Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-07-21
Death of Dean Stanley.

The death of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley,
truly great men of the age. No religions
leader and promoter of human progress ex-
ercsed a greater influence or will be more
deeply mourned wherever the English tongue
ticulars of his last illness. A chill upon the
9TH instant seems to have brought on the fatal
attack. He died Monday ev'g at the Deanerv
of Westminster. The Archbishop of Can
terbury reached his bedside just in time to
speak few words to the dying Dean. before
he became unconscious. Canons Farrar and
Jones, the Deans sister and several men,
bers of his household were present at the
deathbed For some time before the final
moment he was seRi-unconscious.
Dean Stanley was the son of Bishop Ed
ward Stanley. He was born at Alderley
Cheshire, December IL. 1915. He was edu-
Gated at Rugby, where he was a favorite stu
dent of DIR. Thomas Arnold in 1929 1884.
His studies were continued at Baliol College,
Oxford, where he won numerous honors
He obtained the Latin prize essay in 1889,
and the English essay and theological prizes
in 1910. He graduated at University Col
lege in 1888, and was for some years fellow
tutor at that institution. He early affiliated
himself with the Broad Church party of the
Church Of England. His. superior abilities
were early recognized in successive ap-
pointments as select preacher to Oxford
University. ls45-lsiG; Secretary to the
University Commission, ls5O-IS52 Canon of
Canterbury, ls5l-lsjs; Regius Professor of
Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, 1856 1864 ;
Canon of Christ Church. 1858 1864,
The fruits Of his tour in Egypt and Pales-
tine in 1852 and 'JJ3 are known to all familiar
with the name of Dean Stanley. He became
Chaplain to Prince Albert in 1854. to DR.
TAFT, Bishop Of London, 1857. and TO Queen
Victoria and the Prince of Wales in 1862. A
year later he declined the Archbishopric of
Dublin, and Jan. 9, 1864. he was installed
Dean of Westminster. Seven years ago he
was elected Lord Rector of the University Of
St. Andrews. He was prominent as a defend
er of free thought in the Church Of England
in the controversies connected with the cele-
brated essays and reviews in 1861. As an
active promoter Of charitable, missionary and
educational enterprises, and Of biblical and
| aquarian and Of scientific researches, all the
world knows him. while he has for years been
the acknowledged representative of the pro-
gressive school of British theology
In December, 1862, he married Lady Au-
gusta Bruce, daughter Of the late Earl of FL
gin, and an intimate friend Of the Queen. The
death of his wife in February, 1876, will be
remembered as occasionng extraordinary
manifestations of regard for her memory and
of sympathy with Dean Stanley, both in this
country and in England. After the publication
during his college life in 1897, of his Newdi-
gate prize poem, The Gypsies," his first
work was 1.-THE Life and Correspondence of
Thomas Arnold, d. d." This publication
attracted universal attention, and won for
him high place among the literary men Of
the day. Among his subsequent productions
were ''Sermons and ESSAYS on the Apostolic
Age" Is47), The Epistles Of st. Paul to
the Corinthians, with Critical Notes and
Dissertations Os55). ''Sinai and Palestine
in Connection With Their History" 1856.
'.Sermons Preached Before the Prince Of
| Wales during his Tour in the East" ClS63) /,