DEATH FOLLOWS OPERATION.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20790, 25 February 1933, Page 14

DEATH FOLLOWS OPERATION.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY. TRAGIC END TO HOLIDAY VISIT. The Archbishop of Sydney and Private of Auatralio, the Most Reverend Dr. J. C. Wright, died from heart failure, following an operation, in St. George's Hospital yesterday afternoon. With Mrs Wright the Archbishop was on a holiday visit to New Zealand, lie became ill at Hanmer Springs on Sunday, his ailment seeming to be slight abdominal indisposition. Ab it diu not yield to treatment he was LTougni. tu umstchur'cu lur medical examination on Wednesday ovcniuj} anu entered bt. Cieoi'ge'i> Hospital on inuisaay evening- J-iis condition became worse, aau jt was clear tiiat an operation was essential, though it wu;> net. aimeipawU tliat it woutu t>e critical. The; operation was performed yesterday morning, at 10.bu o'clock, but tlio iireliOishop « strengtli proved, unequal to tlu> ordeal, ixe revived for a L'iiet period, hut collapsed and died at 12.-15 p.in. Tho iviost Reverend Dr. John Charley Wright had been Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of New South Wales since 190'J, and Primate of Australia and Tasmania since 1910. He was born at Bolton, Lancashire, on .August 19, 1801. and was a son ot the ltev. J. Earrall Wright, vicar oi Christ Church, Bolton. He wa fl educated at the Manchester Grammar School and at Merton College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. (2nd class, Lit. Hum.) in 1884, taking his M.A. degree in 1887. He was ordained a deacon in 1835, and a priest in 1886, and wan successively vicar of Kibworth-Beau-champ (1885-88), and- Bradford (188893), curate of Ulverston (1893-95), and St. George's, Leeds (1895-1904). He was a canon of Manchester Cathedral, rector of St. George's, Hulme, anu Archdeacon of Manchester from 1904 to 1909. On August 24, 1909, in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, he was consecrated Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of New South Wales. He became Primate.of Australia and Tasmania m 1910. and was made a sub-Prelate ot the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1929. In 1009 he published Thoughts on Modern Church Life and Work. He married Dorothy Margeret Isabella Piennes. daughter of Colonel Hon. Tvo do Vesci Fiennes, and granddaughter of the fourteenth Lord Saye and Sele. There is a family of one son and three daughters.

BURIAL IN SYDNEY. REGRET AT THE NEWS. (UNITED PtIESS ASSOCIATION—E7 ELECTRIC TEtEORAPH— COPTEIOHT.I (■Received February 24, 9.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 24, Deep regret is expressed in Anglican ' Church circles at the death of Archbishop Wright at Christtjhurcli. His health had been indifferent for a. considerable tinie. The Sydney "Sun" says: "Outside his own communion the Primate waa not widely known. He did not concern himself with public affairs, but he always bore his part in philanthropic movements withoufostentation." Upon hearing of his father'a death at Christchurch, Mr Bertram Wright, who is a barrister, returned his brief, left the Supreme Court, and embarked instantly for New Zealand? to bring back the body. The funeral will take place from St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, when Mr Wright returns.