The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-12
EPISCOPAL PRIVATE DEAD
ARCHBIsHOP or CANTERBURY Ex- PIRES SUDDENLY IN CHURCH.

Who Have Held the Exalted Station
 Was Bishop of MT. Gladstone.
 London, Oct. 1.-The Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and metropolitan, Right Hon. Rev. Ed ward White Benson, D. D., and privy councillor, died suddenly to-day while attending divine service in the church at Hawarden. The archbishop was the bishop of MT. Gladstone, through whom ne was appointed to the archbishopric ef Canterbury, and, in company with the Gladstone family, went to the Ha- warden church this morning. After the service had commenced a commo- tion was noticed in the Gladstone pew, and immediately thereafter church at- tendants were seen removing the arch bishop, who, 1t was supposed, was suf-
 sring from a fit. He was taken to the rectory and medical assistance was hastily summoned. The doctors work ed over him in vain, and at 11:45 o'clock he died The physicians state that death was caused by apoplexy. Arch bishop Benson was sixty-seven years of age.
 Archbishop Benson was born near Birmingham in 1929. He was educated at King Edwards s school, Birmingham, and at Trinity college Cambridge, of which he was successively scholar and fellow, and where he graduated B. A. in 1852 as first-class in classical hon. ors and senior chancellor's medallist, obtaining also the place of a senior op- time in the mathematical tripos. He graduated M A. in 1855, B. D. in 1862, and D. D. in 1867, Hon. D. c. l.. COX ford) in 1884. He was for some years one of the masters in Rugby school, and he held the headmastership of Well lington college from its first opening in 1898 down to 1872.
 For several years he was examining chaplain to the late Bishop of Lincoln, by whom he was appointed chancellor and canon residentiary of Lincoln, hav- ing been a prebendary of the same ca- thedral for three years previous. He was select preacher to the University of Cambridge (1864, 1871, 1875, 1876, 1879 and 1S82) and to the University of OX- ford (1S75-76), honorable chaplain to the queen in 1873 and chaplain in ordinary in 1875-77 In December 1876, he was nominated by the crown, on recommen- dation of Earl Beaconsfeld, to the re- stored bishopric of Truro, and was con- secrated in St. Pauls cathedral April 25 1S77 The diocese, which was taken out of the diocese of Exeter, consists Of the county of Cornwall the isle of Scil- ly and five parishes of Devonshire, con- stituting the old archdeaconry of Corn wall. with the church of St Mary, Tru- re. as a cathedral. During his occupa- tion of the see he began the building of a new cathedral at Truro, of which the outward shell has cost over e10O,- 900, much of that sum having been gathered through the energy of the bishop. In December, 1882, Dr. Benson was appointed by the crown, on MT. Gladstone's recommendation, to the archbishopric of Canterbury, in success sion to Dr. Tait
 Dr. Benson had published "A Memo rial Sermon" preached after the deatn of pr. Lee, first bishop of Manchester, in 1870; Work, Friendship, Worshlp' being three sermons preached before the University of Cambridge in lsfl; "Boy Life; It's Trial, Its Strength, Its Fullness. Sundays in Wellington Col lege." Lond. Svo., 1874; Single Heart, /" 1877; 'The Cathedral; Its Necessary Place in the Life and Work of the Church" 1879; 'The Seven Gifts" 1885; "Christ and His Times" 1889; Living Theology" 1891; and Fishers of Men, 1898.
 Dr. Benson married, in 1859, Mary, daughter of the late Rev. William Sedgwick of Skipton, Yorkshire. The annual value of the see of Canterbury is 15O0O and the archbishop Is the pa- tron of 19S livings.
 Rev Stephen Gladstone, rector of the church, continued the service until he received a message that the archblsh- op was dead He then closed the ser vice with prayer for the dead from the burial service.
 As the congregation were leaving the church the organist played dead march and muffled peal was rung on the bells. The body is now lying in the 'ectory.
 MT. Gladstone was not present at the church, the weather being severe and caused him to remain at home. He was greatly distressed when informed of the death of the archbishop. They had been close friends for long time.
 The death was announced in many churches in London and the provinces at lthe evening services and much re- gr4t was expressed everywhere. Arch bishop Benson was esteemed by all sects for his moderation and broad rflindedness. The death of the arch bishop was announced at St. Paurs, London, at the afternoon service. The sad news quickly spread and this eve ming there was a great assemblage at the cathedral. The preacher highly eulogized the dead archbishop for his | services to the Established church for his personal uprightness of character and lovable disposition. After the ser vice the organist played the Dead March" the congregation standing as the solemn strains filled the edif1ce. The great bell of the cathedral was tolled in memory of the dead.
 Dean Farrar paid an impressive | tribute to the deceased archbishop in Canterbury Cathedral. He said, among other things, that of Archbishop Ben sons more than ninety predecessors : none was endowed with more graceful learning, more charming geniality or 1 holier or truer wisdom.
 The archbishop and his wife arrived at Hawarden Castle, MT Gladstone's s