OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 6

OBITUARY

BISHOP GORE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, January 17. The death is announced of Bishop Gore. [Dr Charles Gore was born- in 1853.’ He was a son of Hon. C. A. Gore and a nephew of the fourth Earl of Arran. Educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, he was elected fellow of Trinity College, and was ordained. In 1880 he went to Cuddesdon as viceprincipal of the college there, become ing in 1884 first head of Pusey House, Oxford. For nine years he was an influential figure in Oxford, his main work being to permeate the High Church movement with the results of modern Biblical criticism. This led to certain difficulties and controversiesespecially after the publication of Lux Mundi, 1890. In 1893 he left Oxford to become vicar of Radley, and in 1894' he was made canon of Westminster. In 1902 Gore was chosen Bishop of Worcester, where he worked hard to found the new diocese of. Birmingham, of which in 1905 he .became the first bishop. In ‘l9ll he was translated to Oxford, where he remained until his resignation in 1919. He found the Community of the Ressurection at Mirfield, and wrote numerous theological and expository works on which rest his high reputation as a An able preacher, he was also distinguished for his active sympathy with socialistic and humanitarian ideas and movements.]

REV. H. M. DAUNCEY • LONDON, January 18.(Received January 19, at 1.30 p.m.)’ The death is announced of the Rew H. M. Dauncey, who for forty years was a missionary in Papua.