DISTINGUISHED, CAREER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1724, 15 April 1913, Page 4

DISTINGUISHED, CAREER.

i' —- ;.. ♦ \ A NEW'ZEALANDER APPOINTED. CANON OF GLOUCESTER, ' •' Tho "Guardian"-'(London) states: TW'--Lord Chancellor had, appointed tho Veil. Walter HoUhouse, Archdeacon of AstOn, to tho Residentiary Canonry at Gloucester va« cant by the death of tlio Rev. Mowbray ■. Trotter., Archdeacon Hobhouso,' who was only appointed Archdeacon of Aston in' Juno last, comes 'of a Somerset family , that 'bears a distinguished name in tho history of the' Church and the public service. He was born in Now Zealand ill 1802, being the second son of Dr. Edmund Hobhouso, who was Bishop of Nelson, ~ New Zealand, from 1858 to 1865, and of 1 Mary, daughter of General the Hon. John. Brodrick. In 1860 tho family returned to England, and five years' later his •father settled in' Lichfield, where ho was assistant to tho Bishop for fifteen years, . After a distinguished career , at Oxford, : Archdeacon Hobhouso was for five years. : from 1894 Head Master of Durham School but was compelled to resign owing to bad health. In 1900*: ho • undertook tha editorship of "Tho Guardian*" Fivo yeai'd ' later ho acceptcd an 'invitation to Birm- , Ingham from Dr. Gore who selected for his colleagues in tho arduous'work following tho formation of the Birmingham Dioceso ■ many of his Oxford'' contemporaries. Iji Birmingham Archdoacon Hob- ' honso has been an enthusiastic (and un< , paid) worker. He is an Honorary Canon and Chancellor of tho Cathedral, and ono • of tho Bishop's Examining Chaplains. ' Ho has taken part in many social movements in tho city, has been a Warden of ' Queen's College, and au official 'Governor of tho Birmingham and Midland In- ■ stitute. His. published works include "Tho Theory and l'ractico of" Ancient Education" (1S85), "Tho Spiritual Standard and other Sermons (1890), "Otium Di« daseali (1898), and "Tho Church and tho World in Idea and .iii History" (Bampton Lectures, 1009). By his appointment ■ ho will lose his seat in /tho Lower House of Canterbury Convocation and his privilege of wearing gaiters; and tho short cassock with ' waistband which gives th« \ appearance of an ."apron." -But thert are other instances of Archdeacons giving up Archdiaconal functions for Canonric3, notably Canon Danks, of Canterbury, formerly Archdeacon of Rich-. , mond, Yorkshire, Canon Campbell, of Carlisler. formerly Archdeacon of Fur-" ness, and Canon Wilson, of Worcester, formerly Archdeacon of Manchester.