FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
BISHOP OF NEWCASTLE, N.S.W.
SIDNEY, September IS. Dr. Neville Stuart Talbot; Bishop of Pretoria, has bcCn offered the position of Bishop of Newcastle, in succcssion to. the late Dr. G. M. LongArcßdeacon W. A. Charlton, of Syaney, commenting on the selection of Dr. Talbot, said new blood would be welcomed as the Church in Australia had got into a rut from which an outstanding personality like that of Dr. Talbot should help materially to lift it. The archdeacon -said Dr. Talbot did fine work as a chaplain at the front in the Great War. He was a well-known writer on ecclesiastical subjects and his family was. associated with Talbot House, the,.headquarters of Toe H.
Dr. Talbot has been Bishop of Pretoria since 1920. He was at Haileybury and Oxford, and was a Fellow and Tutor ot Balliol College, 1909-14. Then he served as chaplain in France. Before taking orders he had'served for four years in the Bine Brigade. He wrote "Religion at the Front," 1917, and "Religion Behind the Front." His father is . Dr.. E. S. Talbot, formerly Bishop of Winchester..
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 222, 19 September 1930, Page 7
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