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28 THE WESTMINSTER BUDGET JANUARY 14, 1898 HCftt Wimll uf parting MR. H. STACY MARKS, R. A. regret to announce the death of Mr.

Henry I Stacy Marks, R.A.. which occurred at his house near Regent's Park on Sunday. He was born in London on September 13, 1829. He had for some time been an honorary retired Academician, so that his death will not create a further vacancy in the ranks of the Academy. He studied drawing at Leigh's Academy in Newman-street he was called Dagger Leigh," on account of the swiftness of his repartee and became a student of the Academy in 1851.

He was the son of a solicitor who took to coach-building. Stacy Marks's next step was a visit to Paris with Mr. Calderon, Toothache in the Middle' Ages (1856) was quite a popular picture, and from that time forward the artist's position was assured. His diploma picture, 4t Science is Measurement," is one of his most characteristic paintings It shows an old naturalist, himself almost a skeleton, measuring the skeleton of a huge bird, and combines the artist's dry humour with his knowledge of bird anatomy. Birds and humour, indeed, may be said to have jbeen his strong points.

Mr. Marks executed many decorative works for private and public buildings, including the proscenium frieze for the Gaiety Theatre, and various panels at Eaton Hall. Of late years he had held more than one exhibition on his own account of bird-pictures, and he was the first celebrated artist to be secured by a firm anxious to produce an artistic poster. He spent much of his time studying the birds in the Zoological Gardens, and many quaint sketches as Romeo and Juliet being a specimen example which everybody will remember. Among his brother artists Mr.

known as Marco, and in Punch as Mr. Stacy always extremely popular. The late artist was twice second time in 1893. His wife survives him, and he leaves a family. SIR ROBERT MEADE.

The death also took place on Sunday, at Belfast, of the Hon. Sir Robert Henry Meade, G.C.B., late Permanent Under-Secretary of the Colonies. He was born in 1835, was a son of the third Earl of Clanwilliam, and had been in the Civil Service from the time he left Oxford. Sir Robert Meade's life was inseparably connected with that of the Foreign and Colonial Office. His first special mission was to Syria when he was attached to Lord Dufferin's mission.

In 1861 he was one of those who accompanied the Prince of Wales during his grand tour, and he was subsequently appointed Groom of the Bedchamber to his Royal Highness. He accompanied Earls Russell and Granville on several occasions abroad. In 1871, when Lord Ripon was Colonial Minister, he became Assistant Under-Secretary to the Colonies, and Permanent Under-Secretary in 1892. He was a strong Liberal, and had always been opposed to anything like a Jingo policy. He was.a Free Trader of the old Manchester type, and probably Mr.

Chamberlain's policy was uncongenial to him, but loyalty to his chiefs was one of his distinguishing characteristics. Although he had intended to retire last year, when asked by Mr. Chamberlain to continue his services he consented to do so, but broke his leg, it will be remembered, last year, when getting out of an omnibus. His last services to his country were in connexion with South Africa. By his death has passed away one of the best type of Civil honest and fair, and with an immense capacity for work.

Mr. Chamberlain addressed a long telegram of sympathy to the Earl of Clanwilliam. COMMANDER HENRY JAMES. Commander Henry James has died at on the threshold of his hundredth year. He was born in 1799, and as a child was a spectator of Nelson's funeral.

He then declared he would be a sailor too," became a naval cadet in July, 1812, and very soon had his baptism of fire, for in the same year his ship, the Pompeii, seventy-four guns, was engaged in an action with the French off Toulon. Commander James thus had the special distinction, besides his advanced age, of being the last man in the British Navy who had fought against the French. In after years he was engaged in the West Indies and on the coast of Peru, as well as in the Straits of Malacca, taking part in the operations for the suppression of piracy. He left the service a few years after Queen Victoria's accession. ERNEST HART.

Mr. Ernest Hart, editor of the British" Medical Journal died at an early hour on. Friday morning at where he had been staying for -some months for the benefit of his healtH. Mr. Hart had years from diabetes.

