OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14972, 19 April 1909, Page 7

OBITUARY.

ARCHBISHOP SMITH. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 19, 12.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 18. The death is announced of Dr Saumarez Smith, Archbishop of Sydney. (The Most Rev William Saumarez Smith, D.D., Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia, Was born at St Heliers in 1836. Ho was educated at Marlborough College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was scholar and became a Fellow in 1860. Ho graduated B.A. in 1858, taking a first class in classics and theology, M.A. in 1862, B.D. in 1871, and received the degree of D.D. in 1889. Ho was a most successful prizeman during his university career. Ho was ordained deacon in 1859, priest in 1860, and was chaplain to the Bishop of Madras from 1861 to 1865, curate" of Holy Trinity, Cambridge in 1866, vicar of Trumpington from 1867 to 1869, and was appointed examining bhaplain to the Bishop of Norwich in tho latter year, and Honorary Canon of Chester in 1880. He was principal at St Aidan's College from 1869 to 18S9, when he was elected to the seo of Sydney. Difficulties, however arose, owiiig to the fact that ho received a loss number of votes than another candidate, who declined the appointment, whereupon Dr Saumarez Smith was declared duly elected without a fresh election. Several of the principal Australian Bishops protested that the nomination was invalid, the Archbishop of Canterbury declining to issue the necessary authority for his consecration. In the result he voluntarily withdrew his claim to tho seo, and was then duly elected and consecrated in 1890 as Metropolitan of the province and Primate of Australia. He received tho title of Archbishop in 1897. He was tho author of a number of theological works.)