The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17
In G%LADsTONE'S PEW
The Archbishop of Canterbury
Stricken with Apoplexy
And Expires In the Church Rectory-Tho
Annual Value ofthe See of Canterbury
Is $4,000, and the Archbishop WAS
the Patron OF 195 Liyings.

LONDON, Oct. 12.-The archbishop OF
Canterbury, primate of all England
and metropolitan, the Ri. Hon. and
Most Rev. Edward White Benson, d.
D., and privy councillor, died sud
denly yesterday while attending di-
vine service in the church at Ha-
warden. The archbishop was the
guest of Mr.. Gladstone, through whom
he was appointed to the archbishoprics
of Canterbury, and, in company with
the Gladstone family, went to the
Hawarden church yesterday morning.
After the service had commenced a
commotion was noticed in the Glad
stone pew and Immediately there
after church attendants were seen re-
moving the archbishop who, it was
supposed, was suffering from a fit.
He was taken to the rectory, and med
icaI assistance was hastily summoned.
The doctors worked over him in vain,
and at 1l:45 o'clock he died. The
physicians state that death was caused
by apoplexy.
Archbishop Benson was CT years of
age.
Ri. Hon. and Most Rev. Edward
White Benson. ID. D., primate of all
England and metropolitan, was born
near birmingham in 1s29. He was ed
ucated at King Edwards school, Bir-
mingham, and at Trinity college,
Cambridge, of which he was success
lively scholar and fellow, and where he
graduated L. a. in 1852. He gradu-
ated NJ. A. in 1855; Il. D.. in 1862 and ID.
d. in 1867; Hon. d. C. L. Oxford 1854.
He was for some years one of the
masters in Rugby school, and held the
misunderstanding of Wellington col
lege from its first opening in 1853
down to 1872. Among many dignities
he attained were honorable chaplain
to the queen, 1873, and chaplain in or
binary, Is75-77. Ia December, 1876, he
was nominated to h newly restored
bishopric of Truro, and was consecra-
ted in st. Paul's cathedral, April "a, 1877.
During his occupation of the see he
began the building of a new cathedral
at Truro of which the outward shell
has cost over 9l0O,OOO, much of that
sum having been gathered through
the energy of the bishop. In Decen.-
Der, 1852, DR.. Benson was appointed
by the crown, ON MIR. Gladstone's rec
nFrnn m nTNlnf inn IN Tho nrnI a rnt, -
Canterbury, in succession to DIR. TAFT
DIR. Benson has published sermons and
other works.
Mr.. Benson married, in 1859, Mary,
daughter of the late Rev. William
Sedgwick, of Skipton, Yorkshire.
The annual value of the see of Can
terbury is S75, 900, and the archbishop
is the patron of 1875 livIngs. In addi-
ton to his archiepiscopal residence at
Lambeth palace, he had d seat at Ad-
dington park, Croydon, Surrey.
The archbishop and his wife arrived
at Hawarden castle, Mr.. Gladstone's
residence, Saturday evening, from the
north of Ireland, where they had been
visiting. The archbishop appeared to
be i'll the best of health. He attended
communion at the Hawarden church
at eight o'clock yesterday morning
and then breakfasted with Mr.. Glad
stone and family. Later lie attended
the morning service. The ''confes-
ion" was proceeding when he fell for
ward. The church attendants re-
moved the archbishop to the rectory as
quickly as possible. Rev. Stephen
Gladstone, the rector of the church,
continued the service until he received
Il message that the archbishop was
dead. He then closed with the prayer
for the dead from the burial service.
AS the congregation left the church
the organist played n dead march, and
a mufied peal was rung on the bells.
Mr.. Gladstone was not at the church,
the weather preventing. He was
greatly distressed at the death of the
archbishop. They had been close
friends for a long time.
Archbishop Benson was esteemed by
all sections for his moderation and
observation-disclosures. His death was an
nounced at St. Paul's, London, at the
afternoon service. The news quickly
spread and last evening there was d
great assemblage at the cathedral.
The preacher highly eulogized the dead
archbishop for his services to the
church, his personal uprightness of
character and lovable disposition. At
ter the service" the organist played
the Dead March," the congregation
standing as the solemn strains filled
the editice, the great bell of the cathe-
dral meanwhile being tolled in MEM
DRY of the dead.
Dean Farrar paid an impressive
tribute to the deceased archbishop in
Canterbury cathedral.
Two Men Killed In "a Railway Collision.
TOLEDO, o., Oct. 12.-Near Fremont,
o., yesterday morning a west-bound