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PRIMATE OF ENGLAND DEAD.
ARCHBISHOP or M
PASSES AWAY.
Vas ~ Years Old and Had Been Failing
for Months During speech
In the House Of LOrtis--OppOsitlOn
He Aroused During Ills Career.
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LONDON, Dec. 23.-The Archbishop Of
Canterbury died at SIS o'clock this morn
ing. His wife and two sons were present
The King and Queen have Photographed an
expression Of their sorrow to the widow
and family.
In accordance with the wish of the late
Archbishop the funeral will be of the sim
plest character. The body will be taken
in a hearse drawn by two horses from
Lambeth palace to Victoria Station on
Friday and thence will g. by train to Cantcr-
bury. There the body will bc buried in an
open plot in the Cathedral Close.
Archbishop Temple was the son of
former q Dvernor of Sierra Leone ard was
born on one of the Ionian Islands on Nov.
20. 1921. He was one Of the most conspicu-
ous figures of his time in he ccclesiast ical
world. and was noted for the intellectual
and physical vigor with which he com
bated thos, who figured as his opponents
in the numerous theological storms he
passed through during his time a. Arch
bishop Of Canterbury and Primate Of All
England. His death removes a remark
able man. but it nd been expected for
some time. as in the last few months of his
old age he had failed rapidly.
As boy. Archbishop Temple was sent to
school at Tiverton, and finishing there went
TO Oxford. where he won scholarsn'p at
Ballot. He eventually became low
and mathematical tutor Of his college
and later was appointed principal of the
Training College at kneller Hall. This
was in i4,, and he performed the duties
VI this Office in con junction with an inspec-
torship of schools until 1855 II was three
years after this that he was made head
master of Rugby, succeeding DR.. Goulburn.
q ms la "a in
Among the boys he was known as a firm
man, but Just one.
A. one of the Queens chaplains he made
great disturbance in 1880 by publishing
an article entitled Education of the
World" which was regarded as danger
ously rational istic II was believed that his
chances Of Church preferinent had been
injured; but in 1893. through Mr. Gladstone,
TO whom he had commended himself by
supporting the latter's measure for the
disestablishment of the Irish Clurch, he
received the nomination to the Bshopric
Of Exeter, rendered vacant by the death
of Dr. Philpotts. There was much OPP
position to the appointment, but II was
confirmed by the Vicar-General.
Il 1888 he was elected hampton lecturer
1t oxford and his addresses there were
ublished in book entitled THE Relation
B tween Science and Religion Two years
alter he was transferred TO the see OF Lon
don, where much of the old opposition to
him broke out afresh. One amusing in
cident Of this particular time was his
prosecution of some small boys who per-
sisted in trespassing on the grounds OF his
residence. He had them arrested, an act
for which he was harshly criticised and
cartooned in the papers from one end OF
England to the other.
In 1896 he became Archbishop Of Canter-
bury, and few months later. jointly with
the Archbishop Of York, published a long
Is.a To-, ,1sak a,.I vatt e..
the Pope's bull on Anglican orders To
within few months Of his death the Arch
bishop retained much of his bodily and
mental activity. For some time he had
been sufferer from species Of ataxia,
which led to pathetic little scene when he
weakened at the cremation and the King
| assisted him. In the recent contest over
the Education hill he was one of the most
active champions of the Church cause and
| while delivering the final speech in the
| House Of Lords collapsed.
TORONTO, Dee. 23.-Goldwin Smith.
| speaking Of the late Archbishop OF Canter-
| bury. who died to-day. said:
DIR. Temple was about two years my
| senior at Oxford. He was very poor very
| ef-denying. q very vigorous and indus
| trious student. and personally very much
respected. General robustness OF body
| and mind was his special characteristic,
| He read verv hard and il was supposed
| that he denied himself the SMALLEST uyuries
Those who remembered him in his
| youth were indeed surprised to see how
| orthodox he became a. Archbishop Of
| Canterbury and how decoroualv he dealt
with questions OF candles and incense His
mind was too strong to have drifted or
easily undergone a change, but he had
probably felt the influence of his exalted
| and responsible position. Ingram, the
Bishop Of London. Is young. and may per-
haps be thought too young for the primacy;
otherwise he would be the proba BILE sue