HONORARY

Rt. 'Rev. William Woodruff Niles, Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire since 1870, who died at his home in Concord, N. H., March 31, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth in 1879.

Bishop Niles was the son of Daniel S., and Delia Niles, and was born in Hatley, Que., May 24, 1832. He prepared for college at Derby (Vt.) Academy, and graduated from Trinity College in 18S7. He taught one year as a tutor at Trinity, and two years in "the high school of Hartford, Conn., and then studied theology at Berkeley Divinity School, graduating in 1861. From 1861 to 1864 he was rector at Wiscasset, Me., and then to 1870 professor of Latin in Trinity College.

September 21, 1870, he was consecrate bishop of New Hampshire, and for many years performed the duties of his office with diligence and distinction. Of late, owing to his advanced age, the active work had been taken by his coadjutor.

June 5, 1862, Bishop Niles was married to Bertha Olmstead of Hartford, Conn. Their two sons are Edward C. Niles, chairman of the New Hampshire Public Service Commission, and Rev. William P. Niles of Nashua.

At the same Commencement at which the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon Bishop Niles, the Marquis of Lome, then governor-general of Canada, was made a Doctor of Laws. In 1900 he became the ninth Duke of Argyll. May 3, 1914, he died at Kent House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell was bora at Stafford House, London, August 6, 1845, the son of the eighth Duke of Argyll and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the second Duke of Sutherland. His education was obtained at Edinburgh Academy and Eton School, and at St. Andrew's University, Scotland, and Trinity College, Cambridge.

In 1868 he entered Parliament as Liberal member for Argyllshire, which he represented for ten years, four of which he was private secretary to his father, the secretary of state for India in Gladstone's first ministry. In 1871, March 21, he had become the son-in-law of Queen Victoria by his marriage with Princess Louise.

In 1878 he was appointed governor-general of Canada, and held that post for five years. In 1895, he returned to Parliament as member for South Manchester, and held this seat until, in 1900, the death of his father called him to the House of Lords. He had been governor of Windsor Castle since 1892. He was the author of several volumes in prose and verse.