AN ARCHBISHOP'S FUNERAL.
1 The : burial of tho Archbishop of Cap'etown at..Oxford,-in-v May "was.- a- striking and a unique.-! occasion—the 'greatest of- - the kind sinco Dr. I'usey was laid- to. his rest in 1882. The.'liody was ' brought from Pusey House to Christ Church, where, besides tho Deau and Chapter of the Cat-hedral, the Bishop was presdnt with bis chaplains; while, as pallbearers, eight out of the ten Bisiiops of tho. South African-province—tho Bishops of; Pretoria. Blcemfonteiiv Zululand; Grahamstowii, St. John's (Kaffraria),-St. Helena, Lebombo, and Natal. Mashonaland was represented by an ex-Bishop. In tho procession were .als'o the Metropolitan of India and tho Bishop of. Southwark,- each with his chap-' :■ .Among thosQ present were the Vicechancellor, the-venerable president of St John s, who matriculated in 1836; the warden * „ ™' c S e i Bishop Richardson—formerly of Zanzibar-most- of tho ' fellows of St, iu "i, 8 '- ® of Pembroke,' Cambridge, the Principal of. I'usey House,. and Fathers Benson, Maxwell, and Congr'eve, "of Cowley, it is noted as a coincidence that tho only two previously buried in ' Ox-fords-Laud, and Jukon—were, like Dr. Jones, members of St. John's College. \ ' ■ ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 257, 23 July 1908, Page 11
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183AN ARCHBISHOP'S FUNERAL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 257, 23 July 1908, Page 11
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