uncle. At Leeds he found employment in the tanyard of a Mr. Robert
Barker, where he presently became foreman. He afterwards returned to
Horncastle and worked in the tanyard of the late Mr. Hawling; but went
back to Leeds and commenced tanning on his own account, at Meanwood near
Leeds, and afterwards on a still larger scale at Buslingthorpe. He
speedily began to prosper, and in due course was succeeded by his son;
who made a large fortune in the same business. He became a magistrate of
Leeds, and was elected to the Mayoralty in 1895. He represented North
Leeds in Parliament for many years, as a conservative, being first
elected in April, 1880, and re-elected five times, with ever increasing
majorities. He was for many years a Director and Chairman of G.N.R.
Company, and held other public offices. In 1896 he succeeded Mr. A. J.
Balfour, under Lord Salisbury's administration, as Chief Secretary for
Ireland, being also, for several years, Financial Secretary of the
Treasury; and was raised to the peerage in June, 1902. He was born in
1840, married in 1860, Grace, the only daughter of George Tempest, Esq.
He owns, as his country seat, Allerton Hall, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, and
27, Cadogan Square, as his town residence. His uncle, Mr. John Green,
still lives in Horncastle, on the Edlington Road.

EDWARD GILLIAT.

Edward Gilliat was the eldest son of the late Mr. George Gilliat, of the
Manor House (now called "Banovallum"), by his second wife. He was
educated partly at the Grammar School, being afterwards a pupil of Canon
Sanderson, at Seaford, Sussex. He entered at Pembroke College, Oxford,
where he obtained a scholarship in 1861. In 1862 he took a 1st class in
Classical Moderations, and 1st Literae Humaniores, 1864. In 1867 he was
_Proxime accessit_ for the Latin essay. He was appointed Assistant
Master at Westminster School, Sept., 1867, holding the post to Dec.,
1870. He was ordained deacon in 1870 and priest in 1871, by the Bishop
of London. In Sep. 1871, he was appointed Assistant Master at Harrow,
where he remained till 1900. He has been a voluminous writer, publishing
his first work, _Asylum Christi_, 3 vols., in 1875; _On the Wolds_, 1879;
_Under the Downs_, 1882; _Forest Outlaws_, 1886; _John Standish_, 1889;
_In Lincoln Green_, 1893; _Wolf Head_, 1898; _The King's Reeve_, 1899;
_Romance of Modern Sieges_, 1907; and _God save King Alfred_, in the same
year. He also published, for the S.P.C.K