The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

Death of the Archbishop of Dublin.

A telegraphic despatch from Ireland informs us
of the death of the Archbishop of Dublin, which
occurred yesterday at twelve o'clock. His grace
had been afflicted for some time with an ulcer in
the leg, and for many weeks has been in a most pre-
carious condition. Till recently he suffered greatly,
but his mind was to the last as vigorous and clear
as ever. Those who ministered to him in his ill-
ness bear witness to his patience and his unrepin.
ing submission to the Divine pleasure. The near
approach of death would seem to have made Richard
W hately, the dry logician, the sarcastic controver-
sialist, more tender, more loving, more spiritual;
and the genuine greatness of his character was never
so conspicuous as at that awful time which neither
rank nor intellect can avert or postpone.
Archbishop Whately has long been known to the
world not only as a professional theologian, but as
the most acute thinker and the most accurate
reasoner of the age. After leading intellectual
society in Oxford, he has for the last 30 years led
the intellectual society of the Irish capital. His
political influence was very great. As a privy
councillor, and, in the absence of the viceroy, one
of the lords justices of Ireland, he was mixed up
with the politics of successive Administrations;
but never was his advice given factiously, or from
party motives, to either Whig or Tory Lord
Lieutenant ; in fact, throughout his life he kept
himself entirely free from political partisanship,
and no one could ever tell whether he was a Whig
or a Tory, for he voted not with a party but as his
conscience dictated. American scholars gave him
equal rank with Butler, Watson, and Paley, ene
writer going so far as to say that he is the only
Anglican bishop whose name will live. Exaggerated
as this opinion may seem, no one can hesitate to
admit that Dr. Whately has established a great
school of liberal thought, that his teaching and his
works have affected more than one generation of
the most intellectual students at Oxford and in
Dublin; and for this rare and precious influence
his name deserves to be remembered.

The Right Hon. and Most Rev. Richard Whately,
D.D., Lord Archbishop of Dublin, and Glendalough.
and Bishop of Kildare, Chancellor of the Order of
St. Patrick, and a Privy Councillor in Ireland, was
the fourth son of the Rev. Joseph Whately, D.D.,
of Nonsuch Park, Surrey, a prebendary of Bristol,
by the daughter of Mr. William Plumer, and was
born in Cavendish-square on the Ist of February,
1787.

His grace was 59th Archbishop of Dublin, and
55th Bishop of Glendalough, and succeeded as 89th
Bishop of Kildare in 1846 (that see having been
prospectively united to Dublin under the Church
Temporalities Act), on the death of Dr. Charles
Lindsay. He was visitor of Trinity College, Dub-
lin; Prebendary ex officio of Cullen in St. Patrick's
Cathedral; Vice-President of the Royal Irish
Academy, and Chancellor of the Order of St.
Patrick.

The Archbishop married in 1821, on quitting
Oxford, for the first time, Mary, daughter of Mr.
W. Pope. One of his sons is the Ven. Edward
Whately, Archdeacon of Glendalough, Chancellor
of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Vicar of Bray. Mrs.
Whately, wife of his grace, died 25th April, 1860.
The province of Dublin includes the five dioceses
of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, Limerick, Ardfert
and Aghadoe, Cork, Cloy ne and Ross, Cashel,
Waterford, and Emly, and Killaloe, Kilfenora,
Clonfert, and Kilmacduagh. The diocese itself is
made up of the counties of Dublin, Kildare, and
Wicklow, with some part of Wexford, Queen's
county, and King's county. The annual income
attached to the archbishopric is £B,OOO. Nothing,
of course, is known as to the future occupant of
this distinguished office, bat rumour has for some
time indicated Dr. Fitzgerald, Bishop of Killaloe,
the most distinguished of Archbishop Whately's
proteges, as his grace's probable successor in St.
Patrick's chair.