son of late Col. J. H. G. Holroyd-Smyth, C.M.G., and Lady Harriette, eldest dau. of 5th Earl of Mount Cashell; b. 1874; m. 1902, Alice Isabelle, dau. of late Chambré B. Ponsonby, of Kilcooley Abbey, and Hon. Mary, dau. of 16th Baron Dunsany. Res.: Ballynatray, Youghal, Co. Cork.
HOOD, Lieut.-Col. Edward, J.P. for Co. Kerry (High Sheriff, 1918); Lieut.-Col. (ret.) 8th London Regt. (Post Office Rifles) (Territorial Decoration); Egyptian Civil Service, P.W.D. and State Railways, 1898-1911; 3rd Class Osmanich and 3rd Class Medjidieh; served in the Great War in France, 1914-15. Comptroller of the Viceregal Household, Ireland, 1917-18; b. 1872; third son of Hon. Albert Hood; m. Nora Evaleen, only dau. of late Richard Mahony, J.P, B.L., Co. Kerry. Res.; Dromore Castle, Kenmare, Co. Kerry.
HORGAN, John Joseph. Educ. at Clongowes and Queen's College, Cork (Law Scholar and Prizeman); Gold Medallist, Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, 1901; Solicitor, 1902; Coroner for Co. Cork from 1914; Cork Harbour Commissioner, 1912; Secretary of Catholic Shareholders' Committee, Great Southern and Western Railway, which was instrumental in having clerical appointments on that railway made by competitive examination, 1902-03; with J.P. Boland, M.P., carried through the registration of the Irish National Trade Mark and the incorporation of the Irish Industrial Development Association, 1906; on Council of Catholic Truth Society of Ireland and National Directory U.I.L. Pubns.: Great Catholic Laymen, 1908—Home Rule; a Critical Consideration; slighter publications, including Should We Speak Our Own Language?; The Voice of a Province; The Realism of Shakespeare; eldest son of M. J. Horgan, of Clanloughlin, Cork; b. 1881; m. 1908, Mary Katherine (d. 1920), eldest dau. of Sir Bertram Windle, F.R.S., and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: Lacaduy, Cork.
HORNE, Sir Andrew John, Knt. (1913), F.R.C.P.I. Educ. at Clongowes College and Vienna; was Assistant to Master, Rotunda Hospital; Vice-Pres. R.C.P.I., 1894-6; President, 1908-10; elected Master of National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, on its foundation, 1894; Vice-Pres. Obstetrical Section, British Medical Assocn. at Swansea; Pres. Obstetrical Section Royal Academy of Medicine, Ireland; Ex-Pres. Roy. Coll. of Physicians, Ireland; Extern Examiner in Obstetrics, University of Dublin. Pubns.: Papers on Medical Subjects. Recns.: golf, hunting, etc. b. at Ballinasloe, 1856; m. 1884, Margaret (d. 1920), dau. of late Francis Norman, Solicitor, Rutland Square, Dublin, and has issue two sons and two daus. Res.: 94 Merrion Square, Dublin. Clubs: Royal Societies', London; Stephen's Green, Dublin.
HOULIHAN, John, B.A. (R.U.I.). Educ. at Clongowes; joined Civil Service and was appointed to the War Office, 1902; Private Sec. to four successive Under Secretaries for War (Earl Donoughmore, Earl of Portsmouth. Lord Lucas, and Col. Seely) 1905-11; Sec. to the National Health Insurance Commission (Ireland) since 1911; son of John Houlihan, of Cobh; b. 1883. Res.: Cove, Orwell Park, Rathgar, Dublin.
HOUSTON, William A. M.A. (R.U.I.), M.A. (Cantab.). Educ.: Queen's College, Belfast; St. John's College, Cambridge; Royal University of Ireland. Mathematical Lecturer, University College, Liverpool, 1899-1902; Inspector Ministry of Education, Cairo, 1902-7; Professor of Mathematics, University College, Galway, 1907-12; Assistant Commissioner Intermediate Education Board, Ireland, 1912-22; at Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland, from 1922; son of Rev. Professor J. D. Houston, of Coleraine; b. 18th Jan, 1871; m. 1906, Irma Caroline, dau. of E. J. Phillips, of Liverpool, and has issue two sons. Res.: Belfast.
HOWARD, Lady Caroline Louisa, b. 1837; Lady Alice Mary, b. 1846, sisters of 5th Earl of Wicklow. Res.: Wingfield, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
HOWARD-BURY, Lady Emily A. J., youngest dau. of 3rd Earl of Charleville (ext.); b. 1856; m. 1881, Capt. Kenneth Howard (d. 1885), R.A., who assumed name of Bury by royal licence in 1881. Res.: Charleville Forest, Tullamore, King's Co.
HOWLEY, John Gerard, J.P. for Co. Limerick. Educ. at St. Mary's College, Oscott; Barrister King's Inns, 1892; served in S. African War with Leicestershire I.Y., 1899-1901; second son of late Col. John Howley, of Rich Hill, Co. Limerick; b. 1866. Res.: Rich Hill, Lisnagry, Co. Limerick.
HUGHES, Herbert, composer and critic. Educ. privately; was for a short time under the tuition of Dr. Francis Koeller, conductor of the Belfast Philharmonic Society, and later entered the R.C.M.; first appeared at Chappell's Ballad Concerts, Queen's Hall, London, Nov., 1904, accompanying his own arrangement of the well-known old Irish song "The Ninepenny Fidil." He has composed a ballet, a comic opera, a cycle of baritone songs, incidental music to an Irish masque, and other works, and has collected many unpublished traditional Irish airs from the peasantry of Ulster. His musical writings include articles in The Fortnightly Review, The Nationalist and other Irish journals; is one of the founders of the Irish Folk-Song Society, to whose
