CHAPTER IX. 
WESTMINSTER. 
I NEVER,” said Sir Robert Peel, “ advised an appoint¬ 
ment of which I was more proud, or the result of 
which was in my opinion more satisfactory, than the 
nomination of Dr. Buckland to the Deanery of West¬ 
minster.” 
The appointment was made in 1845, in succession to 
Dean Wilberforce, who was promoted to the See of Oxford. 
Soon afterwards Dean Buckdand was inducted to the living 
of Islip, near Oxford, bequeathed by Edward the Confessor 
to the Abbot of Westminster. Mrs. Buckland writes to Sir 
Philip Egerton from Christ Church in November 1845 : — 
u It is indeed true that Dr. Buckland is to be Dean of 
Westminster. I have one son in the Treasury ; the other, 
Frank, will soon also be a resident in London, pursuing 
his call to surgery. To have a home for these boys would 
of itself be a recommendation to me for a permanent 
residence in London, and Sir Robert Peel’s kindness has 
conferred upon my husband the only piece of preferment 
that would suit him in all respects. It comes wholly 
unexpected ; while we were at Havre this summer Peel 
offered Dr. Buckland the Deanery of Lincoln, which he 
declined, and never supposed Westminster would be 
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