SIR JOHN ROBERT TOWNSHEND, EARL SYDNEY, G.C.B.

After an illness of nearly four weeks' duration, Earl Sydney died at Frognal, Chislehurst, Kent, a few minutes after one o'clock on February 14.

Sir John Robert Townshend, Earl, Viscount, and Baron Sydney, was born in August 1805. He was the only son of his father, the second Viscount Sydney, by Lady Caroline, a daughter of the first Earl of Leitrim. Educated at St John's College, where he graduated M.A. in 1824, he succeeded his father as third Viscount in 1831. The following year he married Lady Emily, a daughter of the first Marquis of Anglesey, K.G. He sat in the House of Commons from 1826 to 1831 as the member for Whitchurch, one of the parliamentary

boroughs abolished by the Reform Act of 1832. His lordship was all his life connected with the Court. He was a Groom-inWaiting to George IV, and a Lord-in-Waiting to William IV. He was a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria from 1841 to 1846. He was Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard 1852-58, and Lord Chamberlain to the Queen 1859-66 and 1868-74. A Liberal in politics, in 1880 he was appointed by Mr Gladstone Lord Steward of Her Majesty's Household, and he was again Lord Steward in the Liberal Ministry from February to July 1886. He was created Earl Sydney in 1874. He was a Privy Councillor, Lord Lieutenant of Kent, Captain of Deal Castle, and Colonel of the Cinque Ports Division of the Royal Artillery, and an official Trustee of the British Museum. During the day on which he died telegraphic messages of condolence were forwarded to the Countess Sydney by the Queen, the ex-Empress Eugénie, the Prince and Princess. of Wales, Lord Salisbury, Mr Gladstone, and others. The funeral took place at the parish church, Chislehurst, on February 19, having been postponed at the request of Her Majesty, in order that she might be represented by the Earl of Lathom (Lord Chamberlain); the Prince of Wales, the Empress Eugénie, Prince Christian, Lord Granville, Mr Gladstone, and many other persons of distinction were present. The heir to the entailed property is the Hon Mr Marsham. Earl Sydney belonged to a branch of the Townshend family of which the Marquis Townshend is the head, but as he had no issue the title becomes extinct.

The Court Circular of February 14 contained the following announcement:- "The Queen received with deep concern this morning the news of the death of Earl Sydney, who had been for so many years attached to her person, and had held high and important offices in her Household, and for whom Her Majesty had the highest regard. The Queen and her Family mourn in him another faithful and devoted friend."

Our portrait of the late Earl we owe to the courtesy of the proprietors of the Graphic: it is from a photograph by Russell and Sons, Baker Street, London.

FRANCIS HERBERT HOLMES.

F. H. Holmes has been taken from us, to the great sorrow of all who have known him during the short period of his Cambridge life. The son of a clergyman who gave his life to the service of the Church, and died young after severe labours in town and country parishes, he was born at Stratton in the north of Cornwall on the 5th of March 1871. After his father's death he was removed to Preston in Lancashire, and educated first at Preston Grammar School, then at Rossall, and last at Hereford Cathedral School. In October 1889 he obtained a sizarship at St John's, and at the same time a Somerset [Hereford] Exhibition. He came up purposing to read for Mathematical Honours, and to take Orders afterwards. It is said that he was ever a popular boy at School. At College his bright genial nature and manifest goodness, in which respects I hold him second to none, had gained and were gaining him the attachment of good friends. He was fond of all sports and manly pursuits. As his Tutor I soon learnt to regard him with affection and pride. But the end was near. He was taken ill on the 23rd of January 1890 with an attack of the prevailing influenza, accompanied with great weakness of the heart. After little more than three days of suffering he passed away peacefully on Sunday the 26th. His death was due primarily to a rare and incurable disease, and medical opinion pronounces that he could not have lived in any case more than a few months longer.

W. E. HEITLAND.

THE VEN ARCHDEACON JONES.

The Venerable John Jones, M.A., late Archdeacon of Liverpool, died on December 5, 1889, in his ninety-ninth year. Last year we recorded a service of the Church in Holy Orders for seventy-five years, in the case of Bartholomew Edwards, Rector of a rural parish in Norfolk: in Mr Jones the Church had a clergyman who served for thirty-five years of the prime of his life in a great Liverpool parish, and for thirtytwo years of the remainder in a less arduous parish in the outskirts of Liverpool, but with the additional administrative functions of the Archdeaconry of Liverpool.

