Widespread. grief has been caused by the sudden and tragic death of Mr. Quintin Hogg, the philanthropist and founder of the modern Polytechnic in Regent Street. who was asphyxiated by the combined effects of a geyser and a gas stove in an unventilated bathroom. The marvel is that a man of his experience in sanitary matters should not have realised the danger to which he exposed himself. He had devoted not only a fortune, described by his son at the inquest as running into six figures, to the education and well-of friendless youth, but he had given up his life to work on their behalf. He was a brother of Lord Magheramorne, who was for many years chairman of the old Metropolitan Board of Works. The death list also includes M. de Blowitz, the famous Paris Correspondent of the "Times," to whom that journal offers a tribute in the shape of six and palt coluunns of obituary Wells, RAW.
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