OBITUARY.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7524, 14 April 1890, Page 5

OBITUARY.

THE BISHOP OF DOVER.

THE MARQUIS TSENG.

[pus pkbss association] Received April 12th, noon. London, April 11. . The Right Rev. Edward Parry, D.D., Bishop Suffragan of Dover, and one of the Archdeacons of Canterbury, is dead. The deceased was born at Government House, Sydney, in 1832. Received April 13th, 6.30 p.m. Pekin, April 12. The Marquis Tseng, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of Pekin to the Court of St. James, died to-day, aged fifty-three.

The Right Rev. Edward Parry, D.D., Suffragan Bishop of Dover, was a son of the late Bear-Admiral Sir Edward Parry, X.C.8., the well-known navigator and explorer of the Arctic regions. He was born at Government House, Sydney, New South Wales, in 1830, and after a preliminary training at Rugby School, entered Balliol i ollege, Oxford, in 1849, graduating B.A. (first-class in classics) in 1862, and M.A, in 1835. From 1833 to 1856 he was tutor of Durham University. He was ordained deacon in 1851. priest in 1855, and in 1856 he held the curacy of Sonning, Berkshire, under the Rev. Hugh Pearson. On the elevation of Dr. Tait to the see of London, at the close of that year, Dr. Parry became hist domestic chaplain, residing and working with his Lordship for nearly three years. In the ten years which followed, from 1850 to 1869, he held the rectory of Acton, Middlesex. He was also rural Dean of Baling from 1863 to 1869, when he was appointed Archdeacon and Canon of Canterbury. In 1870 he was appointed Bishop Suffragan of Dover, for the province of Canterbury* being consecrated in the chapel of Lambeth Palace on March 25th, under letters patent from the Queen and a commission from, the Primate. It is worthy of note that he was the first Suffragan Bishop consecrated in the Anglican Church for 300 years. Bishop Parry has written memoirs of his father, a work which has passed through several editions} and "Memoirs of (his brother) Commander Charles Parry, R.N.," 1870.

Tiie Marquis Tseng was unquestionably one of the most distinguished and able .diplomatists of modern times, During his residence in England as Minister Plenipotentiary for China he gave numerous proofs of bis powers, not only in his diplo* matic intercourse with the Court of St. James, but also by numerous public speeches which he delivered and by articles which he contributed to leading European reviews. He was a native of Hunan, in China, and was born about 1848, being the eldest son of Tseng Kwofan. Heaucceededhiskinsmao.KwoTa-jen, as Minister of China to Che Courts of, London and Paris in 1878, and afterward* when the question of the retrocession of Kuldja threatened to produce a rapture of friendly relations between Russia and China he was also accredited to St. Petersburg.. It was by him that the Treaty of St. Petersburg, replacing that of Livadia, wad negotiated; and in 1883 he endeavored to come to an arrangement with France on' the subject of Tonquin, on which occasion he was very resolute in his opposition to the French aggression in the Indo-Chinese Peninsula. In 1886 he returned to China, where he oecame member of the Teungh Yamen and President of the Board Of Admiralty.