in 1907 was appointed assistant manager of the Central branch in the City.

Mr. Samuel G. Crymble

The death at his residence, College Green, Belfast, yesterday, of Mr. Samuel G. Crymble removes a well known figure from the life of the community, and particularly the legal profession, of which he was a member for almost 40 years. He was a son of the late Mr. Matthew Crymble, founder of the firm of Messrs. M. Crymble, Ltd., Wellington Place, Belfast, and graduated at the Royal University of Ireland. He took the degree of LL.B., and was admitted as a solicitor in 1898. In his profession he earned the respect and esteem of clients, colleagues and the judiciary. He was honorary solicitor to the North and West of Ireland Commercial Travellers' Association, and also the Belfast branch of the United Kingdom Commercial Travellers' Association. He took a keen interest in the welfare of young solicitors just on the threshold of their careers, and his advice was often sought and readily given. Mr. Crymble was the last president of the old Northern Law Society and the first president of the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland, a position which he held for three successive years. When the Government of Ireland Act of 1920 came into force Mr. Crymble took an active part in the proceedings which resulted in the granting of a Royal Charter in 1922 whereby the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland came into being. Mr. Crymble was a music lover. He was also keen on sport, and rarely missed attendance at important association football matches in the city. He married a daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Agnew, who was well known in the tea trade. His wife survives him. Their only son, John Gordon Crymble, was killed in action during the Great War.

7th September 1936 - Mr. James Dann
     The news of the death of Mr. James Dann, F.R.C.O., R.C.M. (Hon.), a well known Ulster musician, of Hawthornden Road, Belfast, which occurred on Monday at Bristol, will be received with deep regret by a wide circle of friends. Mr. Dann was on holiday, accompanied by his daughter, and on the return journey from a cruise to the West Indies was stricken with illness which quickly developed into bronchial pneumonia. All that medical skill and careful nursing could do was done, but with no avail. Mr. Dann came to Belfast from England many years ago with a splendid musical reputation, and for a considerable period officiated at the organ in the Wellington Hall of the Belfast City Y.M.C.A. Later he was appointed organist and choirmaster of University Road Methodist Church, where he served with much ability. Eventually his teaching and other engagements compelled him to relinquish the position to the deep regret of the congregation. Latterly he had acted as organist of High Street Presbyterian Church, Holywood, and there, as in Belfast, his work was of a very high order. As a teacher he ranked high, and his gentle disposition gained for him the respect and affection of his many pupils. By these and other friends he will be sincerely mourned. Surviving him are his widow and a daughter, Miss May Dann, who is well known in the musical profession in Belfast.

Sir John Foster Fraser
     . . distinguished journalist, lecturer, and traveller, for 40 years one of the most popular figures in Fleet Street, died yesterday in London, aged 67. He had been ill for some time and underwent a serious operation a month ago. One of his most remarkable travel exploits was a journey around the world on a cycle, started in 1896 and completed 774 days later, after a ride of more than 19,000 miles. The son of an Edinburgh parson, the Rev. John Fraser, Sir John received an early training in provincial journalism. Parliamentary correspondent and descriptive writer, Sir John had traveller in almost every out-of-the-way place in the world in search of material for his pen and for his lecturing tours. Knighted in 1917, he lectured in the United States for a year on Great Britain's part in the war, and was thanked by the U.S.A. Treasury for his help in raising the Liberty Loan of 23,000,000 dollars. On 1906 he spent several months in the famine regions of Russia. He was the author of many political and travel books. In 1927 he married Miss Constance Mary Lowe. Their home was at Princes Risborough, (Rosborough?) Buckinghamshire.

