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trality; secondly, the necessity of settling this sovereign power upon a more secure territorial basis than that which Belgium possessed before the war; thirdly, the need for a Rhenish protectorate. Men of the most diverse opinions are agreed upon these points. M. Neuray. Editor of the con- servative paper Le XX Siicle, stands side by side with M. Charles Bernard, Editor of the old-estab- lished liberal Matin of Antwerp. M. Jules Destree, the socialist representative, defending the principle GEORGE HENFREY ON February 24th of this year there passed away peacefully at Tregeyb, near Uandilo, Mr. George Henfrey, an eminent English engineer, whose death at the venerable age of ninety-three aroused considerable interest both at home and in lands beyond the sea. It seems a piece of good fortune, therefore, for us Welshmen that we can claim a close connection with this celebrated son of science in that both his daughters are married to well-known country gentlemen in South Wales, and that Mr. Henfrey himself spent the evening of his busy and useful life in the beautiful Vale of Towy, for he lived sixteen years at Tregeyb, the home of his son-in-law, Mr. J. W. Gwynne-Hughes, Lord- Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire. I trust, then, that the following brief account of a life that was not only unusually rich and varied in incident, but was also of real service both to our own country and to our honoured ally, the kingdom of Italy, will prove of some interest to the reader for of a truth the per- sonality of the late George Henfrey forms a valuable connecting link between the present generation and the earlier half of the great Victorian era, of which some record should certainly be preserved. The family of Henfrey hailed from Worksop, Notts., where, early in the last century, Henry Outram Henfrey married his second wife, Harriet Hollinsworth, and became the father of four sons, of whom the late George Henfrey was the third. The parents of Henry Outram Henfrey were Benjamin Henfrey and his wife Mary Outram, aunt of the famous General Sir James Outram, the Bayard of Bengal." The family was likewise associated with another notable stock, the Mar- tineaus, so that it is easy to understand the mental endowments exhibited by several of the Henfreys. Henry Outram Henfrey was an engineer by profes- of nationality, arrives at a solution which in its practical conclusions is the same as that of M. Nothomb, the conservative writer. In the trenches, in invaded Belgium, among the Belgian exiles, these questions are being canvassed, for everywhere there is manifest a desire to see Belgium rising again, with strength and unity in- creased in proportion to the ruin of the country and dispersion of the people. sion, owning no small reputation in his day, which was the period immediately prior to the railway- building epoch, and amongst his many undertakings of public works, he was especially associated with Sir John Rennie in the rebuilding of London Bridge. He died in 1827, leaving four sons, of whom the eldest was barely nine years old at that date. These sons were (1) Charles, born 1818; (2) Arthur, born 1820 (3) George, born September 21st, 1822, the subject of this monograph and (4) William, born 1824. Of these four sons, the second, Arthur, became Professor of Botany at King's College, London, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the author or editor of various botanical and scientific works. He died in 1859, leaving four sons, one of whom, Mr. Patrick Henfrey, has four sons now serving in the Army. The eldest son (Charles) and the third son (George) adopted their late parent's profession, undergoing a rigid apprenticeship with their father's old friend, Sir John Rennie. On completing their training, Charles and George Henfrey went into partnership with Mr. Pauling at Manchester, in 1843, and were for the next years engaged in building various railways in the north-west of England. On the completion of the Birmingham, Wolver- hampton, and Stour Valley Railway (now incor- porated with the London and North Western Railway system) in 1851, the two brothers proceeded to Italy where they joined with Mr. Thomas Brassey, father of the present Earl Brassey, in laying railways for the Sardinian Government. Under their auspices the important Turin-Susa line, reaching to the foot of Mount Cenis, was undertaken "by the con- struction of which," says Mr. Henfrey (Life of Thomas Brassey, p. 177), "railway communication would be complete from the Alps to the Mediter-