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THE LATE LORD BISHOP OF WAKEFIELD. 
WILLIAM WHITWELL, F.LS. 
THE morning papers of the 11th of August carried sorrow to the 
hearts of many, outside of the Anglican communion as well as 
within it, by their news of the unexpected, almost sudden it seemed, 
death of the Right Rev. William Walsham How, first Bishop of the 
diocese of Wakefield. Not long before, he had—it is said at the 
Queen’s own request—written the Jubilee hymn; and still more 
recently his name appeared in connection with the Lambeth Con- 
ference of bishops. It was not known that he was even indisposed, 
but only that on the close of the conference, and on the bank 
holiday (August 2nd), he had gone for a short rest, accompanied by 
his eldest son, to Leenane in Connemara. He had preached in his 
own cathedral on the morning of August 1st, and at the village of 
Wrenthorpe in the evening. ni 
Sa past President of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, a brief 
notice of the deceased Bishop’s life is called for in this journal; and 
