BISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1226, 7 September 1911, Page 4

BISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM.

i DR. WAKEFIELD SUCCEEDS DR. < gore. ' ; By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 5. , The "Standard" stales that Dr. Henry Russell Wakefield, Dean, of Norwich, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Gore as Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. Dr. Wakefield is 57 ve.nrs of age. Ho [ was educated at Tollbridge, Paris, Bonn, j and Cuddcsdon College, Oxford. Having j served several curacies in and near Loll- < don, Mr. Wakefield was appointed in , 18S3 vicar of St. Michael's, Lower Syden- j ham, and maintained for many years an f active connexion with the Crystal Palace j School of Literature. He was for six r years vicar of Sandgate, Kent, where his energy at a critical l.imo attracted the attention of Lord Resebery, who in 18!) l nominated him to tlio rectory of St. Mary, Brvanston Square. Here lie ministered to a large and cultivated congre- i gation, who showed their appreciation of t his efforts, not only bv personal gilts to r himself, but by steadily increasing (heir i contributions to the Hospital Sunday Fund and similar •;auses. Indeed, lie has always been the first to initiate efforts tending to brinff ecclesiastical parlies together. and to induce the one lo admit the utmost toleration of (lie other. He has found his pastoral obligations compntible with a jarge extent of public work, 9, has been a member of the London School V Hoard, twice Mayor of Maryleboiio, ami J, mi alderman of that borough. In JSO,"j j Air. Wakefield was elected chairman of 'J the Central Committee for the Unemploy- " ed in London, and it is under.ilcad that 11 Mr. Burns has made frequent use of his experience in this capacity. The fact that ho is a strong Liberal in politics did not prevent Mr. Balfour from offering him in 1905 the vicarage of Leeds, which is often a stepping-stone to Hie Episcopal b Bench. In 1903 ho succeeded Dr. Lefroy s as I)»aa of Norwich, '