New-York tribune., 1909-10-02

lord NONKswELL APPEALS TO Us.
-,rs Nonk=veu. president OF the Auti-slavery
l-5 A5c-.Eres Protection Society. who IN that
z7a,-v is sending Joseph Burtt as the representa-
t.-s q Tie organization 70 the United States for
.-s purpose Of arousing. by means Of lectures in
,-e principal cities public sentiment against the
save produced cocoa OF Portuguese West Africa,
product which is now entirely boycotted in Great
britain has been frequent visitor 70 this country.
and vas also one of the British representatives al
re .rre-rational exhibitions Of Chicago and 81.
Lous He is indebted for his peerage TO HIS father
Eho was a very eminent Judge. and died as
member OF the judicial committee OF the Prtvy
CourcE the highest tribunal of the British Empire
A number Of years before he had come prominent
~ before the public n connection with the tech
r,csl points Of international law which he raised
= -ra case OF the Felicidade pirates; and i'm
po--arr was his argument n the matter considered
t5st the American Minister used II in support Of
hs demands upon Lord John Russell and the Bit
ish government for the detention of the Confed-
szcs cruisers IN the Mersey- That demand of Min
istsr Adams and that argument OF the late Lord
Morksurel we're subsequently acted on by the
British government. though not before the Ala
bsrra had got away-a getting away FOR which the
Geneva Court ~ Arbitration nulc1eo the brlllsh
nation 70 the tune Of sl5.o90,0oo
-hourr no- impressive II appearance, the late
Lord Monksweu most versatile aho
norouEhly accomplished man He was an artist
q no mean merit MS paintings finding place on
he walls ~ the ROYAL Academy He translated
me De Corona q" Of Dernosthenes and was one OF
tie anesr amateur billiard players IN England
His artistic talents he has bequeathed 70 his
Younger son the Hon. John Collier, of the Hoyal
Acadsn-v one of the most successful portrait
PAINTERS in london. whose pictures entitled ''The
heat in The Royal ACADEMY exhibition q lS'o
sna The Death Sentence at the Royal Academy
tVc years later have been extensively reproduced
"a o0-h sides of the Atlantic. and furnished as
nuch discussion here IN America as in England
''-a Collier married, first, one Of the daughters
q Gs late Professor Huxley and after her death
a= younger sister. and II is only since the repeal
10 Or three years ago q the English law for
6a1,ag marriages with deceased wives sisters
aa ls sons bv his second marriage have become
Etmate and been placed IN the line OF succession
. he Deera-e of their uncle. Lord MonkswelL
.frd NouksVeL'e son and heir. the Hon Robert
1oLier, spent son, time ~ Washington as Sec
'sa-y % me British embassy there
Lord Mo1ksweU himself has been a lord IN
.efag 20 Queen Victoria Under Secretary of
sae for Foreign Anairs in the last ROsebery
'-H-'stratiou and chairman OF the County Coun-
-fst Is fo say. chief magistrate of that i'm
ms portion ~ London not comprised IN the
'oF limits o. s-nat 81 known the City"
.'7e succeeding 10 his fathers peerage he
'Eso e. +hc bar, and was for many years con-
.sAe-g counsel 10 the Treasury. He Is very
= o1, the fortune Of his family having been
'leo by his grandfather, a Plymouth merchant
ISn Standing and great shrewdness. who Eepre-
~ that PORT IN Parliament for many years