The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-10-24
Death of Bishop Whittinptam.

The Right Rev. William Robinson Whit
tingham, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
Maryland, died at Orange, N. j., on the morn
ing of the 18th instant, at the age of "a years.
He was buried with his kindred, at Orange
Bishop Whittingham's health had been feeble
for many years, and in 1870 an Assistant
Bishop, Rev. William Pinkney, d. D., was
elected to relieve him of the more arduous
work of the diocese. Bishop Nottingham
was man of great learning, of the most fer
vent picty and as theologian his fame was
not confined to his native country, but was
recognized among scholars in every Christian
land. His life was pure and blameless and his
kindness to the poor, and especially to poor
clcrgymen, was not the least of his good
qualities. He possessed strong convictions
and maintained them with great firmncss.-
AS II preacher he was eloquent, and words of
wisdom came from his lips as from a pure
unfailing fountain.
The Protestant Episcopal Church and the
Christian world in general has suffered
great loss in the death of Bishop Whiting
ham. The following condensed sketch of his
life, written by the Bishops old and intimate
friend, Rev. VIM. f. Brand, of this county, is
taken from J0hnS0n'S Cyclopacla
WHITTINGHAM (William Robinson born of de-
vout English parents in New York City Dec. I'd,
1905. His father while actively engaged in bust
ness, found time for the pursuits of n scholar
His mother, a woman of strong mind, with q view
to educating her son, made herself, under the in
structon of her husband, proficient in the learned
languages; such were her attachments that she at
one time gave lessons in Hebrew to theological
students. The young Nottingham, who at very
early age showed that aptitude for learning and
devotion TO study which has characterized him,
had no other instructor until he became student
at the General Theological Seminary. Whatever
the benefits of such home-training, II may yet be
doubted whether it be the best for one who is to
be the Guide an .uler of other men. He was
graduated q year in advance of the canonical age
for ordination. When made deacon by Bishop
Hobart, he was sent as a missionary to Orange, N.
j., and the adjoining villages, and within the year
was advanced to the priesthood. His zeal for
parochial work was as intense us had been his an
plication rs student. In 1895 he was nominated
70 tne OF occoslastlca history in the
General Theological Seminary by Mr.: Stuyvesant
who had lately endowed the chair While engaged
in labors so congenia he was dn 1910 chosen bishop
of Maryland. Ills success us professor had been
so marked, and his influence over the future
teachers of the Church great, that many regret
ted his abandoning this work even for that to
which he was called. lie was elected after warm
and long continued party contests. 1t cannot be
pretended that party spirit ceased on his becoming
advanced in all that belongs TO Church improve
mcnt, and his personal influence with both clergy
and laity could be rightly described only in terms
OF seeming cXaggeration This popularity he with
pain sacrificed to Il great extent, during the
troubles which followed secession, for his sense
of duty separated him from the sympathies of the
larger number of his people; but by this very
cause for regret he was the better enabled, after
the close of the war, to prevent obstacles to the
return To unity in the Church. by the request of
the House OF Bishops, and as Observation-Disclosures
nc attended the Bonn conference of the Old Cath
olics in Sept, 1872. While yet student he joint
ly with DR.. Turner translated and prepared for
the press Jahn's HfIOddCfiOn and he has from Time
to time edited VariOus Church works hut he has
given to the world but little of his own. When
seeking To influence men for their good il seems
not to have occurred To him that he could best do
this by drawing ON his own stores: to "cstccm
others better than himself" belongs to his nature
The esteem in which he il held by others cannot
cation of the province of Canterbury during the
the current year by the bishop of Iichncd
(Selwyn0 Al the forthcoming meeting of bishops
Of the Anglican communion, If il be said that the
whole of the Anglican bishops of the world could
add very little to the learning that is to he found
among the English bishops, ] quite admit il ;
but there is one man in the American Church
who, believe, could take his part with credit and
that is Bishop Nottingham, of Maryland"-
guardian, Feb, 1866 w. +. BRAND.
Bishop Whittingham's funeral took place
at Orange on Tuesday. Bishop Pinkncy and
fourteen other bishops with large delegation
of clergymcn and laymen from Maryland
were present.