Hon. Lady Kennedy

     We regret to announce that the Hon. Lady Kennedy, wife of Sir Robert Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.M.G., M.A., D.L., passed away to-day at her residence, Cultra Manor, Co. Down. Her ladyship was the third daughter of the fifth Viscount Bangor and was a sister of the present Viscount, Speaker of the Ulster Senate. The news will be received on all sides with feelings of deepest sorrow, and the sympathy of the community will go out unstintedly to Sir Robert upon the severance of a happy married partnership which extended back for 53 years. A most impressive memorial service was held in Glencraig Church in Sunday evening, when the Rev. G. W. Capsey, M.A., R.D., rector, paid a glowing tribute to the wonderful service of the late Hon. Lady Kennedy. Prior to the service the funeral, which was strictly private, had taken place in the Pinetum, the private cemetery in Cultra Manor grounds, when only relatives and immediate friends of the family were present. The service opened by the singing of the hymn "Abide with Me," and the Archdeacon of Down (Ven. C. C. Manning, M.C., M.A.), read the Lesson.

16th October 1936 - Madame Albanesi
     The passing in London to-day of the novelist, Madame Albanesi, better known as Effie Adelaide Rowland, calls to mind the tragic death of her only daughter, Meggie, thirteen years ago, at an early age Meggie Albanesi was cut off from a life that promised to be one of the most notable on the British stage. Galsworthys "Skin Game" owed much of its great popularity to her delicate sensitive acting. Madame Albanesi published her first novel, "Peter a Parasite," in 1901. Favourable criticism encouraged her to continue her work at the rate of practically one book a year up to the time of her daughter's death. Her husband, Le Chevalier Carlo Albanesi, died in 1926, but in spite of these griefs she published one of her most successful works, "Meggie Albanesi," two years later.

Mme. Conchita Supervia

     The news of the death of Mme. Conchita Supervia will come as a shock to those who have vivid recollections of her youthful presence on the stage of Covent Garden in the recent summer seasons of opera. She entered a nursing home on Sunday and gave birth to a child (stillborn) yesterday, herself dying shortly afterwards. Conchita Supervia was born in Barcelona, Spain, on December 6, 1899, but as a child went with her family to Buenos Aires, where she made her operatic debut at the remarkably early age of 15. The beauty of her contralto voice, her ease and grace on the stage, combined with her youth, secured her immediate success, particularly in Carmen, which was very shortly to be repeated and extended in Europe. She was not much older when she appeared at La Scala and sang in Italian, and, what was even more remarkable, in German operas there. By her first marriage, which took place when she was about 16 years of age, Mme. Supervia had an only son. In 1931 she married Mr. Ben Rubenstein, of Rustington, so that latterly she has made her home in Sussex and London, and has sung in the provinces as well as at Covent Garden.

Hon. Diana Skeffington

     . . the 21 years old daughter of Viscount Massereene, died yesterday after an illness of only two weeks from pneumonia and typhoid at her father's house in Kensington, London, W. Miss Skeffington was a leading spirit among the young organisers of charity entertainments, and was noted for her versatility. A friend of Miss Skeffington told a Daily Mail reporter yesterday:- "Her death will be a sad blow to her many friends. She was a charming and vivacious personality and was a keen rider to hounds. She was fond of the country, the open-air life and, like her mother, was keenly interested in literature and in Gaelic folk-lore."  Viscount Massereene and Ferrard was Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1929, and was a member of the Senate of Northern Ireland for some years. Eighteen years ago, when the family seat, Antrim Castle, Ireland, was burned to the ground, the whole family had a narrow escape from death. One of the servants died from burns, and a guest had to jump from a window to save his life.

Mrs. Marjory Kennedy Fraser

     We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Marjory Kennedy Fraser, which took place in Edinburgh on Saturday at the age of 73. Throughout her long life she was devoted to music, and the mantle of her father, David Kennedy, one of the finest Scots songsters of the latter half of the 19th century, fell worthily on her shoulders. Her first appearance in public was at the age of 12 as her father's accompanist. On the death of her husband, Mr. A. Y. Fraser, headmaster of Allan Glens School, Glasgow, Mrs. Kennedy Fraser established herself as a teacher of music in Edinburgh in 1890, but it was not until 1905 that she was able to devote herself to her great ambition of starting her collection of Hebridean songs. A memorial service will be held in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, to-morrow.

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