Evening Standard du lieu suivant : London, Greater London, England • 3

tut: eventncf STATmAmr Fun TTisea to-morrow 732 sera Tff 3 FATHER OF BRITISH SOCIALISM Tuesday November 22 192t delicious China tea the stronger with more spirituous refreshment And he would pour out a stream of reminiscence and story the cream of which he afterwards embodied in his two books le had a tendency to monologue but no one wished him to stop To listen to him at these times was as good as a liberal education In council as a member of the executive his tendency to a monopoly of the talk did not conduce to the dispatch of business He had a decided liking for gett ng his own way His manner was to express hie and then to appeal to the younger members by saying you think Few of the younger men had the courage to dissent and on questions of policy his was generally the determining voice To his devoted widow all hearts will go out in sympathy COUNTESS OF WARWICK Amongst the sensational conversions to the principles of Socialism due to Mr Hyndman was that of the Countess of Warwick in the early years of this century The countess was no half-hearted convert She spent much time and a good deal of money in assisting the DF of which she became a member Nor did she confine her activities to that section ot the movement Mr Will Thorne MP was one of Mr converts Thirty-eight years said Mr Thorne to 1 me to-day Mr Hyndman was very active lecturing to clubs and I heard him and became one of his Thorne i still connected with the SDF and is the hon treasuter of the party In the early days of the SDF Mr Hyndman devoted a good deal of time to the education of men like Colonel added Mr Thorne Many of the principal members of the Labour Party were also converted by the advocacy of Mr Regent Palace Hotel A A Any night of the six is the right night for supper at the Regent Palace where the smoothly efficient service and cheery vivacious atmosphere provide an antidote to the dullness of the long winter evenings On Sunday night dinner possesses the added attraction of an excellent vocal concert Both here and at the Strand Palace Hotel the leading concert artists of the day contribute to a programme such as few restaurants in the world can boast Regent Palace Hotel Piccadilly Circus (Proprietors Strand Hotels Ltd) MR HYNDMAN DIES AT THE AGE OF 79 COUNTESS CAMBRIDGE GRADUATE AND COUNTY CRICKETER Mr Hyndman the father of Social Democracy in this country graduate of Cambridge and Sussex County cricketer died to-day at the age of 79 at his residence in Well Walk at Hampstead He caught a chill when addressing a public meeting at Enfield recently Double pneumonia supervened and his coraditioi last week occasioned much anxiety Over the week-end there had been a decided change for the better and he appeared on the way to complete recovery when early this morning heart trouble supervened with fatal results Mr Hyndman helrl a unique position in British Socialism and to him was due the conversion of the Countess of Warwk-k The funeral which will be of a public character will take place on Saturday at the Holders Green Crematorium Wealthy Son Mr Henry Mayers Hyndman was the eld son of Mr John Becklee Hyndman a barrister- at-law who gave £150000 to Ira i Id and endow churches in the East End He was born in London in 1842 and after being educated privately he proceeded to Trinity College Cambridge of which ne became an MA At the age of 21 he appeared in the Sussex cricket eleven and played in the team from 1863 to 1868 It was in 1866 as a war correspondent-he made his first important entrance into Continental matters and he was soon to contract a deep-seated friendship with such outstanding personalities of tlie sixties as Maz-zini Garibaldi and Safli After some further European experience he made a world tour which embraced Australia New Zealand Polynesia and America which gave him that cosmopolitan outlook on public affairs which W3S so characteristic of his later career BIRTH OF THE SDF It' was in 1881 that he took the first definite step in his chief life-work as a champion of popular rights by founding the Social Democratic ederation Then in the troublous period of Irish agitation during the busy campaign of Parnell and Davitt from 1881 to 1884 he was associated with the agrarian movement as a member of the Irish Land League and Central Executive Land League of Great Britain He founded and duly began as a Socialist to loom largely in the public eye one of his early episodes being a debate with Brad-laugh on Socialism at the old St Hall in Piccadilly Old Bailey Trial His trial and acquittal at the Old Bailey in connection with the West-End riots added to his reputation as a champion of popular causes and in 1895 he unsuccessfully contested Burnley as a Social-Democratic candidate His influence is further widened as chairman of the International Socialist Conference held in London in 1896 and four years Inter he took a prominent part in establishing the new International at the Paris Congreve Foresaw German Menace