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I think this is Chong-Hsu Henry Wang, a Yale undergraduate who won the university's junior class Ten Eyck prize for speaking in March, 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9806E7DA1238E633A... His speech warned of Japan's aggressive intentions toward China: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E5D61439EF32A... He graduated Yale in 1916 and received a Masters from Princeton in 1917. books.google.com/books?id=2DJLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452&d... In September, 1921 (the date on the negative at upper left), a C.H. Wang came to the U.S. as Chief Justice of the Chinese Supreme Court and delegate to the Washington conference on disarmament and Far East questions, and as a member of a committee to revise the League of Nations covenant. However, this C.H. Wang is apparently Wang Chung-hui. books.google.com/books?id=K6EqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA237&l... query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06E6DE1431EF33A...

artolog: Thanks for identifying Wang for us. It seems likely this is the same person. We'll include some of your information next time we update the description.

The current caption confuses two people. Art is correct in stating that Chief Justice Wang Chung-hui (also C.H. Wang) is a different person. An obituary from 1984 states that Cheng-Hsu Wang was a banker who graduated from Yale (1916) and Princeton (M.A. History and Politics, 1917): "He worked on Wall Street until volunteering with the International Y.M.C.A. in France during World War I. Returning later to China, he was in banking in Singapore until he became manager of Overseas-Banking China Corp. in Shanghai. Wang returned to New York in 1936 as president of the newly established New York office of the Bank of China. During the turmoil and aftermath of the Sino-Japanese War, he was transferred to Burma, later to Kunming, Rangoon, and Calcutta. Following the communist takeover of mainland China and the recognition of it by India, Wang got to Hong Kong in 1957, and thence, with his wife, Eling, to the U.S., where they settled in Washington, D.C. Eling died in 1980." books.google.com/books?id=_BZbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA18&am... A photo of Cheng-Hsu Henry Wang in 1916 can be found in his Yale yearbook, verifying the subject of this photograph: archive.org/stream/historyofclassof1916yale#page/n337/mod... Most sources spell his given name "Cheng-Hsu"

Nick, Thank you for catching this conflation of two people in our description. We will use the information you've provided to correct the caption.

Another Wynne Wynne situation ! The original quote is from 2 Samuel 1:23 - "Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions. See - www.bible.com/bible/12/2SA.1.23.ASV

Via Trove, she died "within an hour" later - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108210203 Evening News Sydney Thursday 05/11/1896 page 5

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I found an Irish Times article, and the story is a bit more complicated than the Sydney Evening News makes it out. To paraphrase, the Bishop and his wife were in Dublin because Mrs Wynne was ill. She had an operation, and her condition initially seemed favorable, however, on the Monday night she began to get worse. In the end, her husband went to fetch the doctor (about a mile away). The Bishop left the doctor's house to return, with the doctor a few minutes behind him, however, the Bishop never arrived at the house that he and his wife were staying at. The Bishop was later found unconscious on the footpath, and died before being brought into the house. His wife was not told, but succumbed a few hours later from her symptoms.

Fógra beag For all of next week we will have a new collection to explore, we are looking forward to the challenge!

St Columb's House, Kells?

St. Columcille's House, Kells, Co. Meath. I didn't think it was a church. The door was in the wrong place, normally they would have been on a gable end, wouldn't they? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Columb%27s_House And here's a more up to date shot. www.pinterest.es/pin/222435669068993270/

There are other versions available in the catalogue with varying amounts of ivy.

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