Mr Jones, who was the son of a captain in the army, came up to St John's, and took his degree in 1815, but his name does not appear in the Tripos. He was ordained to a curacy in Leicester, from which he was very soon called away by Sir John Gladstone, who came up to Cambridge (accompanied by his son William Ewart, as the ex-premier himself relates), to consult Mr Simeon as to the appointment to a Liverpool parish then vacant. Simeon advised Sir John to hear young Mr Jones of Leicester preach this was done, and Mr Jones was offered the presentation to Seaforth, from which, within a year, he was promoted by the same admiring patron to one of the great town churches of Liverpool, St Andrew's. Here he drew together a large congregation, the church being extended so as to seat 1950 people and the contributions from the parish to the various religious societies and institutions were the highest in the town. After thirty-five years Mr Jones removed to Christ Church, in a seaside residential suburb of Liverpool called Waterloo, where he remained until his death. In 1855 he was appointed Archdeacon of Liverpool, which was then a part of the immense diocese of Chester; and fulfilled his duties, if with no great power of originating fresh work, yet with unfailing courtesy, sympathy, and tact. He was a moderate churchman of a good type, and loyal to church order and discipline, but singularly free from narrowness towards others. His published works consist of some Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles, Lectures on the Types, The Wedding Gift, and Hints on Preaching.

The following Johnians have died during the year 1889; the date in brackets is that of the B.A. degree.

Rev Walter Godlin Alford (1867), Perpetual Curate of Henton, Wells,
Somerset: died January 26, aged 43.

Thomas Ashe (1859): died December 18, aged 53 (Eagle XVI, 109).
Rev Churchill Babington, D.D. (1843): died January 12 (Eagle XV, 362).
Rev William Wyke Bayliss (1859), formerly Vicar of Stone, Staffordshire,
Rector of Upham, Hants: died suddenly, December 5, aged 55.
Godfrey Beauchamp: died February 11, aged 20 (Eagle XV, 372).
Rev_William Boycott (1865), Rector of Burgh St Peter's, Beccles: died
June 27, aged 47.

Rev John Brame (1846), formerly Curate of Westleigh, Leigh, Lancs, and
Travelling Secretary of the Additional Curates' Society, Rector of St
Peter's, Manchester: died April 29, aged 73.

Rev John Edward Bromby, D.D. (1832): died March 4, aged 80 (Eagle XV, 484).

Rev George Bryan (1823), formerly (1833) Vicar of Huttoft, Lincs: died February 16, aged 88.

Rev Henry John Bull (1841), Rector of Roborough, North Devon: died February 28, aged 70.

Rev George Carpenter (1843), formerly Vicar of Stapleford, Wilts, Curate of Chadlington, Oxford: died January 8, aged 60.

Rev Thomas William Carwardine (1841): died January 26, aged 70. George Rochfort Clarke (1825), Barrister of the Inner Temple, an active member of the Christian Knowledge Society: died Sepember 29, aged 88.

Francis Woodward Clementson (1884), of the 19th (Princess of Wales' Own) Hussars died October 11, aged 26.

Rev Henry Cleveland (1825), Rector of Ronaldkirk, Barnard Castle, and J.P.: died July 27, aged 86.

Rev Frederick William Portlock Collison, B.D. (1836): died June 21 (Eagle XVI, 54).

Rev Frederick Charles Cook (1831): died June 22, aged 84 (Eagle XVI, 52). Rev Thomas Dalton, B.D. (1850), Vicar (1840) of Holy Trinity, Whitehaven, Hon. Canon of Carlisle, and R. D.: died March 9, aged 83.

Rev William Dorsett (1865), Curate of Ightfield, Whitchurch: died May 17, aged 53.

Rev Bartholomew Edwards (1811): died February 21, within ten days of his 100th year (Eagle XV, 481).

Rev Kenneth Macaulay Eicke (1883): died April 24 (Eagle XV, 499).
Rev Thomas Saunders Evans, D.D. (1839): died May 15, aged 73 (Eagle

XV, 477).

Rev Henry L'Estrange Ewen, D.D. (1855), formerly Rector of Offord Darcy, Huntingdon died February 15, aged 57.

Herbert Knowles Fuller, M.B. (1879), Indian Medical Service: died October 14, aged 32.

Rev Frederick Foster Gough (1847), formerly missionary at Ningpo, Chiną: died June 1, aged 64.

Rev Reginald Gunnery (1847), Secretary (1854) of the Church of England Education Society, formerly (1861) Vicar of St Mary's, Hornsey Rise, and St George's, Worthing: died September 9, aged 65.

Rev Peter Francis Hamond (1867), Vicar of South Mimms, Barnet: died October 11, aged 44.

Rev Octavius James (1841), of Clarghyll Hall, Alston, Carlisle, Rector of Kirkhaugh, Northumberland: died January 9.

Rev John White Johns (1830), Vicar of Crowan, Camborne, Cornwall: died April 19, aged 83.

Ven John Jones (1815), Incumbent of Christ Church, Waterloo, formerly Archdeacon of Liverpool: died December 5, aged 99 (Eagle XVI, 176). Rev Benjamin Hall Kennedy, D.D. (1827): died April 6, aged 85 (Eagle XV, 448, 475).

Rev George Lambe (1848), formerly Perpetual Curate of Charleston, Cornwall died March 8, aged 61.

Richard Longfield (1824), formerly M.P.: died June 18, aged 87.

Henry Murray Loxdale (1867): died November 2, aged 46.

Edward Miller (1866), Mathematical Master at Clifton College: died suddenly, May 14, aged 53.