DR. EUGENE STOCK DEAD
VETERAN MISSION WORKER (United P.A.—By Telegraph- — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Saturday. The death has occurred of Dr. Eugene Stock, the veteran Missionary Society secretary, in his 93rd year. The late Dr. Eugene Stock, who was secretary of the Church Missionary Society for 33 years, was born in February, 1836. He was in business in London until he was 40, but was an ardent church worker. In 1873 he was appointed to the secretaryship of the society which he held for so long. After his retirement in 1906 he settled at Bournemouth and until he was 87 he used to preach occasionally. Dr. Stock remembered the excitement over the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Chartist agitation. He was nearly crushed to death at the lying-in-state of the Duke of Wellington at Chelsea Hospital and saw the funeral procession from the roof of a house in Piccadilly. He had heard Dickens and Thackeray lecture and had met all the notable churchmen and nonconformists of three generations. Dr. Stock—he received an honorary D.C.L. from Durham University in 1908 —was one of the original members of the House of Laymen and of the National Church Assembly.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 455, 10 September 1928, Page 9
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203DR. EUGENE STOCK DEAD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 455, 10 September 1928, Page 9
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