CHIROL, SIR VALENTINE (1852-1929), British jour nalist, was born on May 23, 1852, and educated in France and Germany. He graduated Bachelier-es-lettres of the University of Paris. From 1872 to 1876 he was a clerk in the Foreign Office and afterwards travelled throughout the Near and Far East. He suc ceeded Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace in 1899 as foreign editor of The Times for which he had acted as correspondent in Berlin since 1892. He retired from the service of The Times in 1912, and then became a member of the Royal Commission on Indian Public Services (1912-16) . He wrote authoritative works on India, Egypt and the Far and Near East, and in 1927, he pub lished a volume of reminiscences entitled Fifty Years in a Chang ing World to which a second volume, With Pen and Brush in Eastern Lands, was added in 1929. He was knighted in 1912 and died in London on Oct. 22, 1929.