65 AND 25

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 6 August 1928, Page 5

65 AND 25

BISHOP OF NORWICH TO MARRY WHY SO MANY BACHELOR BISHOPS? s • PUBLIC DISCUSSION - ■ ■ v! United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. Australian „Press Association LONDON, 4th August. The Bishop of Norwich, who is 65 ydars of age announced his engagement to Miss Joan Ryder, aged 25. She has been acting as liis secretary for the last' few months. Interest is added to the announcement by the wide publicity lately given to the fact that there are nine bachelor bishops in England, namely, those of Norwich, London (who recently visited Australia), Southwark, Truro, Ripon, Worcester, Oxford, Salisbury, and finally the most significant of all, Dr. Lang, Archbishop-elect of Canterbury. Winifred Graham entering a public discussion on tho subject, said that bachelorhood is a disease that is spreading. “The church is setting a bad example, and some protest must be made. Why are they bachelors? If they think marriage handicaps a career or intellectual development why are the bishops always the first to cry '‘hands off the home,’ and to talk of the sanctity of the home. A bachelor has no one to point out his faults, and no one but a wife dare tell him that his sermons are overlong or that he is vain and pompous.”