Mk uaaa m YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 1944 A MEMOIR OF LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, D.D., BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. Walker&BDuis. K 1832.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 13 field of ministerial exertion than that in which you have commenced your labours. " That those labours, in whatever department of His household they are exercised, may be blessed by the great Head of the Church, will be the sincere prayer of, " My dear Lord, " Your faithful friend and servant, " C. J. London." For thirty-seven years, then, from 1832 to 1869, Lord Arthur Hervey was Rector of Ickworth, residing at Ickworth Lodge, which had been his father's residence till the com pletion of the new mansion in 1829. Into his duties as a parish clergyman he threw himself from the first with characteristic zeal and energy. One of the most prominent features of his character all through life was the eagerness with which he devoted himself to the discharge of any work which he had undertaken. Whether it was the writing of a book, or the building of a school, the for mation of a society, the preparation of an address, or the discharge of the duties of an office, while the work was in progress, and until it had been satisfactorily completed, his heart and mind were in it, his interest never U lord ARTHUR HER\EV, [1S3:. flagged, his zeal never grew cold. So, when he was first ordained, and entered upon his charge at Ickworth, he flung himself eagerly and actively into his work — he was absorbed in it ; he was thoroughly persuaded of its im portance ; it occupied always the first place in his thoughts. He allowed nothing, no social distractions or amusements, to interfere with it His first appearance in print was in the form of a tract on " Infant Baptism." It appears from it that a strong Baptist move ment had been going on in the rural districts of Suffolk, and that many of the country folk had been persuaded by Baptist preachers that infant baptism was an unsound and un- scriptural institution, and had accordingly been rebaptized into the Baptist communion. It was to combat these views and reassure his flock as to the validity of their baptism that the tract was written. But as time went on, it was not to be expected that his abounding energies would be confined entirely within the narrow limits of his benefice. He came by degrees to take an active and leading part in the organization 1832.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 15 of various institutions connected with the town of Bury St. Edmunds and its neigh bourhood. The institution with which he was most closely identified, and upon the formation and building up of which he bestowed a very large amount of time and labour, was the Bury Athenaeum, a literary and scientific institution, which included a reading-room, lecture-hall, museum, and observatory. He raised, by his own personal exertions, the sum required for the purchase of the building, established and kept going in it classes and courses of lectures, and was, in fact, from the beginning the life and soul of the institution. He attended regularly the meetingfs of its council, himself conducted history classes for its younger members, gave at least once a year a lecture, generally on some historical subject, and succeeded in inducing many of the most eminent lite rary, and scientific men of the day — as Dr. Whewell, Sir Charles Lyell, Professors Sedgwick, Owen, Airy, and Henslow, Lord Rayleigh (then Mr. Strutt), Archbishop Trench, Charles Kingsley, and F. D. Maurice — to lecture in the large assembly i6 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1855, hall, which formed part of the building. In short, he endeavoured by everj' available means, and with no inconsiderable amount of success, to make the Athenaeum, of which he was President, a centre of literary, scientific, educational, and social usefulness to the people of Bury. Many an evening in the winter months he would ride into Bury to attend a meeting or conduct a class, returning home as late as ten or eleven o'clock. He was connected, of course, as well with many other religious and benevolent societies and institutions, and took an active part in their management ; but I have selected for special mention his connection with the Athenaeum, because it was one which he founded himself, in which he took the keenest interest, and to which he devoted an extraordinary amount of time and energy. In 1855 Lord Arthur published a pamphlet entitled " A Suggestion for supply ing the Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institutes of Great Britain and Ireland with Lecturers from the Universities," in which, as far as I know, he was the first to advocate the system of University Extension, which ISSS-I BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 17 has since been set on foot, and carried out with such happy results. After pointing out the large number of these Institutes, which during the preceding fifty years had come into existence, the demand for lectures on literary and scientific subjects which had arisen in connection with them, the impor tance of obtaining the services of lecturers of real knowledge and ability, and of pro viding courses of instruction upon some particular branch of knowledge, instead of a desultory series of disconnected addresses ; and after pointing out how the then com paratively recent invention of railways had brought into easy communication with our ancient and famous Universities