3 MAY 1919, Page 3

We greatly regret to record the death on Wednesday of

Sir John Mahaffy, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. He was eighty years of age. A learned scholar, an attractive writer, a brilliant talker, and a good sportsman, Sir John Mahaffy was the ideal head of a great University. It is only to be regretted that he did not attain the position, which he was specially qualified to fill, until 1914, when he was nearing the end of a long and very active life.