The herald., 1896-10-12
STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY
The Primate of England Dead
at Hawarden
HE DIED LIKE A SOLDIER
After q Long Life Of Faithful and Va!u.
able Service
The Archbishop Of Canterbury Dies
While in Attendance Upon Church
Service-A Brief Obituary.
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE archbishop of
Canterbury was seized with apoplexy
after the service commenced at Hawar-
den church this morning. He was car
ried to the rectory where he died at 11:3
o'clock.
The Rev. Archibald Farrar, dean Of
Canterbury, received a telegram from
Stephen Gladstone, the rector of Hawar-
den church, stating the archbishop of
Canterbury passed away peacefully and
suddenly at 11:15 o'clock. He had at
tended the holy communion. Dean Far
rar, in preaching in the cathedral this
evening, referred to his forty-five years
intimacy with the deceased prelate.
The archbishop of Canterbury arrived
at Hawarden on Saturday evening on his
return from visit in the north of Ire
land. He appeared then to be in robust
health and expressed to Mrs. Gladstone
his great qualification over his Irish
tour He arose early on Sunday and at
tended the early communion with his
wife and others. The weather was bit
terly cold and Mr. Gladstone did not at
tend the church, but at 10 o'clock the
Gladstone, Mrs. Gladstone, Mrs. Drew
and Dorothy Drew went to the morning
service. The whole party occupied the
Gladstone pew near the chancel.
Directly the service began and while
the rector, Rev. Stephen Gladstone, was
reading the absolution, Archbishop Ben
son, who was kneeling, was seen to
twitch in the arm for a few minutes and
then he collapsed altogether.
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bishop had had dangerous seizure,
called to the clerk and others, who car
ried him to the library. Doctors were
hastily summoned. The stricken pre-
late was gasping painfully for breath.
Applications of ether and other means
to induce artificial respiration were re-
sorted to. Mr.. Gladstone, the rector,
who had left the church when the arch
bishop was carried out, returned and an
nounced the illness to the congregation,
who were waiting in painful suspense.
He asked for their prayers. All efforts
to rally the distinguished patient proved
vain and he died in q few minutes.
Henry Gladstone whispered the news
to- the rector, who announced the arch
bishops death, the news causing pro-
found sensation among the worshipers
in the church. The hymn Forever
With the Lord" was sung and the dead
march was played, all present standing
affected.
Mrs. Gladstone conveyed the sad news
to her husband, who was greatly shock
ed and distressed. Afterwards, remark
ing on the event, Mr.. Gladstone said:
He died like a soldier
The official medical announcement to
the coroner stated it was due to apo
plexy. The medical attendants concur
in the opinion that heart failure caused
the death but that this was directly due
to the seizure.
Mrs. Benson was present at the time
of her husbands death and she after
wards went to HaWarden castle. The
bells were tolled and references were
made to the death of the prmate of all
England in many of the churches in the
kingdom tonight.
The Most Rev. Edward White Benson,
D. D., archbishop of Canterbury, pri-
mate of all England and metropolitan,
Birmingham Heath and formerly of
York, was born near Birmingham in
1929 He was educated at King Ed
wards school. Birmingham, and at
Trinity college, Cambridge, of which he
was successfully scholar and fellow,and
where he graduated b. A. in 1852, as
a first class in classical honors and
senior chancellors' medallist, obtaining
also place of a senior optime in the
mathematical tripos. He was gradu-
ated NJ. A. in 1855, B. D. in 1862, and d. d.
in 1865; honorable D. c. l.. (Oxford),
1884. He was for some years one of the
masters in Rugby school, and he held
the head mastership of Wellington COL
lege from it's first opening in 1859 down
to 1872. For several years he was eX-
aminipg chaplain to the late bishop of
Lincoln, by whom he was appointed
chancellor and canon residentary of
Lincoln, having been a prebendary of
the same cathedral for three years pre-
vious. He was at different times select
preacher to the University of Cambridge
and to the University Of Oxford, hon.
orable chaplain to the queen in 1873 and
chaplain in ordinary, 1S76-77. In De-
cember, 1876. he was nominated by the
crown, on the recommendation of the
earl of Beaconsfield to the newly re-
stored bishopric of Truro, and was con-
secrated in St. Pauls cathedral April
25, 1877. During his occupation of the
see he began building a new cathedral
of Truro, of which the outward shell
has cost 91O0,00O, much of that sum
having been gathered through the ener-
gy Of the bishop. In December 1882,
DR.. Benson was appointed by the crown,
on Mr.. Gladstone's recommendation. to
the archbishopric of Canterbury in sue
cession to DR.. Tair.
DIR. Benson has published various re-
fcio,1S works