OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

THE BISHOP OF OXFORD. By Tcksraph-rrpss Aseociation-Coryrirht London, August 3. The death is announced of tho Right Rev. Dr. Paget, Bishop of Oxford. He is (il) years of age. Dr, Paget was appointed Bishop of Oxford in 11)01 in succession to the lato Dr. Stubbs, tho great constitutional historian. Ho was tho second son of tho lato bir James Paget, anu was then just lilty years of age. ite was eduuitwt at Shrewsbury bchoot, proceeding to Christ Chuich with a,junior studentship in lbOb. lio won tho Hertiowl Ecnoiarship and the Latin verso prizo in 1871, and toon a First Class both in Classical and in "Litcrae Humamoi'es." He was senior student of Christ Church irom 1873 to IbM, and became tutor in 18i(i. In jSB:J ho accepted irom tho Dean and Chap,or of Worcester tho vicarage oi Bromssjrove, and in. 1885 received lroiu the Crown, on tho' recommendation of .Mr. Gladstone, tho Kegius Protessorship oi Pastoral Theology at Uxford, in succession to Dr. King, who then becamo Bishop of Lincoln. On tho resignation of Dr. Liddoll he was made Dean oi Christ Church, Oxtord, in 1892. Ho has published a number of books, and contributed piio of the essays in "Lux Mundi," a book which created a sensation at tlic tirno of its publication mainly on account of Bishop Gore's contribution, entitled "Tho Holy Spirit and inspiration." Of Dr. Paget's eight years' tenure of tho position of head of Christ Church it may fairly be said that he accomplished an impossiblo 'task well (wrote "M.A.P." at tho time of his appointment to Oxford). Por an impossiblo task it really was to succeed 'Dr. Liddoll, whose magnilicent personality had lor the best part of half a century dominated not only his own college but the whole university. Perhaps it was as well that the great lexicographer's successor should havo been found in a mail so diametrically opposed to himself in character and disposition, -in enthusiasms and traits. An imitation of Liddoll would havo been intolerable, and destined to cortaiii failure. Of superb physique, ho was at once a scholar of extraordinary culture, and an_ administrator and practical man of aii'airs who made his iniiuenco felt in every corner of tho great college over which he presided. fir. Paget was an different personality, lie was tall, almost gaunt in form, with long, thin face always cleanshaven, the deep-set dark eyes, tho high, smooth forehead, the sparse black hair, tho lirm, drawn mouth.- Ascetic was tho word that immediately came to you as you looked on tho remarkable iace. It is an extraordinary proof of tho Bishop's powvr of mind and wide sympathies, that, with ascetic devotion so dominating his nature, lie was yet able to rule with success a college at once the largest, most heterogeneous, and unmanageable in tho university. Ho was liked because ho commanded tho respect of tho frivolous as well as tho serious among the undergraduates. '