districts which had been before remote and inacces sible from them, he went on to say, " Why, then, might it not be both practicable and advisable for the Universities to supply lecturers to the Mechanics' Institutes and Athenaeums, and similar literary institutions throughout the country ? Extending the Professorial system, and the Lecture system, and the Open-hall system, yet further than has yet been advocated, why should not i8 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1855. University professors, men of the highest standing and attainments, go forth from the Universities and find their pupils In the different towns and cities within a certain distance from them? So that up to a certain point the advantages of University education, or of being taught different subjects in science and literature by those who are best qualified to teach them, would be placed within reach of thousands who could otherwise never have obtained them." And he went on to suggest the appointment, at each University, of four rural or circuit Professors, each of whom should deliver a course of six lectures on his own special subject — astronomy, or geology, or literature — in twenty towns in the course of a year, so that eighty towns would thus be supplied by each University with lecturers, and in a cycle of four years each town, if it wished, would receive a course of lectures on each of four subjects. And if each town through its Institute contributed twenty pounds a year, a salary of four hundred pounds would be provided for each of the four Professors. A copy of the pamphlet was forwarded to I8SS-] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 19 Lord Stanley, M.P., afterwards Lord Derby, and drew from him the following interesting reply : — " Ballykisten, Tipperary, Ireland, " Sept. 18, 1855. "My dear Lord, " I know not whether it is usual or neces sary to trouble the sender of a pamphlet with the receiver's opinion ; but having to thank you for your printed circular, suggesting the appointment by the two Universities of lecturers to itinerate among the educational societies of the great towns, I cannot refrain from expressing my cordial approval of, and concurrence in, the general plan proposed by you. ... I have taken an interest in the working of Literary and Scientific Institutes in Lancashire and elsewhere ; imperfectly as these are yet developed, and miserably inadequate as are the funds generally provided for their support, they are still the only machinery we have for education, really so called. They are destined, I believe, to play a much more important part in our social system than they have hitherto played. The weakest point in their management is that which relates to lectures. Regular courses are seldom given ; all is desultory, disconnected, vague. Often the lecturers are half-informed amateurs, or men who make lecturing a mere trade. « Your remedy is the right one, if you can persuade Oxford and Cambridge to adopt it. But will they ? " The first step must be taken by the Institutes themselves, the next is to induce a few young. 20 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1855. active Fellows of Colleges, or other academical residents, to volunteer for this special duty. Formal appointments by the Universities, and professional rank, should (I think) come last, and grow naturally out of what has already been done by individuals. If you wish for this step to be taken by the Universities, you may wait long. Indeed, it would be premature. "The Institutes should pay a part, certainly one-half, of the entire salary of these lecturers. It would answer to them, in a pecuniary point of view. To men, themselves in a higher sense students, but thoroughly familiar with the elements of the sciences on which they would undertake to lecture, the act of lecturing will be a useful training — giving fluency, readiness, and a minute knowledge of matters which they might otherwise be in danger of forgetting. I believe most subjects would be popular with the artisan class in northern towns : physical science, mental philosophy, his tory, if well explained. Anything except classics, which of course they care nothing for. " There is one difficulty. Lecturing in summer is useless. No audience could be got together. The best season is from October to April. There might be a jealousy as to priority of attendance, and the most convenient time. But this can be got over. ... " I should apologize for so long an intrusion upon your time, but the cause is one in which we are both concerned, and not we alone, but all thinking men in England. " I remain, yours faithfully, " Stanley." i862.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 21 In 1862 Lord Arthur was appointed, by Bishop Turton of Ely, Archdeacon of Sud bury, his Archdeaconry comprising the western division of the County of Suffolk, and a portion of the adjoining county of Cambridgeshire ; and at once, on the prin ciple which he pursued of never doing things by halves, he threw himself with interest and ardour into the duties of his office. He began at once a tour of inspec tion of the Archdeaconry, which he repeated at regular intervals ; and he set on foot various Archidiaconal institutions. Among them may be mentioned a Church Choral Society, which held an annual festival of choirs at some church In the Archdeaconry ; and a Church Building Society, which helped the restoration of churches by grants from its funds. As Archdeacon also he attended regularly the meetings of the Lower House of Convocation, and