OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 709, 7 January 1910, Page 5

OBITUARY.

■..':. ;-V,;''- . dr;,wM;: awdry. ; ?-'].^ : [- I By Telegraph-Press Assocfatioh-Cooyriirht.; '-.'■■ '.'I :' v ; ;'.V:'■ ■ Tokio,;';January .5. i: , V: - The; Right'Rev..'.William : D.D./ formerly Bishop of'SouthiTokio,.is dead. ;;■; v ; , '■; ;;' ,; .The ..Right -Eey/IWilliam : Awdry." was' educated' at Balliol College, .Oxford, where he-wasplaced in tho first class by the classical moderators.in'lß62, I .and gradtfated,B.A. class in' the:'final' .classical school, in- 18G5. : He : proceeded in which year: he .won. the' ■Wlerton theologicaLessay. prize./ He wa3 ■ordained'deacon in 1668 and - priest in ISO/.Ylu 18G6 he-was ! elected fellow and lecturer of Queen's College; Oxford, and' remained there' till-1808,. serving' at the sainetimo' as curate of St;: Peter-in-the-East,.Oxford;. he,was appointed second-master .1 of.-, AViuches'tor ,College, where he remained till 1872. He then became -headmaster;..of St. John's College, Hurstpierpoint, and in '1879. principal- of Chichester College and Canon of Chichester.; He was appointed fellow ■of St.. Mary; and' ; St; Nicholas College, Lancing, in '1873, and Wykohamical. Prebendary of ;Exceit in. Chichester Cathedral in,-1877. ;He remained" at'Chichester Col-' lego; till ISB6, when' he. became .vicar of ■ Ampoi't":St. Mary,' 'Hampshire. ...In 1893 he was appointed rural'dean of Andoyer. On: Juno 29,. .1895,; he; .was consecrated Bishop' Suffragan .of ■ Southampton : in St. Paul's. Cathedral, and retained with that post; his" Hampshire vicarage, until' ; iii 1896 he was appointed Bishop of the missionary jurisdiction, of Osaka,, in Japan. He; subsequently became Bishop of ;South Toldo, hut was;compelled under medical advice to. resign in 1908/ and was sue- : ceeded.by Dr.' Boutilower. :