BISHOP KING, OF LINCOLN.
TO TBI EDITOE OF THE PBESB. Sir, —Some of your readers, after seeing the article on Bishop King, of Lincoln, in Saturday's paper, may be interested in the following story of him, told to me many J ea " Magi t .TCpst the vicar of St. .Mary & dalen's, Paddington, the Bishop s S"* friend, and a man after his own > fr West bv the way, was offered tne deanery of Lincoln by Mr Gladstone if he had been willing to leave his London Pa Some little time after Dr Kmg's ajv pointment to his Bishopry he went up to Oxford to see h-is old pupii. . should have come b^f°J e rat her you," he said, "but firstly I was shy in my new clothes, and seoondJy l could think of nothing special to s to you, but on my way in the trainJ opened my bag and in it was a matches, and on the box the wor you' must need, rub against anyone ''rub lightly."—Tours, etc.^ December 30th, 1923.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19815, 31 December 1929, Page 11
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