The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-25 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF EXETER.

The Wsh sp of Exeter. who, on the 9th ineant, wrote to
the Arclibtstep of Can' eridtry resigniog his see, was stow
days seterwards armed with an illness. is.i serious a character
that hos life woo despaired of. T overall the el ose of lust
we. k it was obvious thst the vener.ble please was slowly
Sinknie. to ha rest, and, .1mm...50 hi his nearest relatives.
fe bleathed ha last at 13 shopstowe, Torquay. at half past
three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in the 92nd, year of his

age.
Dr. Henry Phillpotts, Shore death thee leaves vacant the
ste of Exeter, was the son of at, hetel-keepsr at Glencester,
ant Was horn in that city. May 3.5770 fie was about four
months older than fort Brougheni, with whom, more than
half a century afterwards, he nail many a carte controversy
In the lioese of Peers during the stormy timss wh! ch marked
the pas-age of the Itsform Bill lie was educated at the
Cargo School, (Loh:eater, and thence Le IMMed to Corints
Christi I allege, Oxford, where, before he hail attaibed his
fiturteenth 3 ear, he was elected toe sch-lareldp. In Jane. 1795,
he took his iiste ce of it A ,aid ehOi afterwards obtained the
Chancellor' prize tor an essay 'On the Ii Hoehn-4 Relcions
Principle " Within Blew weeks afterwards he was elected a
Fellow of Magitelen College, ant seme thoe suleteitimitVY
J.:elven the POzt offered oy the Asiatic Society for a Lath, ,
panegyric on the celebrated Oriental scholar, Sir Will am
Jnltes. Havilig taken his degree of 11. A. in due chose,
hi, Phillpotts, Ii 1804, niarried Miss Sutlers a niece of Lady
Elden, awl thus resigned his fellowship ; he became one of
the chaplains of the late fir Barrington. Bishop id Durham.
in ben lie c eitinued to bold this tionOttr, in S. e enjiiymmit
Of the friendship and co obtideuce of that right reverend pre-
late. mitt his death twenty years afterwards. It was in 1008
that Mr. P,Opotts first di/AM.:tiler.' himself in theological
c. ntroverey. l putilishilig a defence of art epiem pal charge
delivered by Or Barrington, whose remarks hat been me
csrenisiniousy attacked hy Dr. Liogard, the KOlitall Catholic
historian. Three 3 ears afterwards he Ore ma ie a preterit.
dary el Durham Cathedral, and with that dignity herd the
mire of one of the hag.. r parhheir in the cety of Dartiam for
ten yeas, when he was preferred to the not, rectory of Stair-
hape. lir 1821 Mr ?hill potter took his dtgree of DD., arid in
1825 he entered upon a contr.-worry tittle Mr Charles Butler,
the aiithor iif •' he Bihk of the Rom in C tthrmlic Church."
Dr. Phtllpottit 3:R9'09111ml his answer in an octavo volume, en-
titled •• L-trees to Chinks Butler. Esq., on the theological
pane of his Book of the K an C tiholic thurch, with re-
marks on certain works of Dr 'differ alai Iry Litigant,
Sail ;In some patte if the even-rice 1 Dr. Doyle hi-fire the
Committee of the Biomes of Parliament. ho tins work the
author handled his litiljeot with such porter atfil abort). as to
gain fir homer' f the respect of at le .s. one of his imp...tints,
as evideneed by Mr. But mere •eekb g and obtan.ing all intro-
ductiou tit him, and afierwarde collsivating his acqueintallee
Ititheeesuimpear, Dr Poillpintkfillinved up the controversy
by the priblicathe if " A Supplemental Letter to MIA lax
Betio% E q parts of the evidence mven lit the
liish !berme Cathelic Bishops, particul n.y liy Dr. Dos IC,
before the Committee in the two Houses of Par ianieuf
lii
ito innoitin Id 1825 arid al,o on urtsi passine ain Dr.
esuy or, the Catholic claims." I t the year 1827,
wive the qui 'thin of Roman Catholic emitt i Ipatloti liCeelited
so mach of public attention, Dr. Phill teats cohistently with
his censtantly declared jeMentent of the pe,essi• y 1 effica-
cious eeeurities from the Koin in Carbolic,, issued flu" Leifer
t Mr Cato& g." in which were argumentn brought for-we'd
to show the lit ter worthlessness of these which he propose°
In the Bill if 1825. lois powerful toter Canted very great
sensation at the time, and quickly passed through several
edit iris
le 1828 Dr. Phillpons was appointed to the deanery of
Chester, aid two nears altereevits, On the recommendation
of the 'Pike of VVetitigt ~,,, oh,, was then to power lie Wall
adv,,liced to the blahopric of Exe er. As the inerituat head
of the vast sourh-aestern diocese fir rio may forty years, the
right rev prelate ruled over it with noire if the proud mei
lofty spirit of Under-brand or A'Beihett. than with the mild
and i eeignant VIDA now expected from tl.e Fathers of
the Chu! ch. flairglity owl airmamt unimitiliitg to the civil
power, he at ore ti e di.i not hesitate tit eleolliMiln Oat.. the
Archbishop of Cantelbury hinhelf Tire was in i 859. when
the Pritnote, oheylng a decree of the Judicial Cnmerittee of
the Priv) Couticil. Itirtdltted tire ita• Ci C Gorham into the
living of Brampford Speke, in the count •y of °vino. Buil Od
ithldliotts hail Iv foiled to Induct Me Gorhnot, on the
gronoir Omit tie befit ilOntriltra Contrary to those of the
thurch of Englaed, huS after all immense amount of litiga-
tion, the indielal Committee i eculeir a.atrist him, arid
Archbishop Stonier was conimaeden to carry out the len.
On ins proceeohig to de en, the Bishop of Exeter denounced
hal ecclesiastical imperior as ''a fautor if heretical tenons,"
that u such his Grace tail" forfeited all relit to Cattiobc
o,lllmtml,m,” and that he the Bishep)" thereupon rent-mimed
cen.milition with hum." As to the judges, ''they hart com-
mitted thennifelVelt tit a statement notoriOnAly at VarianCe
with the facts iif the case; their Judi/merit proceeded On
Cmi
uttsr I isrelmol of the canon 0 the Chu oh; and tivii
Bentenee, easped hy other motive, besides justice and ti uth,
was a gr Crum« pi rsteridon of JllStice?
FrOin the flute that he innr,ui,ii red Earl Deep and Lore
Pineitharn the worm agitethei until withie the past
lee yarn II- hey Pt 1 pram was an m tive pordician as well
ass hv • work ir .g polar' Ile was the atilmit lesh•p on the
episcopal herhh minnie th«CIC ti, g period ishlu h ',peered, it
ire les•siog if the Reform AC,,; tnnt no tine twt-tt
I. to lirry viftrot,l the prelatea to ••oret their manes in .•roler,'
t t« 1111nop of Exeter vehemently demarided why the Pi eerier
did not cool tube the sentence as it is Mimi, in the iffy Witt
Shut holdt•nrttuiuu,ncril that lie intended te a. stray the Chu, oh
u well as the font [Odium Fir instal, thirty yearn after his
elevation to the see he regularly dtted thrnligh li,vtivrall on
bin, siltation tours, as there wu thsn no railway mita metrical
In Vet C,bOtit y. II in laid clitagn was delivered in 18-3,
alltee which he has taken I 5 ;Milt'« part In [IMIIC off Ore
The Bishop if Exeter was patron of 42 livings, the Pre-
eenturthip, Chancellorship, Treasurership, and Siihrleanery,
24 Prebendal stalls In his cathedral, and the Arehdeseonries