A WITTY BISHOP.

Shannon News, 23 May 1924, Page 4

A WITTY BISHOP.

Bishop Crieghton was a famous wit Sr Lees Knowles writes: —

'On one occasion, speaking in the* neighbourhood of London, possibly at Acton, formerly known as Oak Town, he drew attention to the fact that in old times the estates of the Bishops of London extended for a considerable distance from Fulham, but that times were changed now for whereas • formerly the Bishop of London hunted boars round London, now the bores around London hunt the Bishop of Loudon in Fulham

Mr. Choatte, the United States Ambassador to Great Britain from 1899 to 1005, was a lawyer, scholar and wit. "On one occasion,'' says Sir Lees, "he was asked who in the world, if he were not Mr. Cho'ate, he would like to ; be, and his prompt reply was 'Mrs. Choate's second husband.' On l another occasion, at a public banquet, looking 1 up at the ladies' gallery, lie" exclaimed, •Thou madest man a little lower than the angels!' When a friend, calling upon him on a broiling summer day, found him working in ati office with a big fire burning, and told him that the place was as hot as ah ovem, -Hf"expressed his regret, but added that it ought to be so, as he made his bread there." ~. ,