He was born in London, aiid was-only sixty-one. Selecting medicine as a profession, he had a viery distinguished career, and, taking up eye diseases as a speciality, he acquired an extensive consulting practice in, the and his professional reputation steadily grew. -Mr. ttart was a leading medical journalist. At the age of twentyrtwo joined the staff of the Lancet He took a leading part in the exposures which led to the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the state of the London Workhouse Infirmaries, and ultimately to the establishment of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and to a reform of the treatment of the sick poor in workhouses throughout the country.

Another campaign which owes its success in large measure to Mr. Hart was that against baby-farming, the issue of which was the Infant Life Protection Act. In 1866 Mr. Hart was appointed by the Council of the British Medical Association to the editorship of the British Medical Journal. Mr.

Hart was till recently chairman of the Parliamentary Bills Committee of the British Medical Association and for many years chairman of the National Health Society. In 1893 Mr. Hart received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Durham. His writings in the reviews on medical subjects were very numerous of late years.

Mr. Hart was an authority on Japanese art, and his Japanese collection was one of the best in Europe. He married Miss Rowland, a sister-in-law of Canon Barnett, herself an accomplished writer and a well-known philanthropic worker. Mr. Hart leaves no children.

THE OLDEST BARONET. The death has taken place of Sir Archibald Dunbar, of Northfield, J. D.L., who, we bejieve, really was the oldest baronet, though the assertion is always an unsafe one to make. He was born on July 5, 1803, and succeeded his father as sixth baronet in 1847. He was in early life in the -22nd Regiment, but has been known best as a country gentleman.

He married first Keith Alicia; daughter of Mr. George Ramsay, of Barnton, Midlothian, by whom he had four children; and secondly, in 1840, Sophia, daughter of Mr. George Orred, of Tranmere Hall, Cheshire, by whom he had three children, one of whom survives, Archdeacon Dunbar. By his first wife, two children are living, the eldest of whom, Mr. Archibald Hamilton Dunbar, who was born in 1828, succeeds to the title.

The deceased was a pattern of a resident laird. His interests were those of his estate and the people on it. He rode splendidly, had a thorough knowledge of agriculture, and was one of the few remaining gentry who loved country life, and cared little for the constant round of gaiety in capitals. He lamented, however, the decline of Edinburgh society, and in early days appreciated its literary coteries. By his death another link with the past is snapped, for his memories of the stirring days of the early part of the century were keen and vivid.

MR. HARFORD. The sudden death of Mr. E. Harford, the late general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, has come with painful suddenness to people interested in labour matters throughout the country.

Mr. Harford was one of the British delegates to the American Labour Convention, held last month at Nashville, Tennessee. He was on his way home on the American liner St. Paul, when he was seized with pneumonia, a complaint from which he suffered in the early part of last year. He was taken suddenly ill on Sunday week, and died the following night.

He was attended by the ship's doctor, who gave a certificate; The body was landed at Southampton and taken to a private mortuary. The remains were brought to London. Mr. Harford was declared by a high authority to be one of the best Labour leaders in the country. He may be called the father of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, as it was owing to his foresight, tact, and administrative ability that it became the powerful organisation it is to-day.

He was dismissed from his position at the annual congress of the Society, held in Plymouth last October, for supplying the Press at Birmingham with certain information. An annuity of 100 guineas for life was offered him by the Society, and, in accepting this, he pledged himself to still fight for the railway men, and gave utterance to the regret he felt for that one little slip for which you have condemned Mr. Harford was a vice-president of the London Arbitration and Conciliation Board, and at the last General Election was a candidate for Northampton. CYCLE' Messrs. HUMBER and CO LIMITED, have recently prosecuted two dealers for fraudulently copying their trade mark.

Heavy fines were 0 the genuineness of their Hurobers should write to the GENERAL MANAGER, HJJMBER and LIMITED, 32, Holborn-viaduct, London, EX..