BISHOP OF LINCOLN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 5

BISHOP OF LINCOLN.

IN A. CRITICAL CONDITION. By Telegraph—Press Association—OoDyrieht (Rec. March 5, 0.5 a.m.) . London, March 4. The Bishop of Lincoln (Dr. King) is in a critical condition. He had dictated a touching farewell to the people of the diocese.

The Right Rev. Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, was born in 1829, and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where ho graduated B.A. in 1851 and M.A. in 1855. He took the -degree of D.D. in 1573. In 1858 he was appointed ohaplain and assistant lecturer of; Cuddesdon College, and from' 1863 to 1873 he was principal of the college. In 1873 he bacamc Canon, of. Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, in \vhich position he. exercised an extraordinary inlluence throughout the University. On the death of Dr. Christopher Wordsworth in 1885, Dr. King was appointed to the Bishopric of Lincoln, and was consecrated in St. Paul's Cathedral oil April 25, .1885. On June 5, 1888, ' the members of the. Church Association decided to commenco proceedings against him for illegal practices in the celebration of the Holy Communion at one of the parish churches in the city of Lincoln. The trial wns opened at Lambeth Palace before tho Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Benson), with the Bishops of London (Dr. Temple), Winchester (Dr. Thorold), Oxford (Dr. Stubbs), and Salisbury (Dr. Wordsworth), on February 12, ISB9. The Archbishop's Court had not been .convoked. for more than 200 years, and its revival—for so tho Archbishop's action was popularly regarded—excited a good deal 'of controversy. The greatest ecclesiastical lawyers of the day were retained by the parties to the snit, and their exhaustive arguments before the Court furnish, when taken together, a compendious view of the whole question of ritual in the Church of England. The judgment was on the whole in favour of the Bishop Read, the nominal plaintiff, appealed to the Judicial Committed of. tho Privy Council, but on August 2, 1892, tho Judicial Committee dismissed the appeal, the Archbishop's judgment being affirmed in all points.