The death of Father Jellicoe, as he was invariably called,
at the age of 36, robs the world all too prematurely of a visionary who showed himself an able' and successful man of business. The imagination of the popular Pres!•4 has been caught by the fact that in the course of the reconstruction of Somers Town by the St. Pancras House Improvement Society, of which he was chairman, he was asked, and agreed, to undertake the management • of a rebuilt (and reformed) public-house. - The re-hOusing and reconditioning schemes in St. Pancras are his lasting memorial. His great achievement was to explode the idea that while bad housing paid gOod houSing was neces- sarily uneconomic. His society regularly paid the statu- tory interest on its loan stock and a modest dividend on its shares. Father Jellieoe's faith and enthusiasmand sound sensewere the basis of its success. • * * *- *
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