, 1884-12-10
IN MEMORTAM.

During the night of Thursday, 9th
November, 1884, John Clarkson Dubois
D. d., Rector OF ST. Paul's i'll st. Croix,
passed from earth into the Paradise of the
blessed dead. He was too remarkable a
man, for his Bishop, at whose house he
died, to let him pass away without u few
words of atfectiOnate remembrance.
He was born in the Island of TortOla OH
18th December 1929, n descendant OF one of
those old HuguenOt families who emigra-
ted to England rs a haven of rest from
the broken faith and cruel prosecutions
of France. His HuguenOt blood came out
in his strong Professionalism. Like others
Of those families, his own family became en-
tirely Anglican, always even prOn0uncing
their name il, an English way. He was him
self, like most West Indian Englislmen,
thoroughly English, never being made to
swerve in his loyalty even by his educa.
ton and ordination in the United States.
The connection Of his family with st.
CroiX was long before his day. His grand
father, who had been an officer in the
COldSlream Guards, wa sent to St. Cr0iX
as the head of the Customs during the
English occupation from 1908 to 1915, and
Io ulcNl ItIClCe AlICI tIlO ACllC1b lJdCIiOS1-
ton of Europe in the latter year, and the
restoration OF st. CrOix to the Danes, DR..
DuBoiS's father became Il proprietor in Tor
tola, which was then very prosperous. lie
had been in his boyhood and youth, a fire.
quent guest at the house ofThOmas ClarkSon,
where he knew WilberfOrco and the men
doing Anti-Slavery work. He named his
son after his friend GARRISON and these
occon;,ti,,,, 1NpoIo III - R,01A fl,ot SOO what
he was all his life, a man singularly free
from class p%rejudices.
Dubois was sent by his father to this
Island to be educated by Rev. T. A.
Pynsent, aud is still remembered as u
young mar by some of the old families of
Antigua, with whom he was then intimate.
Afterwards he went to the United States,
to Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut,
a College of much mark, at which he was
an earnest Student. THIS College gave
him the degree Of D. D. in 1881, CON
ferring the same degree on the present
Dean of Chester the same day. He was
ordained Deacon in 1854 and Priest in
1855 by Bishop Williams, of Connecticut,
and came in the latter year to take charge
of his first and only parish. Except a
temporary Curacy in his DiacOhate, he
HIS U6Cl 1GCCJul VA ~ L GbuA 1A WIG
Danish Island of ST. Croix all his life. No
wonder his people loved HIM as they did,
aud telegraphed to me to send them his
body at their expense, SO that all that WAS
mortal of him might rest with those he
loved so well.
He was Il very handsome man, Of com
handing presence, and of refined manners.
But these personal advantages did not
give him so much influence among men as
did his calm reliance on Gods care (neyer
seen more than in his last i~llneSs) AMI his
transparent determination to stand by the
right. Men knew they could trust him,
and they did. He WAS made in the year
1877 British Vice-ConSul in St. Croix,
after the death of his father who had filed
that post. Many thought this would inter
fere with his usefulness, and bring him
into collision with the planters, on behalf
of the labourerS. But his great tact, join
ed to the confidence men felt in his iDteg-
rity, enabled him to use this position to
the benefit of many labOurers from the
British West Indies, without lesSening
his influence with their employers.
In the year 1873, when a fearful insur-
rection broke out in st. Croix, beginning
with the sacking and burning Of half the