Nine Bishops are Bachelors in Britain Now

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 425, 6 August 1928, Page 9

Nine Bishops are Bachelors in Britain Now

One Becomes Engaged To His Secretary DISCUSSION AROUSED (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Saturday. The Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Bertram Pollock, who will be 65 years old in Dtt-tfsrfber, lias announced his engagement to Miss Joan Ryder, aged 25, who has been acting as liis secretary for the last few months. Interest is added to the announcement by the wide publicity lately given to the fact that there are nine bachelor bishop in England. They are: Dr. Pollock, Dr. A. F. Winnington Ingram (London), Dr. C. F. Garbett (Southwark), Dr. W. H. Frere (Truno), Dr. E. A. Burroughs (Ripon), Dr. E. H. Pearce (Worcester), Dr. T. B. Strong (Oxford), Dr. St. Clair Donaldson (Salisbury), and finally, most significant of all, Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York and Archbishop-elect of Canterbury. Winifred Graham, the novelist, in entering into the public discussion of this matter said: Bachelorhood is a disease which is spreading. The Church is setting a bad example and some protest must be made. Why are these bishops bachelors? If they think marriage handicaps the career or the intellectual development why are the bishops always the first to cry “Hands off the home,” to talk of the sanctity of home life and to advocate large families ? What foolish creatures these bishops are. A bachelor has no one to point out his faults, and no one but a wife dare tell him his sermons are too long, or that he is vairi and pompous.