"SPENCER LEIGH HUGHES (1858-1920), British journalist, was born at Trowbridge April 21 1858 and educated at Woodhouse Grove school near Leeds. For ten years he worked with an engineering firm near Ipswich, but joined the staff of the Morning Leader at its beginning, and for many years contributed the " Sub Rosa " column, which consisted of short witty paragraphs on current topics written from a Liberal standpoint. He was also connected from 1891 onwards with The Star. He was one of the cleverest after-dinner speakers of his time, and published a book on The Art of Public Speaking (1913), as well as The English Character (1912); Things that Don't Count (1916); Press, Platform and Parliament (1918), to a great extent autobiographical, and other essays, tales and sketches. After failures at Jarrow in 1907 and Bermondsey in 1910, he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal for Stockport (1910). He died after a long period of illhealth in London Feb. 22 1920.