The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-07-26 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF
WINCHESTER.

The intelligence that • terrlole acedeat had ranged the
death f the Bishop of Wthe,ter are received thr. 'nebula
She country with deep anc general regret. The accident
Warred as Mows :

On Saturday the Bishop, accompanied by Lord
Granville, left London by the Sont roWestern Railway,
with the intention of paying a short vimit to the Hon.
Edward Frederick Levestl Gower, of Holmbury, near
Dorkim:, where Mr. Gladstone had arrived to meet
them. At Leatherhead they were met by a groom
with horses. The Biehop mounted one which,
on account of itB gummiest., WSB a special favourite
of Lord Granville's. Toe distance of Holtnbory
from Leatherheed is about seven miles and the
route lies through the most picturerrpie parts of
Surrey. After 'wising the Burford-brido Hotel they
left the high road, and. leaving Dorking in the valley,
matte their way over Rminooroionamon. From tide
point tney pursued the bridle road towards Leith-hill,
where the scenery is empecially attractive. Beyond
the Ackhuret Downs Lod Granville, being very tau&
liar with thin part of the country, led the way down
the hill towards Abinger, and arrived on a piece of
moorland locally known as " Everehede rough." A
waggon road here being very full of nits, they
left it for the turf, which is very light arid springy,
but is not good galloping ground. The Bishop
and Lrd Granville were n conversation when the
Hi, hop's horse etumirled, it is believed, over a stone,
and threw its rider on his head. After a slight con.
vuleive movement the Bisrpo became motionlese. The
accident hapremetl oporrette • range of farm bruldinge,
the only houree in the neighbourhood. Lord Granville
at once dismounted, rod, seeing no signs of life, de-
spatched the groom for anistance to Abinger Hall,
which wax the freareet h.mite. Death appears to have
been instantaneoue, as the Beln,p fed on hie head, and,
timber completely over, dislocated his neck. The
it ray was conveyed to Abinger Hall, the neat of
Mr. F %reel., the secretary of the Board of Trade.
Lori Granvi le asenting to carry the in r•iy.
were cent to Dorking end rthin e for melted aid and
Dr. Clark and Mr. Fornival were soon on the epot, but
the itieh ro was beyond all assietance. From the mo.
ment he fell he showed no signs of life. His hat woo
comp etch, crushed in, but no the body there were no
mares whatever, though on Saturday mornieg there
wise a Plight extravrwarion of blood under the left ear.
The face was as viscid as in life.
The intelligence of 'he melancholy event was at
once teletraphei to his Lordehip's family, and on
Sunday inorniog hie young.st an, the Rev. Mr.
Wilherfor e, &nivel at Abinger. He visited the scene
of the accident, and caused a creels to be cot in the
Cod where hit father fail. On an examination of the
ground, it was rercert .tneri that there in • slight
declivity at the place where the .ccideut occurred. The
Med•marks pinirlyshowed where the horse ',tumbled,
and a few feet further on where it recovered it,
footing.

The Tunes in cloeing their lengthened ketch of hie
life, eaym

Swam I Wilberforce, for upwards of a quarter of. century
limbo)iucc-•sivel) of Oxfoid and Wincloster, n.e holli at
Broomedeld-house. Clapham common, mare', on the jib of
September, 1£03; he had not, therefore, completed his 68111
year at the time of Ids death. He was the third son of
William Wilberforce, celebrated for the share he had $n the
eh Idiot, of the Slave Trade, and the author el the well.
known and ever popular Practical Vino of Chrittianoty,
who, after representing Bull end Me native county Turn-
slily°, In Parliament for many years, tiled in July, 1h33, full
1,1 days, and was honoured by a tuellc funs, at arid a
monument In Wert °drib r Abney. Be his wife, Barbara
Annie, eldest el...shier of the late Mr. Isaac Spooner,
of lamilon halt, Warwickshire, he had, together with two
dausliters, four sons, all of whom rose to eminence. The
.IM-et, Wa11.% who still surely., represents, Hull In For.
Bement for a short thee In I b 37 3i the seared *as Robert
Isaac Wtiberforce, Some time Archdeacon of the East Riding
of York,hlre, wi,, sled In Jta y In 147, not long after
having resigned his preferments and joined the Komori
Catholic Church, a step which hail been previonsly Wish by
the youngest of the force,,,, air, Hour, William Wilber-
force, come time Vicar of Earl Farleigh, Kent, whose death
we rec•vied since the commencement of the present year.
The third son, Samuel, was the Prelate whose death we have
Just announced.
" Of a man who has lived so much and so long In public
as tne late fligeop, it •finwn tame and trite to say 'hat
he was moss popular la society, and beloved, bo'h as Arch-
deacon nod Bishop, ho all his clergy, except therein mr men
of eltt er Ws and tarty Wneteesr he undertook no di I with
grace arid ease, and, cove all, with a hemline.s a rich proved
vain ow'. An a platform • rarely Orel,
sr aeesdote Irmo his lips gained a point which lie author
couid DA rive it. He indeed, in its test sense, a
man)-sided ' man; and into hi. Mt, !Bally Career.
S;. •rs p •sk, w• re sermiled together. Fie was In, efattgable
1,. work. awl n, vet knew what It as. to be Whined, scarcely
what it ~shi rano mt. In the osnogement of two very
imp .runt dioceses ho chewed adminintreTve ability. and AU
lellerqy 01 p. r.on &racier which does mit often display
Itself on the apiscopal bench.
"Bin, was an eloquence which never failed. It eh. ne
equally in ids immoral charges, ii. his ounfirmatiqn addrerse.,
whether to the Eton coy. or to the boys and girls of country
Tillage schools, and in those spirlasfirrlng appeals which ha

would deliver In Cuddeadou Chapel to the candidates for
holy or,hrs. Regarded as a Parliamentary orator, there WU
much oft uth in the observation Of. etatearnyn now Orawita-d
Met, although the Ide Lord Li, roy wa /wad prineepi
g.nong d.htfare, and the late Lord Ellenho,on4ll prob toy
the ro it be.t debater in the 11,use or Lode, stilt nt Para n
mentor) eloquence no on. so nearly approached either V. 3
one or the other as MI p V. IP enforce.'

'Although he we, not the author of any learned and
labor' us wore, and perhaps MIA rot 31 deep • the, logien
as hie brother Hobert or many of his EAscopal brethren,
yet his nano, will he remembered as the au,bor of •
Iludory of the Epecopal Church in America, and of two or
thy.., chat m cc renal .4 alb worn., the 11,04 noon'sr of
w, loiter. Agathos and The Rocky Island Ile was los., the
aithor of BUM' r us Charm. ' Arch•m... mod and Eds•mpal,
• °cool not and other d.rmons, Sermons Preached before
the Queen, SerMollB Preached at Oxford. etc It is web
1D.1,1011 also t..a., joiiill, wtt, his or. her /toren be gave
to the world the Life and Cot-re pondence ri his father In
five Waco volumes— a work widen wild have been more
valuate had Its authors been less filial and consequently
more critical in the work of selection."