San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-19

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BARoNETs.
Sir John Arnott.
Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fay
rer, X. G. S. /.
Sir William Thomas Lewis.
William Coddington, Esq, NJ. p.
Colonel Charles Seeley.
Thomas Boord, Esq.
KNIGHTS.
Colonel Howard Vincent, G. B.,
NJ. P.
Robert Martin Craven, ESQ.,, F.
r. c. S.
Charles Hammond, Esq, M. P.
Professor Joseph Prestwich.
Willoughby Wade, Esq, M. d.
John S. Goldie Taubman, ESQ.,,
Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle
of Man.
Chief Justice Frederick Charles
Farten, of the High Court Of Judi
cature at Bombay.
Lyttieton Holyoake Bayley,
Esq, for Metretirement from the
Puiene Judgeship Of the High
Court of Judicature at Bombay.
Henry Pellew Crease, Esq Sen
Tor Supreme Judge of British CO.
lumbia.
Samuel Lewis, Esq, g. NJ. s.
Chief Justice William James
Smith, Of Cyprus.
John Smalman Smith, Esq, late
chief justice Of the Supreme court
at large.
KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE BATH.
Henry Hamilton johnson, Esq,
G. B., imperial commissioner and
consul-general for British Central
Africa.
Robert Anderson, ESQ.,, LII. D.,
assistant commissioner Of the met.
ropolitan police.
ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND
ST. GEORGE.
Henry Charles Fisher, Eco, con-
troller of the central telegraph de-
partment Of the general post office.
PoET-LAUREATE.
Alfred Austin, Esq, to be poet.
laureate to her majesty.
A numbe of appointments to the
Order of the Star of India and the
Order OF the Indian Empire are
also announced.
Sir Frederick Leighton was born
at Scarborough in 1880. His first
systematic instructions in drawing
were received in Rome In the win
ter Of 1S42.43, and year thereafter
he entered as a student of the
Royal academy. He subsequently
studied in almost all the great cen.
tres of art on the continent. He
sprang into prominence into 1856,
when great work by him attract
ed general attention, and was pur.
chased by the queen. He was
elected an associate of the Roy al
academy in 1864, and an academi-
clan in 1869. He was chosen presi.
dent OF the Royal academy in sue.
cession to the late Sir Francis Grant
in 1873, and a few days later
received the honor of Knighthood
In the same year Sir Frederick
was nominated an officer of the
Legion OF Honor. In 1879 he was
created an honorary LII. ID. oil
Cam bridge, and an honorary LII. d
of Oxford. At the tercentenary
festival of Edinburg university
Sir Frederick received the honor.
airy degree Of LII. d. He was fol
many years Colonel of the Artists
Corps of Volunteers. In 1883 he
accepted the presidency of a
British commission which was
formed for the international ex.
hibition of the Graphic Arts al
Vienna. At the Paris exhibition
of 1878, he was nominated presi.
dent of the International Jury OF
painting.
The elevation of Sir Henry
Hucks Gibbs, Of Alderman park
Herts, to the peerage. may be re.
gsrded as tribute to the city OF
London, which he represented In
the house OF commons for a short
period. When he retired, two OF
his sons entered parliament. One
Mr.. Alban Gibbs, succeeded him as
member for the city, and the other
Mr.. Gibbs becoming member fol-
st. Adams, the abbey of which was
restored substantially at the ex.
pense Of the new peer. The latter
is the eldest son OF the late Mr.
George Henry Gibbs. OF Aldenham
was born in 1929, and married in
1916 Louisa Anne, third daughter
of Mr.. William Adams, Of Thorpe
Surrey. he is distantly related to
: Lord Salisbury, his eldest son hav-
ing married Bridget, sixth dsugh-
! ter Of th9late Mr.. Beresford Hope