New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-05-06
ARCHBISHOP MAGEE DEAD.
HIS BRILLIANT CAREER AS A PREACHER.
MS RECENT TRANSFER FROM THE BIsHoPmo
OF PETERBOROUGH TO THE ARCH
BIsHoPRIc OF YORK.

OF PETERBOROUGH TO THE ARCH
BIsuoPRIc OF YORK.
London. May 5.-The Most Rev. William Conner
Magee. d. D., D. C. L.. Archbishop OF YORK anu
Primate Of England, is dead. Death was caaSed ny
influenza.
DR.. Magee was born at Cork on December ~
1891. ana was the son of the Rev. john Mseee,
sometime Vicar OF ST. Peters Drosheda, lreii'u' -
grandson OF william Magce Archbishop VI 49, 80,
ns22-,3l) lie was educated at knAenns No ,,,
and Trinity College, Dublin, taking oiS'iie"
degree at Trinity IN 1912 He was oToaihe" SUI. ..
leaving college and was for time cura'e VI ss
nrhouos,s DubIin In 1s4s he was appointed oui"'0
~ 81 sayjour's Bath, and in lsoo he VIC"
made Joint incumbent Of ST. saviours. La'er Ho
minister of OctagOn Chapel, Batn' anu honoi"s =,
M Wells Cathedral. In 1850 no Oec"nle .ii s,
Quebec Chapel London. ard preceh.oi Va O's -
In 1asl rector Of Ennskillen. In 1864 ne was h''ue
~. 90 cor,, and in 1866 Dean Of the Chapel Royal
Dh,, Tn 1863 he was consecrated as the twenty
-xtb nishop Of Peterborough upon the rccommehuao"
~ Lord Reaconsfeld then Mr. Dlsraeip Az |'"e00
had by this time gained high reputation as q pi'
notably by a sermon preached before the Oi'iV - -,
oress at Dublin In 1868, and as conIroVersian'v ~
combating the Rev. DIR. F. d. Maurice III nv -
nightly Review and the Lberationists in lectures anu
as-aa %. Instance one on "The Voluntary sys-
,or, ana the Established Church. In the House Vi
Iords DR. Magee opposed the Disestablshment OIL 1ie
Irish Church in speech Of glowing eloque"0es ""u
scarcely less scathing was his attack upon 'ne inv
eating Iiouors bill (Bruces BID OF le'2' iie woo
in favor OF reform of the system OF lay patrohese'
he nres,ded over the Church Congress In 1851 rive
wears later his health was extremely precanous'
fortunately he recovered In January. 1871, nc De-
cana Archbishop OF York and Primate OF England
succeeding the late DR.. Thomson. lie recelveu MS
degrees Of VI. A. and B. d. from Trinity Conesc III
1854 and the degree of d. ID. in 1852 oAtoru mauc
him a ID. c. l.. in 1870. In 1881 ne marrieo ammo
Nisb,tt. second daughter of the Rev. Charles smith,
rector of Arklow, Ireland HIS "ie' unee Bulls "N'
three daughters survive him.
A writer in "Temple Bar" in 1884 SAID OF Ut.
Magee: canon IAddon and the Bishop OF felerporous
stand out as unquestonably the two nrse preachers
The Established Church. Inc bisnop VI
Peterborough has not often been heard In Lohooh Vi
late years. but whenever he is advertised 10 preao.
cYowds fock TO hear him. He need not be coihpaied
with Liddon for the personal appearance style ana
onnions of the two are quite Inherent bu''
,rbcreas the Canon sometimes breaches ABOVE tne ui
derstanding of dull men, the Bishops eloquence ho
soars much above earth. II Is rousihe ei"Iu0"o'
spirited combatve often sarcastic. ana Always VI
rected AGAINST some evil which is preoccupying pup
lie attention at the time being Dr. Masee Is ~.
merely a hster, but aggressive enemy Oh huilDue'
olothe itself in what garb it may. With MS aih'eu
celtic features long Lip. large mouth, eherseu
nose and shaggy eyebrows, with MS gi'lhncss ouu
broad smile which breaks up the Whoie oi ih' i"'N
concal lines he has all the look OF humorls" Inv
olance all round which he takes at his congregation
whom he hns cot into the pulpit is that OF MASTER
HE first words arrest attention. and If some uDluchy
man drops n book during his exordium that man VIII
stare hard at the pulpit and pretend to have no con
nection with the book lest his lordshps eyes slS
sndSenv he turned upon him like two merry points VI
Interrogation. Presently, when lne DsiloP ,e ston
his work his arms hit out from the sonoer ae Win
rods vranped I'm lawn down come MS large haius mt
Great SLABS on his book or cushion, ana nc - Ps ~
f,o in church where the beadle has not hesuu VI o
little ways and has not been careful W s wake dne
sowderin9 for the heads of the people IN inc Dew po
heath The Bishop OF Peterborough once salu 's S
lronld rather see England free than SOBER, Will
amounted 10 declaring that he would rather nc Uu
mered emnaion for themselves than have 1t removed
from their way by legislation which might DO Sppros
sive M sober people. His words, OF course, uIoM d
howl from TEMPERANCE associations, but the INC
al manllness Is the head and front OF Dr. MAJ
seacb;ng and he has never swerved from the position
nat N men cannot be made sober by their own enors
md the announcements Of their friends the pohoSod
will not make them Plaln-spoken anu no%e,
d,scrssinp ali questions with easy arguments never
stooninr To subtlees clear in his delivery, nappy III
bis choice of words, he Keeps MS hessIels -
Ogmius that god Of eoquence among nie t 80 bis
used to be represented WITH chaihs ho"tis Schts
month on occasions he rises TO the mgnesu n5n'
M oratory but never loses sight OF ms
wbo have always been carried along py MN oiVT III
fbe successive degrees of his own enthusiasm; liz
bishop OF Peterborough's renown as ar @ ha
ri his hest In the House of Lords last SESSION wel
he said that there was no chance OF inc oIVH o ne
reformAi for there were too many persons IN tne
political world interested in seeing lu5 aouses IT, Won
order that these might dscred the Church inc Noa
conformsts had been called the backbone OF Ie %
Marty and the Liberals dared not deal fairly py INC
Church for fear Of irritating their great BACKBONE