SUDDEN DEATH OF BISHOP
Yacht Wrecked in Storm
TRAGIC END TO SUMMER CRUISE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 21 The “Sun-Herald” news agency says that the death from heart failure of the Bishop of Woolwich when the vessel grounded in the Kattegat during a terrific storm was the culminating tragedy in a series of incidents on the summer cruise of the steam yacht Lorna, owned by the Bishop’s brother, Sir Walter Preston, M.P. Danish salvagers, responding to an SOS call, made unsuccessful efforts to refloat the ship.
The body of the Bishop was taken to Elsinore aboard a sailing yacht before being shipped to England for burial.
The Rt. Rev. Arthur Llewellyn Preston, Bishop Suffragan of Woolwich since 1932, was a sou of Mr. Reuben Preston, and was educated at Charterhouse and at University College, Oxford. He took a curacy at St. Mark’s, Plumstead, in 1907-13, and in 1917 became vicar-of St James-the-Great. Bethnal Green. Later he was vicar of St James, Moore Park, Fulham, and Rural Dean of Lewisham
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 254, 23 July 1936, Page 9
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