was a not infrequent contributor to its debates. In 1 861 Lord Arthur had made a very curious and interesting discovery in his library at Ickworth. Part of the library consisted of a number of volumes, chiefly old 22 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1862. books of divinity, which had been left in the house and given to him, when his father Lord Bristol moved into the new mansion. Among these he found one day, quite by accident, a copy of Tyndale's translation of the Book of Jonah, bound up in a volume with other tracts, and having in it the names of Sir Thomas Hervey and Isabella his wife, who died at the end of the 17th century. There had been some reason to suppose that such a translation had been published by Tyndale ; but as no copy of it was known to be in existence, the matter was surrounded with doubt. The question was now set at rest by this discovery. The volume was sub sequently purchased by the British Museum ; but at the suggestion of Mr. Francis Fry, F.S.A., of Bristol, It was first placed in his hands in order that he might print a reproduc tion of it in facsimile, as he had just completed one of Tyndale's first Testament. This was most carefully done by Mr. Fry, in 1863. The title-page runs thus : " The Prophete Jonas with an introduction before teachinge to understonde him, and the right use also of all the Scripture and why it was written 1869.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 23 and what is therein to be sought and shew- inge wherewith the Scripture is locked upp that he which readeth It cannot understonde it though he studie therein never so much and agayn with what keyes it Is so opened that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or false doctrine of man from the true sense and understonding thereof." In 1869 Lord Arthur Hervey was ap pointed, on the recommendation of his old schoolfellow Mr. Gladstone, to the Bishopric. of Bath and Wells, vacant by the resignation of Lord Auckland ; and on St. Thomas's Day was consecrated In Westminster Abbey, together with Dr. Temple, Bishop of Exeter (now of London). Amid many expressions of affectionate esteem, including the presen tation to Lady Arthur of his portrait by Graves from the clergy and laity of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, a piece of plate from the members of the Bury Athenaeum, and another from the parishioners of Ickworth and Horringer, and many cordial congratu lations on a well-earned promotion mingled with regret at the severance of his connec tion with his native county, he left Ickworth, 24 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1869. the home of sixty years, exchanged the East for the West, and made a new home in the county of Somerset. Lord Auckland occu pied the palace till his death a few months later, and so he took up his abode for a few months at Bath, moving In the spring of 1870 to the Deanery at Wells, and in the following winter to the palace. Here he had already carried out some improvements, the principal of which was the restoration of the undercroft, which had been used as a lumber-room and a receptacle for coals and firewood, and its conversion into a dining- hall. At first this idea met with little encouragement from those to whom he communicated it ; but when it had been carried out, and the transformation was com pleted, there was but one opinion — that it was a most happy idea, in that it rescued from neglect and disuse a really beautiful chamber, and converted it to a purpose for which, if not originally intended, it was at all events admirably suited. I have already more than once had occa sion to mention, what every one who knew him well must have observed in him, the 1869.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 25 power he possessed of throwing himself, not only with conscientious painstaking industry and zeal, but with eagerness and evident zest and enjoyment, into the performance of any duties which devolved upon him. Though over sixty years of age at the time of his appointment to the see, he at once, as it were, buckled on his armour and prepared to discharge the functions of his new office to the very utmost of his power and ability, and to make, so far as he could, his episco pate effective and serviceable to the Church in his diocese. I do not propose to give any extended history of that episcopate, but only to allude to one or two of what I conceive to have been its most distinctive features. From the outset his object was to make the cathedral city of Wells the ecclesiastical centre and metropolis of the diocese ; to draw together from all parts of the county clergy and laity interested in Church work for mutual counsel and co-operation ; and all who came for this purpose were received at the palace as welcome guests. Whenever a gathering of any kind, large or small. In 26 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1869. connection with any branch of Church work, took place at Wells, the palace doors were always thrown open ; luncheon, or dinner, or tea, as the case might be, was provided for persons of all classes and conditions ; and all who came were received with an equal warmth of welcome. In this kind of open hospitality, which was not a mere formality, but a convenience and an accommodation to his guests, and which helped to bring together men and women from all parts of the diocese, and contributed to the facility and the enjoyment of a visit to Wells, the Bishop, in this as in other matters devotedly seconded by Lady Arthur, greatly delighted. He was never happier, never enjoyed himself and his surroundings more, than when the restored undercroft was thus filled, as was often the case, with an assemblage of one or two hundred guests, and when he felt that the palace was thus being made serviceable to the county and the diocese. The diocese is, I think, fortunate In this respect, that its boundaries coincide with those of the county of Somerset. 