Mr. Henry Vaughan; who has left valuable gifts to IReflectfo~te : ; the National Gallery, the South Kenpington Museum, FROMA BOARDIIoonr MIRROR. and other public institutions, has bequeathed thewhole - of his fortune, amounting to over ~230,000,to philan- The Prince of Wales, Grand Prior of trophic societies. 8 , ' the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England,presented atMarlborough The committeeof the Sir WiiliamMaxwell Memoriql House on Saturdaylast the service Fund have forwarded to Mr.. Chamberlain the sum of medalsawarded by the Chapter to A204 12s~9d., with a request that it may be handed to Colonel Sir Herbert C. Perrott, Bart., the secretary of the Seamanls Hospital at Greenwich, secretary of the Order and chief secre- forthe ,purpose of endowing a bed.in the Tropical tary of theAmbulance Department; Diseases Ward in that hospital, to,be called the Sir William J. C.Brasier, brigade chief William Maxwell cot. The committee are also sending swerintendent : SamuelOsborn. outftoqthe Gold Coast a memorial brass; which'it is' F.R.C.S., chief surgeon of the 'Metro- proposedto place in the church of Accra. The sub- politan Corps'; John H. Buckley, late chief superinten- scribers to the fund consisted oL officers who served dent of theLeicester Corps,; Frank H. Turner, under the late Sir WilliamMaxwell on the WestCoast. superintendentsecretary of theLeicester Corps'; of Africa,, the members of the African section of the Edward R. Goodwin, superintendent- of the Norwood Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, a few of his personal Division Metropolitan Corps ; Fransois D. Mackenzie, friends, and many native chiefs on the Gold Coast and,. assistantcommissioner for the No. I District of the Ashantee, who specially asked to be allowed to sub- Brigade;Lieutenant-Colonel Charles J. Trimble, scribe as a mark of their admiration and respect for: L.R.C.P., deputy commissioner for the No. 4 District theirlate Governor. , of the Brigade ; Charles H. Tamplin, honorary surgeon Ramsgate Division. SirJohn Furley, member of the The will of Mr. Mannasseh Gledhill,which left a. Council, formerly director of the Ambulance Depart- largesum to charitable institutions, and which was mentand honorary director of stores,St. John disputed,has been upheld. He bequeathed ,.&12,500 Ambulance Association, life member, Ao~zd~iscazdsd, of toLancashire hospitals* and homes, and,subject to its Central Executive Committee, would likewise have certain legacies, his estate isleft for thebenefit of such received the medal but was prevented from attending charitable institutions as the trustees may think proper. at Marlborough Houseowing to his having leftfor It seemslikely that about ,.&150,000 altogether will go South Africa as a Special Commissioner of the Central to Lancashire institutions. British Red Cross Committee. The Treasurer of the Koyal National Hospital for Dr. Job Collins, late Chairman of the London County Consumption,Ventnor, Isle of Wight,has received Council, has been selected as the Liberal Candidate for the vacant seat for London University. The Daily jG1,000 for the endowment of one bed from G. R., in Mail is of opinion that the London voters whose Lib- memoriam. eralism survives after a repression of fourteen years, A newadministrative block hasbeen formally ought to rally roundDr. Collins to the lastman. opened by Lord Provost Fleming at the Aberdeen City In addition to Sir William MacCormac, President of (Epidemic)Hospital. The buildingwhich cost about the RoyalCollege of Surgeons, Mr. Makins and Mr. ,.&5,000,contains a nurses dining room and sittingroom, Frederic 'l'reves, who are already at thefront in South as well as bed room accommodation for nurses, ward Africa, the following medical men have been appointed maidsand servants. It also provides reception and as consulting surgeons at the seatof war : Sir William departure rooms for the patients. Stokes, of Dublin, Dr. Watson Cheyne, Mr. G. Cheatle, of Icing's College Hospital, and Mr. Kendall Franks. The chief surgeon to theAmerican forces in the Mr. Franks is already in South Africa, and the other Phillippines, has cabled to the Surgeon-General that medical men are now on their way there. Sir William three cases of bubonic plague haveoccurred among the Thomson,ex-president of theCollege of Surgeons natives. -- inIreland, has been appointed chief surgeonto the hospital equipped by Lord Iveagh, to be known as the The funeral of the late Sir James Paget took place Irish Hospital, and will leave London on January20th. at FinchleyCemetery last week, thefirst portion of. Mr. Robert OCallaghan, surgeon to the French Hospitalthe service being read in Westminster Abbey, when in London, will besenior surgeon to theLangman every mark of respect was shown to the memory of Hospital. Dr. Conan Doyle hasalso volunteered his thisgreat surgeon. The Queen was represented by services for this hospital, which have been accepted. Captain N. G. Philips, one of the Grooms of the Privy Mr. LudfordCooper and Mr. WilberforceVaughan Chamber, who also attended at the grave, and placed Eaves, both recently resident surgeonsat St. Bartholo- a wreath upon the coffin,, and Dr. Thomas Barlow, a mew's Hospital, Rochester, have also been appointed Court Physician. Captain G. L. Holbrd attended on to the medicalstaff at the seatof war, and are nowon behalf of thePrince and Princess ot Wales.The theway there. Surgeon-Captain R. R. Slemanand RoyalCollege of Surgeonswas represented by Mr. Surgeon-Captain E. W. St. V.ICyan are the medical JohnTweedy, Mr. EdwardTrimmer, secretary, Mr. officers of theCity of London Volunteers. TWO S. Cowell, assistant secretary, and Professor Charles of theleading surgeons in NewSouth Wales, Stewart,director of the museum. The pall-bearers Dr. McCormack and Dr. Scott Sltirving, havebeen wereLord Lister, Sir Henry Roscoe, Sir Michael appointed Consulting Surgeons to the troops from this Foster, Sir Thomas Smith, Sir William Broadbent, Sir colony for South Africa. They will have the hon. rank Trevor Lawrence, Mr. H. G. Howse, Dr. Pye Smith, of major. ProfessorWilliam Ince, and Mr. Thomas Bryant. . previous page next page