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Richard Whatelt, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, died at his official 

 residence, October 8, 1863, aged seventy-six years. He was born in 

 London, and educated at Oxford, where he received his first degree in 

 1808. Three years afterwards, he was elected a Fellow of Oriel 

 College, an institution which then became, under the able management 

 of its Provost, Dr. Coplestone, the most distinguished school of specu- 

 lative philosophy in England. Among Whately's contemporaries or 

 immediate successors there were Davison, Hampden, Hawkins, Keble, 

 Arnold, the elder Newman, and Pusey ; and he was wont to allude with 

 commendable pride to the fact, that there were, at one time, no less than 

 seven Bishops of the Established Church, viz. four English, two Irish, 

 and one Colonial, who had been members of this one small College. 

 Vacating his fellowship by marriage in 1821, he became Rector of 

 Halesworth, in Suffolk ; but his admirable qualifications for academic 

 life and labor were already so well known, that, after only four years' 

 absence, he was recalled to the University by an unsolicited appoint- 

 ment as Principal of St. Mary's Hall. In this position he remained 

 till 1831, when Earl Grey, then Prime Minister, appointed him Arch- 

 bishop of Dublin, believing that he was the fittest person in the United 

 Kingdom, not only to take the lead in the Irish Church, but to forward 

 the great scheme of National Education in Ireland, and, as an indispen- 

 sable preliminary to its success, to establish more amicable relations 

 between Catholics and Protestants in that divided country. ' This was 

 an enterprise hedged round with peculiar difficulties and perils; but 

 through Dr. Whately's discretion, energy, and perseverance, it was suc- 

 cessfully carried forward for over twenty years. He showed a rare 

 union of literary talent, knowledge of human nature, and adminis- 

 trative ability ; and the work that he accomplished places him in the 

 highest rank of Christian statesmen. 



The published writings of Archbishop Whately were numerous, and 

 upon a great variety of topics. He was almost equally distinguished 

 as a theologian, and as a writer upon the Evidences of Christianity, 

 and the sciences of logic, rhetoric, and political economy. In theology, 

 though he cannot be called the founder of a school, he was an inde- 

 pendent and original thinker, always inclining to the side of liberal 

 opinions, but prompt and efficient in the advocacy of all which he 

 regarded as constituting the essential doctrines of his Church. His 

 " Essays upon some of the Peculiarities of the Christian Religion," " On 

 some of the Difficulties in the Writings of the Apostle Paul," " On the 



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