1869.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 27 People who are accustomed to work to gether in secular matters are the more readily inclined to combine and co-operate in Church work, and this inclination was fortified by the fact that at the palace they would always find a common meeting-place where they would be cordially received. Certainly from the very beginning the Bishop and his family were most kindly received In Somersetshire. They soon, as it were, took root in the soil ; they were quickly naturalised and acclimatised ; they gathered around them a congenial circle of warm and faithful friends, and their second home in the West soon became no less dear than had been the old one in the East. The relations between the Bishop and the Dean and Chapter, as well as those between the palace and the city of Wells, were always of a cordial character. The Bishop was proud of his connection with the city, and took the warmest interest in all that con cerned its welfare. Among the institutions which he founded, and in which he took an especial Interest, were the Cottage Hospital, founded In 1874, the Coffee Tavern and the 28 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY [1869. Red Lion Club, founded in 1882, and the Recreation Ground, which was established mainly by his efforts in 1887 as a memorial of the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign. It was one of his characteristics that, when he took up an object, he always went through with it ; that he was not daunted by the first difficulty, or discouraged by the first note of opposition ; but that, having once made up his mind that the object was a good one, and would be of real service if it were accomplished, he persevered to the end, without any cooling of ardour or relaxa tion of effort, till the work was completed ; and when it was done, he never lost interest in it afterwards, but was always on the look out for opportunities of adding to its useful ness and ensuring Its permanence. I may add that when money was required for the carrying out of any object in which he was interested, he was always fertile in the sug gestion of methods for raising it, and seldom desisted from his efforts till the sum required was forthcoming. Among other interesting events which marked his residence at Wells may be men- 1873.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 29 tioned the marriage of three of his daughters — Katherine, to Mr. Charles Hoare, in 1872 ; Patience, to Mr. Palmer-Morewood, in 1873 ; and Sarah, to Mr. W. Ayshford Sanford, in 1874. The latter, one of the most charming of companions, whose sweetness of disposi tion and cultivated mind endeared her to all who knew her, died at Madeira in 1877, leaving a gap in the family circle which was long and deeply felt. In 1873 the Bishop presided over the Church Congress held at Bath. Some recent controversies in which he had been engaged tended to make his position as President a somewhat difficult one ; but the happy com bination of fairness and firmness with which he played his part extorted the admiration even of those who at the moment were strongly opposed to him in ecclesiastical matters, and allayed any angry feelings which might have been excited ; and the result was decidedly to strengthen his position in the Church and in the diocese. In January, 1877, great local interest was excited by a visit paid to the palace by Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone and the 30 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1877. Bishop had been schoolfellows and friends at Eton fifty years before, and though their sub sequent paths in life had widely diverged, yet from time to time they had had opportunities of meeting and renewing their acquaintance. It was a time of great political excitement, when party spirit ran high. The stirring events which, in the course of the previous eighteen months, had occurred in the east of Europe — the insurrection in Herzegovina, the war between Turkey and Servia, the Bulgarian atrocities, and the outburst of indignation which the news of them had excited throughout England ; the quite recent failure of the Constantinople conference, at which Lord Salisbury had represented Great Britain, and whose recommendations had been rejected by the Porte ; and especially the part taken by Mr. Gladstone himself, who, moved by these events, had come out of his political retirement, had put himself at the head of the movement directed against the authors of the Bulgarian atrocities, and in an eloquent pamphlet had put forward what was known at the time as the "bag and baggage policy ; " all this had combined to i877.