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part in military service, either as commissioned officers or as holding a temporary appointment as recognized attaches; and Mr. Cameron's knowledge of and familiarity with military subjects was considerable.

Mr. St. Leger Herbert was really a distinguished public servant, and his brilliant talents and the offices which he had held gave him a position of peculiar influence, to which his remarkable social qualities added the sincere regard of all who knew him. He was a member of that branch of the distinguished Herbert family, of which Lord Carnarvon is the head. His grandfather, William Herbert, Dean of Manchester, was the third son of the first Earl of Carnarvon, and the dean's second son.

Captain Frederick Charles Herbert, was the father of St. Leger Algernon by his marriage with the youngest daughter of the late Captain Henry Stuart, of the 39th Regiment. Mr. St. Leger Herbert was in his thirty-fifth year, having been born on the i6th of August, 1850. Although so young he had seen great and varied service, and distinguished himself on many occasions. He was a scholar of Wadham College, and obtained a first class at the Oxford Moderations. His first public appointment was with Lord Dufferin, when that nobleman was governor-general of the Dominion of Canada. He afterwards acted as private secretary to Lord Wolseley (then Sir Garnet Wolseley) on the occasion of the annexation of Cyprus, and was also civil secretary to Sir Garnet when he proceeded to South Africa as high commissioner. For his services on these occasions Mr. Herbert was made a commander of St. Michael and St. George. He was present at the taking of Sekukuni's mountain, for which he obtained the South African medal. Mr. Herbert was also civil secretary to Sir Frederick Roberts in South Africa, and when that general returned to England he was made secretary to the Transvaal commission. He served with the mounted infantry at Tel-el-Kebir as a volunteer, for which he obtained the Egyptian medal. He was present two years later at the engagements of El-Teb and Tamasi, where he acted as galloper to Sir H. Stewart, and obtained the clasp. At Tamasi he received a severe wound, but