The Telegram. — 1896-03-24 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

DEATH OF ARCHDEACON DENISON.  W, regret to announce that 1115 Vett. Archdeacon Ler iaon, who had been in failing health fcr some tint., passed pee:atoll, away at an early boor on Sa•urday [corning, at Eait Brent Vicarage, near Weloon-s Iper- Mare, in the preaence of his wife and other members of the household. The Bishop of Bath and Wells on Frida” evening sent the follow. ItIK tuisarani :—" Give the Archdewmn my bra aol bletoonk. You have CUT deepest sympathy," The ,Itlng man Cu its r CEil3t expressed himself wi•l; teased with roe kno vtedge of hating go many friendu, sod remarked 'hat. he could leave the world la peace with all. tdl,,,re Anthony Deniton, Archdeacon of Taunton. f•datli ion cf the bat ',Mr. John Denison, M. _.  (tirotiter of the late Viacount Oseington, Siteslow of the House of Common., 1857.72, and of the Birliop of Salisbury, 18:17-54) was born in 1305. He woe educated at Etot and Christ Church, Ov. food, where he graduated B.A. ru 1626, taking a first class in classical hoaours. In 1828 he was elected Fellow of Oriel Caliege, and in the same year was University Priremair, gaining She Latin and the English &say in 1820. He was curaie of Cuddestion. Oxfordshire, from 1832 to IE3B, when he beixinie vicar of Broadwindsor, Dottier, whence be was transferred, in 1845, to the vicarage of East Brent, Somerset, and became E von n ing Chaplain to the Bishop of Bath anti Wells, who advanced him in 1851 to the Archdeaconry of Taunton. The al cl. :deacon was so active member of the London and brit-tat "Church Unions," and a strong opponent of all schemes of Government education. In 1053, in conaequeuce of a charge of unsound doctrine publicly made against him by Iliallop Spencer (late of Madras), who was at that time diesbarging the functions of the Bishop a Bath and Welk, the archdeacon resigned his examining chaplaincy, and preached in the cathe. dud, Wells, three sermons on "The Beal Fri. senor," which he published as his defence. Proceedings were taken against him on ace mat of matter contained in those sermons in January, 1354. In 1856 the archdeacon was sentenced to deprivation of all his pr.efertnenta by judg• meet of a Court held at Bath, and presided over by the then Areldinehop of Canterbury. This sentence was set . aside, upon appeal to the Court of Arches, upon a tome of an;! and the judgment of the Court of Arches was coishrmed. on (nether appeal, by the Judicial Commatee of the Privy Council, Feb. 6th. 1858. The archdeacon was one of the most persevering opponeuta of secular Government education and of the" Conamenee Choice," and advocated strongly AI. ath.antxd ritual in the services of the Church, she ore of the confessional, and the revival of Church authority. Ha was a member of Convoestinh is 1861. and 1864, and chairman of the committees, the reports of which resulted in the synodical con. detonation of "Essays an.' Reviews rind of Dr. Colenso's books. In 1878 Archdeacou DORISOI3 published an interesting autobiographical memoir, entitled "Notes of my Life, which has run through many editions. This was followed Nome years later by a " Supplement to N des of my Life." Owing to his advanced age the archdeacon during the pact few year. had lived in entirenient at East Brent, where he was much beloved, The INIWP of the death of Archtleacca Denteon caused widesresd regret in TSUBtOII, and the event was referred to in several of the churches on Sunday,  Charles Randle, 43, hairdresser, has committed suicide at Smethsvick by rotting his throat. The Conntess of Iwvelace & among the few ladies in Surrey who have been elected on toe new parish  .