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 31 invest with especial interest at this moment the movements of the veteran and illustrious statesman. He came to Wells from Long- leat, where he had been the guest of Lord Bath, whose sympathies on the Eastern Question accorded with his. There he had met Mr. E. A. Freeman, the distinguished historian, a near neighbour and a valued friend of the Bishop's. Mr. Freeman Invited Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone to luncheon at Somerleaze during their stay at Wells ; but the Bishop thought it advisable not to accompany them, as the occasion might possibly assume something of a political cha racter. Mr. Freeman, in proposing the health of his distinguished guest, spoke, as might be expected of him, in strong terms on the burning topic of the day. Mr. Gladstone, in replying, compared himself to a mariner who after shipwreck has been attempting to swim to land, and after a long buffeting with the waves has at last succeeded in reaching the shore. He sets off" to run up the beach as fast as he can, but as he runs a great wave overtakes him, carries him off" his feet, and washes him back to sea again. So, just as he 32 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1878. (Mr. Gladstone) had hoped to have escaped from the stormy sea of politics, and to have reached a haven of repose, this Eastern Question had arisen to overtake him in his retreat, and to force him back into the very thick and forefront of the battle. Mr. Gladstone's visit to the palace was much enjoyed by the Bishop. The great statesman's conversation, illustrating as it did the wide range of subjects which interested him, and on which he had accumu lated vast stores of knowledge and informa tion, and especially testifying to the attraction which ecclesiastical matters evidently had for him, was full of Interest to his hearers. And Mr. Gladstone, on his part, appeared to be charmed with the beauty of the cathedral and its surroundings. Another interesting visit was that paid to the Palace, in 1878, by a party of American bishops, who had been attending the Pan- Anglican Synod held in that year. The party included the Bishops of Albany, Long Island, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Central Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Dela ware, Louisiana, and Shanghai. I877-79-] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 33 In 1877-79 ^^^ Bishop became involved in a protracted and costly litigation through his refusal to institute, on the ground of habitual intemperance, a clergyman who had pur chased and, on its becoming vacant, pre sented himself to a benefice in the diocese. The case was twice tried, first in the Court of Arches, and then on appeal by the plaintiff", before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. In both trials the evidence was considered so conclusive by the judges, that they did not call upon the Bishop's counsel to reply, but gave judgment in his favour with costs ; but in spite of every effort made by his solicitors, not a penny was ever re covered. The total cost to him of the suit was ;^i558. The diocese, however, came forward with great liberality, and a sum of ;!^978 was raised by subscription, of which ;^5o6 was contributed by the laity, through Lord Cork, Lord Lieutenant of the county, and ;^472 by the clergy, through the arch deacons and rural deans, leaving a balance only of ;^58o, which represented the actual cost to the Bishop. Surely the time will come when some plan will be devised, more D 54 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1879-89. speedy in its operation, and less ruinous in its costliness, whereby a bishop will be empowered to prevent the intrusion into a cure of souls of a manifestly unfit or incom petent clergyman. On several occasions tokens of confidence, esteem, and aff"ection had been presented to the Bishop from his diocese. A very hand some pastoral staff" was given in 1882. In 1885 the Diocesan Board presented a massive sideboard carved by Mr. Halliday of Wells, and in 1888, on the eightieth anniversary of his birth, the archdeacons, rural deans, and clergy, 383 in number, gave a beautiful episcopal ring, together with a sum of £1^2, which was devoted to the building of one of two cottages on the Recreation Ground at Wells. On July 30, 1839, Lord Arthur Hervey had married Patience, daughter of Mr. John Singleton, of Hazely, Hants, and Mell, co. Louth. A family of twelve children had been born to them, of whom nine still survived, and now, on July 30, 1889, they celebrated at Wells their golden wedding. The occasion evoked a general and wide- < I879-89-] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 35 spread demonstration of affection and regard. Addresses were presented by the Mayor and Corporation, and by the Dean and Chapter. The ladies of the diocese presented Lady Arthur with a very handsome silver tea service ; many other presents were received, including a pair of massive gold candlesticks from seventy-two nephews and nieces, great nephews and nieces, and great-great nephews and nieces ; and a committee, representing all sorts and conditions of men in the city of Wells and its neighbourhood, which had been appointed at a public meeting held to con sider the best way of celebrating the event, requested the Bishop to sit for his portrait to Mr. W. B. Richmond. This the Bishop did, and the portrait, an admirable likeness, now hangs on the walls of the Town Hall at Wells. This happy celebration was soon to be followed by a heavy domestic sorrow. The Bishop's fifth son, Captain Arthur Hervey, of the Rifle Brigade, had for some months been seriously ill. At the end of July he had so far rallied that good hopes of his recovery were entertained. Three weeks later a 36 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1879-89. relapse took place, and he died at Coombe, in Surrey, on August 20th. He was buried at Wells, and the epitaph on his tombstone is his father's testimony to a singularly