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OBITUARY.— ♦ *Mr. Hbxry Reeve, C.R., D.C.L., formerlyRegistrar of the Privy Council, and editor of the “ Edinburgh Review,” died at Christchurch, Hants, at half-past one yesterday. He was just over eighty-two years of age, and had been ill about three weeks from a serious internal complaint. He uuderwent a painful operation a week ago, from the effects of which he died. He leaves a widow and one daughter. Mr. Reeve, who was educated at Geneva and Munich, was appointed Registrar of the Privy Council in 1837, and held that office until 1887, when he resigned. In 1865 he was elected a corresponding member of the Institute of France, and four years later the University of Oxford conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L. Among his publications were some essays, under the title of “Royal and Republican Franc*,” translations of De Tocquevillp’s work on “ Democracy in America,” and M. Guizot’s “Washington.” He brought out a revised edition of “ Whitelocke’s Journal of the Swedish Embassy in 1853—54,” and a “Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV.,” by Charles C. F. Greville, which had been entrusted to him by the author. Mr. Reeve succeeded the late Sir G. C. Lewis as editor of the “ Edinburgh Review ” in 1855.Mr. Charles Tyringham Praed, who represented St. Ives from 1874 to 1880, died on Saturday, at Wimbledon, at the age of sixty-two. He was the second son of the late Mr. James Backwell Praed, M.P., of Tyringham, Newport Pagnel, Bucks, and Trevethoe, Cornwall, by his marriage with Sophia, daughtt; of Mr. Charles Chaplin, M.P., of Blaekney, Lincolnshire, was born at Tyringham in 1833, and educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. Mr. Praed. who was; a banker in London, was elected in the Conservative interest for St. Ives in December, 1874, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. fi. G. Davenport, but in the February following was unseated, the election having been declared void. The result of the new election, which took place on March b, was:—Mr. C. T. Praed (C.), 658 ; Sir Francis Lycett (L.), 550. He continued to represent that constituency till the Dissolution of 1880, when he did not offer himself for re-election.The Post of Berlin announces the death of Dr. Stapff, the geologist, in Usumbara, German East Africa. At the request of the German East Africa Company he proceeded to East Africa only a few months ago in order to prospect for gold.
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Tue, Oct 22, 1895
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