ARCHBISHOP TEMPLE

New Zealand Mail, 27 August 1902, Page 20

ARCHBISHOP TEMPLE

TO BE SUCCEEDED BY THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER LONDON, August 20 The newspaper “ Truth ” declares that the infirmities of the Archbislion of Canterbury (Most Rev F. Temple DD \ are increasing, and that he will’resign at the end of the year, the Bishon of Winchester (Right Rev R. T. DaSo? D.D.), succeeding him. *

The present Archlsishop of Canterbury is eighty-one years of age. He has been almost blind for some time, and ph ys i cal infirmities have of late become am parent, though up till recently the aged prelate enjoyed wonderfully good health, and was somewhat remarkable for the amount of work he was abl6 to discharge. Th e Bishop of Winchester who is spoken of as Dr Temple’s successor, is in his fifty-fourth year. Dr Davidson is a native of Edinburgh When thirty years old he married the second daughter of Dr Tait, then Archbishop of Canterbury. He was at that time, and for four years later, private secretary to the Archbishop, whose life in two volumes he published eleven years ago. Dr Temple was also private secretary to Archbishop Benson in 1882-83, was one of the six preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, Dean of Windsor, and domestic chaplain to Queen Victoria from 1883 to 1891, and was made Bishop of Rochester in the latter year, retaining that See until his translation to Winchester in 1895.