Evening star., 1923-03-11
Dean of St. Paul, Strong Advocate of Beer,
Has Official Charge of Church Brewery

was the finest flower Of the culture
Of Oxford, was so proud of his dean
cry of St Paul, which he held for
half a century. ending in 1890. that
he absolutely refused elevation to the
archbishopric of Canterbury, and the
primacy of the church, which carries
with 1t salary of $4,000 year and
one of the most historic official resi-
dences in London-namely old Lam
beth Palace. on the banks of the
Thames. almcst opposite to the house
OF parliament.
The dean is the presiding officer
and senior of the members of the
Chapter of Canons or Faculty of
Divines, in whose hands the care of
g. cathedral church and of it's
revenues and property is vested.
From time immemorial there has al
ways been a jealously between the
deans of cathedrals and the bishops
or archbishops whose church the
cathedral Is supposed to be. Thus,
the real head of St. PaufS Cathedral,
which is the cathedral church of the
Bishop of London, Is not that prelate,
but the dean of ST. Paul. 1t is the
same at Durham, where the cathedral
is governed and administered by the
dean entirely independently OF the
Bishop of Durham. 1t is the same
again with the beautiful old Minister
of York, which is the cathedral church
of the northern primate, the Arch
bishop of York, yet who has no orders
to give with regard to the minister,
of the minister being in absolute
control
In the reign of that gorgeous crea-
ture, the six-foot-two Dean Liddell,
day and presenting a most imposing
appearance with his red robes, silvery
hair and erect carriage, he was so
jealous of his prerogatives that he
declined to permit the celebrated
Bishop Wilberforce of oxford. nick
named "Soapy Sam" to hold any con-
firmations in Christ Church, which
ranks as a cathedral, and forced that
prelate to hold the ceremonies in
question at the Church of st. Mary's
of Oxford. He even went so far as
to refuse Bishop Wilberforce permis
sion to pass through the choir gates
creep round to his place in the
chancel by aisles and by-ways.
Bishop Charles Barring of Durham,
brother of the first Lord Northbrook,
demanded that MIS-. Barring, MS sec
ond wife, should share the episcopal
throne with him within the chancel
of the cathedral. and was only pre-
vented from this grave piece of
ecclesiastical improperly by the de-
termined and strenuous opposition of
the then dean of Durham-it was
Dean Waddington-and by his entire
chapter.
For, although archbishops rank as
dukes, the bishops of Winchester, Lon
don and Durham, formerly known as
earls, and the other bishops of dioceses
as barons-that Is to say, as peers Of
the realm. or rather spiritual members
Of the house Of lords, their wives have
no place in the official table of prece-
denco, and do not share in any way
their husbands honors and titles. In
fact, they are officially ignored. this
having been so ever since the days of
Queen Elizabeth, who. one day when
dining at Lambeth Palace with the then
primate, thanked his wife for her hos
pitalty, but declared that she did not
know in what fashion to address her.
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Neither have the wives of deans any
share, in. their: husbands titles OF hon