OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20448, 19 January 1932, Page 8

OBITUARY.

RT. REV. CHARLES GORE, D.D. (UNITEO PF.ESB ASSOCIATION--*! ELKCTJHO TEUSGBASH— COI-TRIGHT.) (Received January 18th, 0.5 p.m.) LONDON, January .17. The death has occurred of the Bt. Kov. Charles Gore, M.A., D.D., former Bishop of Oxford. Charles Gore, Anglican Bishop, scholar, and author, was bom in .1853. Ilia father was the Hon. Charles Gore and his mother a daughter of the 4th Lord Bessborough. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating he remained at the University for some time as a Fellow of Trinity College and librarian of the Pusey Library. In 1893 he was made vicar of Badley, Berkshire, but a year later was appointed a Canon of Westminster, and in 1898 an honorary chaplain to Queen Victoria. He was made a bishop in 1902 and appointed to the See of Worcester, where he remained two years, being then transferred to Birmingham as its first Bishop. In 1911 he was appoint-d Bishop of Oxford, and continued his work there until he resigned in 1919. For some years Bishop Gore took a prominent part in the religious controversies which arose from criticisms by scientists and historians. Ho was strongly opposed to the views of the "Modernists," but made certain concessions to critics of the Bible as an inspired record of absolute fact. He agreed, for instance, that it was no longer possible to hold that" the early chapters of Genesis contained literal history, but maintained that the Christian religion could claim intellectual validity, and need not fear the march of science or the attitude of those who demanded proof rather than faith. Bishop Gore wrote many works on religious and allied subjects. That which attracted the widest attention was "Can We Then Believe?" which appeared in 1926 and contained an exposition of what he regarded as the liberal (as distinguished from the Modernist Anglican position. He was editor of "Lux Mundi." The academic honours conferred on him included the D.C.L. of Oxford, the D.D. of Edinburgh and Durham, the LL.D. of Cambridge and Birmingham, and the Hon. D.Phy., Athens.

CAPTAIN R. HENDERSON, M.P. (UNITED rr.y.SS ASSOCIATION—BK ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYBIGHT.) LONDON, January 17. The death has occurred of Captain Robert Henderson, Conservative M.J*. for the Henley Division since 1924. He was 56 years of age, and served in Franco during the Great War.