BISHOP TALBOT DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 7

BISHOP TALBOT DEAD.

FATHER OF TOC H FOUNDER. LONDON, January 31. The death is reported of Bishop Edward Stuart Talbot, aged 90. He was the father of Bishop N. S. Talbot, founder of "Talbot House" and the Toe H movement. Dr. Talbot was a grandson of Earl Talbot and (by his mother) of the Earl,of Wharncliffe. Educated at Chartehouse and Oxford he became warden of Kebje College and later vicar of Leeds. Just before he was made Bishop of Rochester in 1895, he achieved fame by striding on to the platform #at a meeting of striking gas workers in Leeds. Asking them to join in the Lord's Prayer, he soon pacified the sullen men, his interference leading to a settlement of the dispute. He became Bishop of Southwark ten years later and Bishop of Winchester from 1911-23, when he retired. Dr. Talbot, however, is best known through his son, Dr. N. S. Talbot, now Bishop of Pretoria, who founded Talbot House, or the original "Toe H.," at Poperi inghe during the war, continuing its work after the conflict was ended. The father travelled to South Africa in 1928 for a visit to his son.