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course of a few months. This was typical of the man throughout his 

 life. He had a quite extraordinary power of work. He was a great 

 scholar and a learned man, and he remained so to the last. But whilst 

 learned treatises, and piimphlets on important questions of the day 

 affecting Church policy or organisation, flowed from his pen in a never- 

 ceasing stream, each one of which was a finished and solid contribution 

 to the matter discussed, yet all the time he was travelling through his 

 diocese at the rate of about 10,000 miles each year, and answering, 

 generally by return of jiost and with his own hand, the innumerable 

 letters on every question under the sun that a modern bishop receives 

 by the daily post. No bishop was ever so much in evidence throughout 

 the wide diocese that stretches from Weymouth to Wootton Bassett, 

 He had a wonderful memory ; he forgot neither faces nor facts, and 

 his knowledge, both of the clergy and chief parishioners, and of the 

 circumstances of their parishes was close and accurate. He was not a 

 great preacher, though his sermons were always well worth reading. 

 His manner was not always popular, but no man had a kinder heart or 

 was more ready with practical help in every case that needed it. His 

 gifts, indeed, both public and private, must have largely absorbed the 

 income of the see, and his hospitality at the Palace was unbounded. 

 The admirable secondary school which he founded in Salisbury and 

 which bears his name cost him many thousands of pounds. The cause 

 of education in general, and especially of religious education, was always 

 very near to him, and it was owing to his energy and initiative, and in 

 no small measure to his own personal gifts, that the large sum of money 

 necessary to save the Church Schools in Salisbury from extinction was 

 raised in the early dciys of his episcopate. He was probably regarded 

 by many who knew him but slightly as a somewhat unpractical scholar, 

 and endless good stories were told of his quaint absence of mind, but 

 no man ever saw the practical points of any given question, or recog- 

 nised the possibilities of any line of policy more quickly or more surely 

 than he did. He had, indeed, much of the statesman's mind, a mind 

 that was singularly free from narrowness. He cared nothing for 

 popularity, or for what men said of him, and in Church matters as in 

 other things he took his own line, a line that was characterised by wide 

 knowledge and practical commonsense, a line that was at once moderate 

 and courageous. In him the Diocese of Salisbury will rememl)er one 

 the most notable of all its l)ishops. 



Long obituary notices appeared in The Tinn'S, August 17th and ISth ; 

 Sdlisbnry Diocmn Gdzctte, Sejjtember (with sermons by the IJishop 

 of Winciiester and Canon Myers) ; October and November (a series of 

 short articles by variou.s writers on his early years, '' Winchester." 

 "Oxford," ami the dittVrent phases oi his diocesan work as bishop) ; 

 Gmirdian, Aug. Isth and i^r.th ; Wi/tshhr Gnzett>', Aug. ITth, 2 Itli, and 

 31st, S('])t. I 1th an(l2Sth ; \\'//ts/i/r> Gnunt;/ Mirmr, with good portrait, 

 Aug. IHth and 'J-ind ; Salisljuri/ JouiikiI , Aug. Itith ami 2Glh ; Wiltshire 

 Ti}neii,\y\t\\ jiortiait, August l!ith ; A'. WiltsCliurchMdijazine, September 

 (an a])preciation hy the llt'v. \\. .T. liodingon) ; Ilrist<>l DinCfSdn M'I'HI- 

 zincy September (u tribulr by .). (i. T.) 



