THE LATE BISHOP OF WINCHEDTR

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1661, 19 August 1873, Page 4

THE LATE BISHOP OF WINCHEDTR

A fcAOte Lcmdon telegram, which appear* in another column, announces the accidental death- of the bishop of Winchester. The following relating to the deceased prelate is from " Men of the Time":—The Eight Key. Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., Bishop of Winchester, third son of the celebrated philanthropist William Wilberforce, born Sept. 7, 1805, was educated by a private tutor and at Oriel College, Oxford, where he took a B.A. degree, as a second class in classics and first class in mathematics, in 1826; obtained degree of M.A. in 1829, D.D. in 1845, and was admitted ad tundem gradwn at Cambridge in 1847., He was ordained curate of Checkendon, Oxfordshire, and held in succession the rectory of BrighMona, the archdeaconry of Surrey,-the rectory of Alverstpke, a canonry of Winchester, a chaplaincy of the late-Prince Albert, .and the deanery of Westminster. .He was consecrated Bishop of Oxford in 1845, and as such was chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and by special appointment Lord High Almoner. He was translated in October, 1869, to the see of Winchester, on the resignation of the Bight Key. Dr. Sumner. He was Prelate cf the Most Noble Order of the Garter; and Provincial Sub-Dean of Canterbury. He was a F. 8.3., F.A.S., E.G.S., and a trustee of the British Museum. He has written "Agathos;" "Eucharistica;" "History of the American Church;" " The Rocky Island, and other Parables;" a " Life of William Wilberforce;" "Hebrew Heroes;" and several other volumes, principally sermons. Aa a spiritual peer, the Bishop of Winchester took a prominent part in the debates in the House of Lords, and in the Upper House of Convocation* He was • also well-known as a most eloquent speaker At public meetings of a, religious character.