The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-09
OBITUARY..
THOMAS BERRY HoRsFALL, NJ. p.


December %. at the age of seventy three years. He
at one time occupied very prominent place in Liv-
erpool politics. business and charities but of late
years had retired from active life, residing chiefly at
his beautiful country seat Bellamour Hall. Stafford
shire He the eldest of Mr.. Charles Hors-
fall. prominent merchant at Liverpool Mayor
of that city and chairman of the West India
ton at the time of the anti-savery agitations fifty
years ago. MIR. I. b. Horsfall born at Liver
| pool in 1905 and became partner with
his father in the mercantile business under
the firm name of Charles Horsfal 4 Son. Like his
| father he stanch conservative actively OPP
| posed to the attempt OF. Mr.. Ward, NJ. p. for ST.
| Adams to reduce the establishment of the lrish
Church. and was largely influential in 1888 in pre-
venting the Acknowledgement OF the freemen of
| Liverpool the charge of corruption He
unsuccessful candidate for the Liverpool Council in
1897 but elected Alderman in 1874 Tor the term
OF six years. He was Mayor of Liverpool in 1s47-S,
during the agitated period OF the French Revolution,
and distinguished himself by the elaborate military
precautions he took against threatened denonstra
] ton of the Irish "Repeaors' st. Patrick Day,
| March II. 1siS, for which service he received the
thanks of influential deputation He elected TO
Parliament for Derby i'll 1852 but unseated petition
| In July 1853, he was returned to Parliament at
the head OF the poll at special election his liberal
| competitors being Hon. Henry Thomas Liddell and
Sir Erskine Perry Mr. Horsall retained his seat at
every election until 1865 when after the passage of
! the Disrae Reform bill, from which he dssented,
| he retired from the representation OF the borough
| and succeeded by Viscount Sandon. During his
fifteen years service Mr.. L. Il. Horsfal notable
man i'll Parliament and though not skilled orator,
always commanded the attention of the House by his
| thoroughly practical views on many subjects. He
was d member of the first Royal Commission on Rail-
ways and the leading champion of Mr.. Days project
for uniting the Customs and the Excise under one
management, and of the immunity OF commerce
from the consequences of war at sea. Mr.. Hors-
of sincere evangelical piety with the fathfulness
of unquestioning toryism" Naturally he was
decided convictions. and he made gallant and sue
cesstul fight against the bills successfully introduced
| by Sir Joshua Walmsley, III 1885, and by Sir John
Shelly in 1857 to throw open the British Museum
and other public institutions on Sunday. The Liver
| pool member presided ut public meeting ut st.
! Georges Hail. ut which numerously signed petition
against the bill was agreed upon Mr. Horsfall took
deep interest in religious and benevolent institutions
toward which he always displayed great nberality.
He vice president Of the Church OF England
School Society," the Lancashire Female Refuge and the
Liverpool Church of England Magdalen Institution;
patron of the Liverpool Benevolent Society for Re-
claiming Fallen Women and OF the Liverpool Sea-
mems Orphanage; president Of the Church Assoca-
ton and of the Liverpool Workshops and Home
Teaching Society for the Outdoor Blind member of
the committee Of the Liverpool Church Building So
ciety the Liverpool and West Lancashire Church
Missionary Society and the Young Mems Christian
Association. Among the institutions in which the
deceased gentleman took special interest was the
Bluecoat Hospital the children OF which every
by invitation paid visit to his residence in
entertained them well. besides paying the
cost of special train for their conveyance.
Der OF Commerce and its first president; ali hon.
orary member Of the Mercantile Marine Service As
socation and trustee OF the Liverpool Licensed
victuallers Association. He justice Of the
peace for the borough and county and deputy lieu
tenant of Lancashire He was four times married.
his last wife surviving him. but lett no children I'M
mediately after his death became known at Liverpool
flags were hosted at half mast on the Town Hall po-
lice buildings and the Dock offices out of respect for
his memory. similar tribute being paid to him by
the steamers Of the Inlpan line. OF which the de-
ceased was one of the proprietors.
PROFESSOR THOMAS THOMSON JACKSON, D. D.,
SCOTTISH THEoLoGIAN.
Rev. Thomas T. Jackson Professor of Ecclesiastical
History in the University of Glasgow, died ut ST. An
drews Scotland December "a, after short illness.
He born about 1896. was educated at Glasgow
and for years amanuensis to the celebrated
metaphysician, Dugald Stewart. He appointed
by the Grown Professor of Divinity aud Biblical
Criticism at ST. Marys College. St. Andrews in 1886.
At that time he had been heard of in Scottish
theological circles and his appointment occasoned
much surprise According to custom. it became the
duty OF the new professor to preside at the next
ordination Of minister in that presbytery and to
preach the sermon which he did Gin strain Of such
philosophc elevation to take away the breath Of
the listeners aud greatly impress the breth-
his death he was never known to preach
| but once more, and he was long famous in Scotland
the strength of his single sermon He brought TO
his professional duties that for the forms
OF philosophic speech which he had learned from
his great master. Dugald Stewart, was profound
thinker and animated by one chief desire-namely,
identify the study of theology with that of phil
osophy. Naturally enough he was, in 1885, regarded
something of a portent in the theological halls
Of Scotland. and there many whispers of the
strangeness Of his teaching. all the since tho
students did not well understand him. and he be-
came to them a sort of theological phantom. .
a living impersonation Of the general prin-
ns lectures he was raDsd n the a'a rad
tional Scottish school of political liberalism.
and it claimed for him that his theological views
| ,f Elara1 andto Init
he had not the gift or clear expression, and many Of
the vagaries of modern thought seemed to him so in
descrbaby absurd that he could only convey an in
tnation of his mental attitude by ercely spoken de-
nunciations of the modern spirit in politics and
science. He transferred in 1851 as professor of
ecclesiastical history at Glasgow, and resided there
during the winter sessions, but was always more at
had a remarkable affinity with the city of his sum
mer residence, where his venerable appearance and
high bred dignity made hum one Of the local celeori-
ties and will hand down his fame to future genera
tons of Scottish thcologians.
HON. JULIAN HAITRIDoE, MEMBER OF CONGRESS
FOR GEORGIA.
Julian Hartridge. member of Congress from the
Savannah district in Georgia died at Washington, at
six A. NJ. yesterday, of pneumonia after brief ILL
He had been treated by hypodcrmic injections
of morphine, which. in the opinion of of his
friends hastened his death. His family in Georgia
had no intimation of his illness which not
| sidcred dangerous until Monday night. Mr.. Hart
| ridge native of Savannah, and was forty six
| years OF age. He received collegiate education.
| studied law at Cambridge. Mass, and admitted
to the Georgia Bar about 1855; became solicitor Gen
eral of the Eastern Circuit OF Georgia and member
| OF the State Legislature and was a member of the
| National Democratic Convention at Charleston in
1850 At the outbreak of the Of secession he
| ccived a commission in the Confederate army, III
which he served for about year. Early in 1862 he
took his seat in the Confederate Congress mem
Der for his native State. In 1871 he chairman of
the Democratic Executive Committee of Georgia. and
was chosen elcctor at large in 1872; elected
CONGRESSMAN large in 1874 aud reelected In 1876
In Congress he was considered one of the most
brilliant of the Southern members He chair
of the subcommittee lately appointed to invest
gate the proceedings of John |. Davenport in New
York city. Congress yesterday adjourned in con-