While an active opponent of the Transvaal War against which he spoke with vigour he was no lees conscious of the gradual growth of the German menace and frequently wrote on the subject between 1905 and 1914 During the war he threw himself wholeheartedly into the national cause and served as ft member of the Food Council in 1918 and 1919 tiesides his more serious literary labours Mr Hyndman also found time to tread the lighter paths of literature his 11 Record of an Adven turous Life and Reminiscences embody-JnK the fruits of a wide observation of men and ftffairs while in 1919 he published his important study of The Man and His TOP-HATTED VENDOR SELLING AFTER HELPING TO SET IT UP Mr Ben Tillett MP said: In my judgment Hyndman stood alone as the greatest English-speaking teacher of Socialism He was further one of the soundest and most combative publicists of his age Hyndman had groat sympathies with the Italians He was Garibaldi an ora the Gari-baldians He also had a wide and comprehensive knowledge of the politics of India and was consulted by the late Lord Salisbury on many a vital issue His knowledge of the Middle East of Russia and of Continental political tendencies gave him a master potation as a judge in great international movements His charm of manner and his profound learning gave this man who in the eighties used to sell Justice in the streets in a top hat after having helped to set up the type for it an easy dominance in whatever society he THE TRUE STORY OF SPEY ROYAL IT IS ALL SCOTCH WHISKY LAWYER LETTER WRITTEN ON BACK OF A CONCERT PROGRAMME A woman in a tenancy case at Willesden Police Court to-day asked the magistrate to see a letter from her lawyer His Worship (after examining the document) Do you mean to say tliat this is a letter from a lawyer written on the back of a programme of a conoert party Yes sir he is the poor lawyer I Yes I see he savs so here Did you pay him for his advice? No sir He is a very nice kind gentleman to the poor and I am going to follow hi6 advice Magistrate The poor lawyer may be everything you say but in this particular ease his advice is not to be relied upon WAITER LEAVES £6000 EACH LABEL our SIGNATURE GUARANTEEING PURITY AND GENUINENESS IT IS the produce of the best Distilleries in the Highlands IT IS matured in fine old well' seasoned Sherry casks IT IS stored in HM Bonded Warehouses until sufficiently matured for bottling IT IS 30 degrees under proof at time of bottling IT IS sold at 126 per bottle EACH label bears our signature guaranteeing purity and genuineness Mr Edwin Fletcher of Argyle-terraee Tiverton Bath waiter lately bead waiter of the outdoor catering branch of Messrs Fortt and Son Bath left estate of £6176 Mr Nowell Stanhope Stott of Chislehurst Kent nnd of Messrs Sandeman Clark and Co stockbrokers left £170623 CHIEF RABBI AT THE PALACE At Buckingham Palace this morning the King received in audience the Chief Rabbi Dr Hertz The latter was accompanied by Mr A Woolf wlio was with the Chief Rnbbi throughout his tour of the Dominion? which extended over several months Sulwequently his Majesty received the Duke of Atboll the new Lord Chamberlain IT IS THE FINEST PROCURABLE T1RFD OF TALK A woman applied at Tottenham Police Court to-day for a separation from her husband The Chairman You say he maintains you he is mot persistently cruel to you and has not deserted you Then what caue Live you for a separation lie He will talk eo much A summons was not granted GLEN SPEY DISTILLERY- ROTHES STRATHILL DISTILLERY KEITH KNOCKANDO DISTILLERY MORAYSHIRE charm OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN IN A SOCIALIST SALON By One Who Knew Him I have known Hyndman since 1S9L In that year I first heard him 8eak He came to the Democratic Club in Oiancerv-lane to deliver a lecture I was a raw lad from Lancashire with cloak and sombrero ideas of revolutionists and the eetacle of this frock-coated silk-hatted gentle-man with his tultivated Cambridge accent and tlie pronunciation of pretty as nioved ine to sum him up as The mildest-mannered man That ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat Drawing-Room Reminiscence Hyndman was a man of two manners As a host and conversationalist he was the beau ideal of an old Knglioh gentleman and a born raconteur Men of the movement from all parts of the world found their way to hia drawing-room I here they were the weak brethren with THE MISS MARIE LLOYD- Miss Marie Lloyd has been laid up at her Finchley home with illness but is making good progress though she will not be able to appear on the stage before Christina week IN THE DEN JOY BOOK STORIES AND BEAUTIFULLY COLO URED PICTURES THE IDEAL PRESENT FOR THE CHILDREN Annual for 1922 A man applod unsuccessfully in the Shoreditch County Court to-day to have an order for committal to prison varied While in court he was served with another judgment summons and two other summonses 200 PAGES Post free from Ilulton A Co each Ltd 4fi Shoe Lane KC4 51- DEATH text udiKotj lour Asoms White of lYtklum-rusd UatwoUU.