The age-herald., 1901-03-22
A BISHOPS LOVE STORY.
How Queen Alexandra Helped the
 PreIate of London Win a Girl.

From the New York Journal.
 London-Eighteen months ago Canon Ingram was probably the most miserable by that celebrated beauty, Lady Ulrica Duncombe, and was firmly convinced that not only his happiness but likewise his prospects were shattered beyond repair.
 As the husband of the lovely daughter of the proud old Earl of Fayersham, and through her allied to many of the grand est houses of the British aristocracy, he was virtually assured of the highest ec- clesiastical preferment, whereas, without her. he seemed doomed to spend the re- mainder of his life in his squalid parish, situated In the most impoverished and crime infested district of the East End of London, content with the altogether barren honors of the position of suffragan to the bishop of London and the position of suffragan bishop not only carries with 1t no increase of pay and but little in- crease of prestige, but has seemed in the past for some reason or another to con stitute bar to all further advancement in the church. pr. Ingram was without private fortune of no particular social position.
 Today he is, to the astonishment of
 
 exandra and Lady Ulrica, suddenly pro noted to the proud position of Lord Bishop of London, which carries with it not only a seat in the House of Lords, a salary of 900 year, a great furnish ed town mansion in St. James square and a palatial country seat standing In the midst of a large private park at Full ham. but likewise the virtual certainty of eventual succession to the Archbishop of Canterbury and to the primacy of the Church of England.
 Nor does this constitute the sum total of his good fortune. For 1t Is understood that the mistress of his establishment at the palace of Putnam, and at his house in St. James square, will be no other than his ex-fiancee, Lady Ulrica Dun combe The whole story Is rather pret- ty romance which reflects no little cred it upon the kindheartedness of King Ed ward and his Queen.
 It seems that when Lady Ulrica tilted Dr. Ingram, who is only A years old and the youngest prelate who has ever been appointed to the bishopric of London. she yielded to the overwhelming pressure of her parents, of her brother and sisters, and of her relatives who described her projected union as a mesallinace.
 For few weeks after breaking off the match she threw herself into the very vortex of society, but being a girl of strong individualism and of more than or dinary intellect she soon became dis gusted with its hallowness, and began to feel she had made a mistake in jilting Dr. Ingram, so infinitely more interesting sympathetic than the people by whom she was surrounded
 Moreover, she convinced herself that, in spite of all that had taken place, she lov- ed pr. Ingram ieXandra then only Princess of Wales, who had known her almost from childhood, won the girls confidence and, having ascertained that Dr. Ingram was still as devoted as ever to Lady Ulrica, quietly set to work to bring about the consent of Lord and Lady Faversham's family to the match
 But 1t was without success The old earl Is one of the most proud and arrogant nobles in England, and would not hear of his daughter marrying a relatively un- known and obscure parson. Queen Alex andra enlisted the sympathies of her hus- band, and the King determined that as soon as opportunity offered he would se- cure such preferment for Dr. Ingram as would silence the objections entertained towards him by Lady Ulrica's family on the score of his inferiority of rank
 The opportunity came with the vacancy in the See of London created by the death of the late Bishop Creighton a few days prior to that of Queen Victoria. and now King Edward. by virtue of his right as supreme head of the church, has made his first Episcopal appointment by invest ing pr. Ingram with the dignity of Bishop of London, which places him in point of rank or the same social level as Lady Ulrica's father, since the Bishop of Lon don, like the Bishop of Winchester. ranks as an earl.