The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-26 00:00:00

DEAN MILMAN.

We yesterday announced the death of the Very
Rev. Henry Hart Milman, Dean of St. Paul's. This
distinguished divine was born in London, February 10,
1791, and he was therefore at the time of his death in
his 78th year. He was the youngest son of Sir Francis
Milman, Bart., physician to George 111., and was edu-
cated at Dr. Burney's aeademy at Greenwich, at
Eton, and at Brasenose College, Oxford. He
graduated B.A. at Easter 1813, and was one of the
five first-class men in the classical school. He
took his M.A. and B.D. degrees in 1816, and gra-
duated D.D. in 1849, when appointed to the deanery
of St. P9,urs. In 1816 he was ordained deacon by the
Bishop of London, and in the same year priest by the
Bishop of Oxford. Soon after his ordination, in
1817, being then but 26 years of age, be was pre-
sented to the vicarage of St. Mary's, Reading.
which he held for eighteen years. In 1821 he was
appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford, having been
assisted to that post, no doubt, by his successful
prize poem, which he wrote in 1813, on Alexander
visiting the tomb of Achilles, and which obtained for
him the Chancellor's Latin verse prize. He held the
professorship till 1831. In 1827 he was appointed Bampton,
Lecturer. Some years before this he had become known
as an author. His first work, we believe, was "Fazio," a,
tragedy acted with some success at Covent Garden, and
which is still occasionally produced. On its first
appearance Miss O'Neill (since Lady Becher) sustained
the heroine. This play has been translated into French.
In 1818 appeared " Samor," a heroic poem in twelve
books, little read now, but praised by the Quarterly
Review as the most extraordinary work of the
age. This was followed, in 1820, by the
" Fall of Jerusalem," and later by "Anne Boleyn,"
" The Martyr of Antioch," and " Balthazar." Selections
from these works were subsequently republished in two
volumes in 1829. But it was not only to poetry that
Mr. Milman gave his pen. He was to obtain a
more lasting reputation as a prose writer. In
1829 Murray published his " History of the Jews," in
three volumes. Eleven years later appeared the "History
of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition
of Paganism in the Roman Empire," a work of three
volumes. His opus magnum, however, was yet to come.
It was his " History of Latin Christianity," in six vols.,
which appeared in 1853-55. He wrote also a " Life of
Horace," and he brought out an admirably-annotated
edition of Gibbons's " Decline and Fall." Such a
man as this, so accomplished and so profound, so
ripe a scholar, and so liberal a theologian, was just
the man for the learned ease of a deanery. Therefore,
when Bishop Copleston, who held the deanery of St.
Paul's, together with the bishopric of Llandaff, died,
the first appointment was conferred by Lord John
Russell upon Mr. Milman, albeit, he was a frequent
contributor to the Tory Quarterly Review. Since then Dean
Milman has always been on the side of Liberal theology,
and became one of the most celebrated and respected
leaders of the Broad Church School. At the time
of his death he was engaged on a " History of
St. Paul's Cathedral," a work which would, no doubt,
have borne comparison with the "History of Westminster
Abbey," by its dean, the accomplished Dr. Stanley. Dean
Milman's brother was a distinguished officer, who served
in the Peninsular war, and was seriously wounded at
Talaveira. His nephew has recently been appointed to the
Bishopric of Calcutta. The deanery of St. Paul's, which
now falls into the hands of Mr. Disraeli, is wortli £2,000
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ROYAL SOUVENIRS.—By order of the Prince%
Royal of Italy-, says the Persercranza of Milan, each of
the 200 gentlemen who took part in the tournament on
the occasion of his marriage has received a jewelled orna-
ment as appendage to a watch. These gifts bear the
initials of the august pair in brilliants, and are of fine
Florentine manufacture. Photograph portraits of Prince
Humbert and the Princess Marguerita accompanied each
present.

The two curates of a well-known Ritualistic
church in Soho were received into the Catholic Church on
Sunday last, at the Oratory, Brompton. Although the
incumbent of the church in which these gentlemen were
curates belong to the very highest of the Ritualistic
school, be is one of the bitterest opponents of individual
secession from the English Church. The conversion of
his two curates to the Catholic faith has caused a very
great sensation amongst the members of the congregation,
and it is supposed that many amongst the,. jeittex
follow their exalcuDlein—irealub9kkri,