OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 21606, 19 January 1932, Page 5

OBITUARY

BISHOP GORE. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, January 17. The death has occurred of Bishop Gore. Dr. Charles Gore, Anglican bishop, scholar and author, was born in 1853. His father was the Hon. Charles Gore and his mother a daughter of the 4th Earl of Bessborough. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, of which he became a scholar. After graduating he remained at the university for some time as a Fellow of Trinity College and librarian of the Pusey Library. In 1893 he was made vicar of Radley, Berkshire, but a year later was appointed a Canon of Westminster and in 1898 an hop. chaplain to Queen Victoria. He was made a bishop in 1902 and appointed to the see of Worcester where he remained two years, being then transported to Birmingham as its first bishop. In 1911 he was appointed Bishop of Oxford and continued his work there until he resigned in 1919. For some years Bishop Gore took a prominent part in the religious controversies which arose from criticisms by scientists and historians. He was strongly opposed to the views of the “Modernists,” but made certain concessions to critics of the Bible as an inspired record of absolute fact. He agreed, for instance, that it was no longer possible to hold that the early chapters of Genesis contained literal history, but maintained that the Christian religion could claim intellectual validity and need not fear the march of science or the attitude of those who demanded proof rather than faith. In discussing whether Christ was supernatural, he attacked vigorously the type of mind which would not admit that there could ever have been anything supernatural or miraculous. He criticized severely the extremists among the Anglican Modernists and the Anglo-Catho-lics, and called on all Churchmen to disown them. Bishop Gore wrote many works on religious and allied subjects. That which attracted the widest attention was “Can We Then Believe?” which appeared in 1926 and contained an exposition of what he regarded as the liberal (as distinguished from the Modernist) Anglican position. He was editor of "Lux Mundi.” The academic honours conferred on him included the D.C.L. of Oxford, the D.D. of Edinburgh and Durham and the LL.D, of Cambridge and Birmingham. CAPTAIN ROBERT HENDERSON. / London, January 17. The death is announced of Captain Robert Henderson, M.P. Captain Henderson was bom in 1876. He was member for Henley Division.