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SIR JOHN (Allsebrook), a British lawyer and public official; born in 1873. He was educated at Fettes Col- lege, Edinburgh, and Wadham College, Oxford, and was president of the Oxford SIMON, SIR JOHN (Allsebrook), a in 1873. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Wadham College, Oxford, and and was president of the Oxford Union Society in 1896. He became one SIR JOHN SIMON of the counsel for the British Government in the Alaska Boundary Arbitration in 1903, and chairman of of the Departmental Committee on Street Trading in 1909.
In 1910 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace and in the Alaska Boundary Arbitration in 1903, and chairman of the Departmental 16; major in the air force in Fr France, Committee on Street Trading in 1909. In 1910 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace and solicitor-general in 1910-13; attorney- general, 1913-15; home secretary, 1915- 1848 he was elected to the assembly from ceeded him in the chair of philosophy at Brittany, Dec. 27, 1814; was a disciple of Victor Cousin, the great French philosopher, and when 25 years of age sucthe Sorbonne. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected to the assembly from the Côtes-du-Nord, taking a seat with the Moderate Left. In March, 1849, he was he served till the fall of the empire, when elected to the Council of State, and rehe was placed with Thiers and Gambetta signed his seat as deputy in April, to at the head of the provisional governdevote himself to lectures and the editing of "La Liberté de Penser." In 1863 he was elected to the Corps Législatif, where was prominent in the Assembly at Bordeaux and at Versailles, and in 1875 was elected a life senator. He was the senior ment, whose affairs he administered durrepresentative of France at the Labor ing the siege. From the conclusion of peace in 1871 till the fall of Thiers he He died in Paris, France, June 8, 1896. peror William II.; was made permanent secretary of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1882, and from 1875 was a member of the French Academy.
He died in Paris, France, June 8, 1896. as correspondent to Porto Rico during the Spanish-American War. Afterward he became a reporter on the staff of the New York "Tribune," where he remained American journalist and newspaper editor, born in Concord, Mass., in 1878. After graduating from Harvard, he went as correspondent to Porto Rico during the Spanish-American War. Afterward he became a reporter on the staff of the New York "Tribune," where he remained until he was sent to Albany as legisla- In 1913 he became editor of the New he joined the staff of the New York "Evening Post," with which he remained editorial until 1908 when he joined the editorial staff of the New York "Morning Sun."
In 1913 he became editor of the New York "Evening Sun," which position he held until he took cha his able military and political articles during the World War, his expert knowl- Simonds attracted general attention by his able military and political articles during the World War, his expert knowledge of politics in southern Europe bringing him to the notice of European statesmen. He is the author of "They Shall Not Pass - Verdun, 1916"; "History of the World War" (5 vols.), 1917. charge of the edit SIMONY (so called from its resemblance to the sin of Simon Magus), in English law, an offense consisting in the presentation to an ecclesiastical benefice for a reward. By 31 Eliz. c. 6, a simonia- English law, an offense consisting in the presentation to an ecclesiastical benefice cal presentation is declared void, and two years' value of the benefice forfeited, onehalf of the forfeit to go to the crown, the other half to the person suing; and the person accepting the benefice is forever debarred from holding it. An act of SIMPLON SIMS George IV., however, legalizes engage-begun practice had his attention specially ments for the resignation of ecclesiastical preferments in favor of one of two persons specially named, being by blood or marriage an uncle, son, grandson, brother, nephew, or grand-nephew of the patron.
The bond must be entered into before the presentation, and entered in the registry of the diocese. The resignation in terms of the bond will be void unless one of the presentees named in it is presented within six months after notice of resignation has been given to the patron.