Summary

New Year Honours 1918 (1918)

Holds Swedish and Norwegian Orders, and is an hon. member of the geographical societies in several European capitals. For several years sub-editor of Nature, and joint editor of the Geographical Journal, 1915-17. President of the Geographical Section of the British Association in 1897; awarded the Cullum Gold Medal of the American Geographical Society, and the gold medals of the Paris and Royal Scottish Geographical Societies.
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New Year Honours 1918 (1918)

One of our best known artists. Member of the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and the Sécessions of Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. Chevalier of the Crown of Italy and of Leopold of Belgium. Born at Belfast in 1856; married in 1910 Hazel Martin, of Chicago. Studied in Glasgow, London, and Paris. his works appear in the National Galleries of Dublin, Rome, Berlin and Brussels, and in the Corporation Galleries of Glasgow, Manchester, and Bradford.
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