THE LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CAN' TERBURY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 202, 5 January 1869, Page 3

THE LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CAN' TERBURY.

(_From the Home News ) We have to record the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Addington-park, on Tuesday, October 27, shortly before midnight. Though the illness, considered in connection withthe advanced age of the venerable prelate — for his grace had entered on his 75th year — was a severe one, so sudden a fatal termination was scarcely expected. In the hope of renewing his strength, he made an excursion to the Tyrol towards the close of the past summer, and was on his way home when, about six weeks ago, he was suddenly seized by a severe attack of bronchitis. The archbishop reached Addington on Wednesday, the 16th of September, and, though still suffering severely, was able to hold his ordination in the parish church on the following Sunday. He subsequently rallied so considerably that hopes were confidently held that his strong constitution would enable him to struggle through; Lut about ten days ago, the disease took a more severe form, and the venerable sufferer seems himself, almost from the beginning of his illness, to have anticipated the end. His last days were spent in devotion and in duty, for we understand that almost to the last he was engaged in dictating the charge to his clergy. The decta ed prelate was the fifth son of the late John Longley, Esq., Recorder of Rochester, and was born in 1794, and educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, where he distinguished himself as a first-class in classics. He was afterwards col'ege tutor, censor, and public examiner; perpetual curate of Cowley, Oxon, in 1823; and rector of West Tytherley, Hants, from 1827 to 1829, when he was elected Master of Harrow School. He remaine.l at thi9 post til he was appointed the first Bishop of Ripon in 1836. This see he held for 20 years, at the close of which period he was translated to Durham ; thence to York in 1860, on the death of Archbishop Musgrave; and, on the death of Archbishop Sunnier, in 1862, to Canterbury. His Grace was Pri nate of all England. He was Visitor of All Souls and Merton Colleges, Oxford ; of Harrow School, Dulwich College, and King's College, London ; Visitor and Elector of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, Patron of King's College, Nova Scotia ; Governor of the Charterhouse, and a PrincipalJTrustee of the British Museum. His Grace graduated B.A. in 1815, M.A. in 1817, and D.I), in 1829. The see is of the annual value of : £15,000, and the patronage consists of 183 livings, as well as the two archdeaconries of Canterbury and Maidstone (each endowed with acanonry), and the six cathedral preacherships. The •lamented archbishop married, in 1831, the Hon. Caroline Sophia Parnell, daughter of the first Baron Congleton, who died in 1858. He leaves three sons and three daughters. A man of calm and benignant spirit, of almost saintly discretion, and of unobtrusive but thoroughly practical piety, his policy was uniformly moderate, and his aim 3 conciliatory.