THE LATE BISHOP TALBOT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 107, 8 May 1934, Page 2

THE LATE BISHOP TALBOT

To his friends he was the most sharply individualistic figure of their acquaintance, quite unlike anybody else (writes “ Atticus ” in The Sunday Times). He had Charles Gore’s combination of saintlines sand geniality, but his interests had a wider orbit than Gore’s. Nothing that was human camo amiss to him. For example, he was a great student of military history. He was especially good with young people, for he had a true gift of merriment. Shortly before his death when he was almost in his ninetieth

; year, he spent a happy evening at a I circus. In spite of his lameness in I recent years he was constantly to be 11 seen in ’buses, making long journeys r I to some occasion which interested him. y Tn his episcopal robes he was a superb i- figure, as fine as Mandell Creighton, s But his dignity required no trappings I- to enhance it, any more than his sinit plicity could be obscured by ceremonn ial. Some of his friends will never fore get those family gatherings at Faru- !- bam Castle, especially in the week-end h of Palm Sunday, when Arthur Balfour f would reveal himself as a veYy different i.j figure from the formidable dialectician h • of Parliament and the idol of society.