ARCHDEACON TOWGOOD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 613, 16 September 1909, Page 7

ARCHDEACON TOWGOOD.

.-r — ♦' ■ ' . HIS RESIGNATION. CHANGES' IN THE DIOCESE. Interesting changes in tho "Anglican dioceso ' of' Wellington are announced. , The. Venmbte •— Archdeacon Towgood has resigned both the Arohdoaconry of Wangamu aud tho Curo of Marton. - The archdeaconry has been dindod iinto two portions: the northern, comprising all that part of-'the dioooso that lies north'of i'.' Marton," with the oxcoption of the districts through which 'the Main Trunk line pass®): the southern, eomprising 'those districts, Marton and the remaining part of the area which " formed the old archdeaconry. To tho northern . archdeaconry tho Bishop Ims appointed tho - . j It-ov, J, A, Jacob, M.A., vicar of Christ Church, ■ -i Wanganuii to tho southern archdeaconry, the " J liev. C. C. Harper, M.A., vicar of Palmersten' ' 1 ] North. The Rev. V. 11. ICitcat has Ijeen ap- .< ■ .! pointed to.succced tho Veuoralllo Archdeacon' Towgood,. as vicar-of Marton! , ■ : i Archdeacon Toivgood's Career. •: The Ven. Archdcacon Arthur TOwgood, 8.A., • J ires born at Newport, Monmouthshire,' in 1811, aud was educated at Sherbonc, DorscUhire, and' J at Cuddesdon Theological' College, Oxford, j where he was. a pupil of the late Canon' Li- - j don. Ho Was ordained deacon in Exeter Cathe- ' 5 dral in June, JSCS, and was assistant curato of j Woolborough, South -Devon.- Ho camo out to 1 J New Zealand for his health, and was ordained ' ~ j prie.it in Wellington pro-Cathedral. Ho was ■ - J ourate-in-charee of Spring Grovo and Waimea ' r-.'i West, in tho .Nelson (lioceee,.for a year or two ' ! ..'1 under the lato Bishop Hobhouse. In 1870 he - was presented to the living of St, Stephen's,.' ''j Marton,.under the late Bishop Abraham. Ho has remained at' Marton - ever since, and in •••''•• . j 1893 ho was made Archdeacon of Wanganui. The retiring arohdeaoon, during his. long .v'"'i period of 6«rvico at Martoji, has become very -I popular and beloved. . v ; ;j