ARCHBISHOP LEES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 9, 11 January 1929, Page 7

ARCHBISHOP LEES

DEATH IN MELBOURNE ! COLLAPSE AT LUNCH I TEAGIC HAPPENING —' United Press Association—By Electric Tel«graph—Copyright (Beceived 11th January, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE,. This Day. The death occurred suddenly yesterday of the Most Eev. Harrington ■ Lees, Archbishop of Melbourne. Ho was recently married in England, from where he and his wife had only recently returned. He bad been confined to his bed for several days with influenza, but had not seen a doctor until yesterday morning. The Archbishop was having lunch with his wife when he collapsed, all attempts to revive him failing. Death was due to heart disease, from which he had suffered for many years. He was formerly a prominent athlete, and strained his heart during his university career. He had just made an appeal for peace in industry, which is attracting a good deal of attention.

. The Most Eev. Harrington Claro 'Lees, M.A., was vicar of Swansea, in Wales,- when in August, 1921, he accepted the Archbishopric of Melbourne. Some years previously, when Bishop Langley resigned the See of Bendigo, the Eev. Mr. Lees had been offered the vacant post, but he declined it on the ground that he had only recently become vicar of the Swansea parish. The late Archbishop, who completed his fifty 7 eighth year in' March last, received his education at Leys School, Cambridge, where he was head and senior prefect; thence he went to Stl John's College, winning a classical scholarship there. Later he proceeded' to Ridley Hall, and read for orders under the present Bishop of Durham, the Bight Eev. Hensley Heuson. He graduated at Cambridge in 1892, and was ordained to tho curacy of St.' Mary's, Reading, in 1893. His scholastic career was a brilliant one, as,in addition to winning the classical scholarship at St. John's, he won the Greek Testament prize, and took the second-class in. the theological tripos at Ridley Hall. In 1894 he was ordained priest. From 1895 to 1897 hewas chaplain at Turin, Italy, and afterwards became curate of ChildwalJ, Lancashire. In 1900 Mr. Lees was promoted to the incumbency of St. John's, Kenilworth; in 1906 he was selected as a member of the special mission for the deepening of spiritual life in South Africa, and after his return to England he became _ vicar ■ of Christ Church, Beekenham. ' This appointment he held 1 for twelve years, until he took the incumbency of the Swansea parish. The parish was the largest in Wales, consisting of 25,000 persons, and 'a fine church, almost' a cathedral. When he was appointed to the archdiocese of Melbourne he was 7 consecrated on Ist November, 1921, by'the Archbishop; of Canterbury "and the Bishops 'of' London, St. David % Rochester, Hereford,' Bristol, 1 Cholmsford,' Worcester, Archbishop 'Lowther Clarke, and Bishops Taylor Smith and Lander. He was cnthro'hed as Lord 'Archbishop of Melbourne and Metropolitan of Victoria in St. Paul's Cathedral, at Melbourne, on 15th .February, 1922. He has written a number of theological books^ .including "When Jesus. Came, ','. published in 19Q9," "') ■' The King's! Way" (1910), "Christ and''His 'Slaves" (1911), "God's Garden and Ours, (1918),''' Failure and Recovery " (1919), and a number of other works. He was first married in 1895 to Miss Winifred Cranswick, a daughter of the late Rev. J. M. Cranswick, D.D., vicar of, St.: Paul's, Stayley. His second marriage took, place at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on 'l'9'th 'April, 1928, the bride being Miss Joanna.Lirinell,-elder daughter of Mr. Herbert Linnel], .of Beckenham, Kent.: ' <