RETIRING PRIMATE.
A BARONY CONFERRED.
(BBITISH OITIOIIL wiseudis.)
(Received November 4th, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, November 2.
The King-has approved that the dignity of a be conferred upon the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Randall Thomas Davidson, Lord Archbishop of Canteroury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan, on the occasion ot his resignation.
The retiring Archbishop will thus retain the seat in the House of Lords, which he has occupied as a spiritual peer by virtue ot his ecclesiastical office. He has always made Valuable contributions to debates in the Upper House upon church and social matters. This is the first occasion on which any Archbishop has become a temporal peer. Archbishops of Canterbury have, however, generally died m office. This was the case with Dr. Davidson's immediate predecessors 'in tho Archbishopric'.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19459, 5 November 1928, Page 10
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