Identifier: reminiscencesofb00pott (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Potter, Henry Codman, 1834-1908
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Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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as a chemist, andalso an inventor and author, with a rare enthu-siasm for botany. The figure that I havesketched on yonder card (it will be found onp. 27 of Archbishop Bensons Life by his son,but without any acknowledgment of its source) was a very familiar one in my boyhood. Ben-sons way to King Edwards School lay pastour door; and often, when I knew that /should be late to school, I looked out of thewindow and saw * White Benson, as we werewont to call him, running thither that he mightnot be. The boy who was a pupil in King EdwardsSchool in Birmingham went thence, as a sizer, toCambridge University,wasgraduated there withhonour, and soon afterwards was chosen to be amaster at Rugby School. He illustrated herethe qualities that subsequently on broader fieldsfound striking opportunity; and it was notsurprising that when Wellington College was The Most Reverend Doctor Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury. From a photograph reproduced by permission ofElliott & Fry, London.
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IRecollectlons of Hrcbbisbop Benson 211 founded for the education of the sons of mili-tary men, and as a memorial of the great Dukeof Wellington, he was called to be its firsthead master. Some fifteen years of a school-masters anxious work led him to crave therepose of a less arduous life; and in 1872,though at large pecuniary sacrifice, he acceptedfrom Bishop Christopher Wordsworth of Lin-coln an invitation to be the chancellor of thediocese, with the additional rank of canon inthe cathedral. He made his position one ofvarious service and influence, and revealedpowers which, when, in 1876, the diocese ofTruro was created out of Exeter, led LordBeaconsfield to offer him that see. He servedit with rare enthusiasm, and with brilliant re-sults; and when, in 1882, Canterbury becamevacant, it would not be an exaggeration to saythat the best elements in the Church ofEngland turned to him, and hailed with widethanksgiving his nomination by Mr. Gladstoneto the primacy. I came to know him six

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