lovable and unselfish character. As his place in the Classical Tripos at Cambridge showed. Lord Arthur was a good Latin and Greek scholar. In after life he had lost no opportunity of acquir ing a knowledge of languages which would be useful to him in his Biblical studies. French he had mastered in childhood, Ger man he subsequently studied sufficiently to enable him to consult the works of German commentators. Hebrew he worked at for many years, so that he became a very fair Hebrew scholar. He also acquired some knowledge both of Arabic and Sanscrit, I may mention, as showing how he seized every opportunity of pursuing his linguistic studies, that when spending a winter in Paris in 1850, he regularly attended a San scrit class, and also that when taking a summer holiday in Wales, in 1848, he took daily lessons in Welsh from the clergyman of the parish. 1879-89-] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 37 The Bishop's published works are few in number. They include two volumes of Parochial Sermons, published in 1850, by subscription, for the benefit of Mr. Sidney Herbert's scheme for promoting female emigration ; " The Genealogies of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as contained in the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke, reconciled with each other, and with the genealogy of the House of David from Adam to the close of the Canon of the Old Testament, and shown to be in harmony with the true chronology of the times, 1853 ; " " The Inspiration of Holy Scripture," five sermons preached before the University of Cambridge in December, 1855;* "The Authenticity of St. Luke's Gospel," five lectures delivered at Bath in 1890; and "The Books of the Chronicles in relation to the Pentateuch and the Higher Criticism," five lectures delivered at Wells in 1892 ; besides a number of single sermons, lectures, and pamphlets. The most important of his writings was that on the Genealogies of our * He was also select preacher before the University in 1859 ^^^ 1870, 38 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1878-89. Lord, a subject in which he was intensely Interested, and to which he attached great importance. Its main conclusion was that the genealogies given by St. Matthew and St. Luke are both those of Joseph, and that the variations between the two are mainly due to the fact that St. Matthew gives the succession of the legal heirs of David's and Solomon's throne, while St. Luke traces Joseph's real lineage back to Nathan, whose children became the heirs of Solomon's throne upon the failure of Solomon's line in Jehoiachin. A number of chronological questions arising out of the genealogies are also discussed, including the chronology of the Exodus, and also that of the books of Ezra and Nehemlah. The Bishop was strongly of opinion that in the study of chronology the genealogies of the Old Testament are invaluable ; and that in deciding the date of particular events, or the interval between two events, they are far more to be relied upon than numerals, which were especially liable to corruption through the errors of copyists. His views on the chronology of the Exodus. 1883.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 39 which, on the evidence of the genealogies covering the period between it and the time of David, he put at a date later by about two hundred years than that which had been usually assigned to it,* have, since he wrote, been confirmed to a remark able extent by modern discoveries, and. are now generally accepted by chronologists as correct. The following letters from the Rev, J, M, Fuller, Vicar of Bexley, who undertook the editing of the second edition of Dr, Smith's "Dictionary of the Bible," and from Mr, Reginald Stuart Poole, of the British Museum, who wrote for the first edition of the Dictionary the article " Chrono logy," in which he had adopted the earlier date, speak for themselves : — "Vicarage, Bexley, "July 30, 1883. "My Lord, "... The Article on Chronology came to you entire ; and therein stands a fact interesting in literary intercourse as well as full of courtesy. Mr. R. Stuart Poole is the writer of what was not written by your Lordship. The other day he begged me to ask you to undertake the whole, * "Genealogies of our Lord," chap. ix. (1853), 40 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1883. and for this reason. When he wrote his part, he took a view differing from yours. Further re search has proved your view right and his wrong. He therefore respectfully concedes what you have a right to undertake. . , , " Believe me, with sincere respect, " Velry faithfully yours, "J, M. Fuller." " British Museum, "April 23, 1883. "My Lord Bishop, "I beg to enclose a receipt for your Lordship's kind donation to the Egypt Explora tion Fund, which I should have earlier forwarded had I not been absent from town. "I took occasion, in a letter to the Academy on our Excavations (March 17), to point out how signally your Lordship's views on Hebrew Chron ology were now confirmed. I have much to regret in my past theories, and I hope I may have a chance of full recantation. " I have the honour to be, my Lord Bishop, " Your Lordship's faithful Servant, "Reginald Stuart Poole." But though the Bishop's published works were few in number, yet, if we include in his writings all his contributions to the literature of the day, he must be considered to have been a laborious and voluminous writer. He was a large contributor to Smith's 1883.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 41 Dictionary of the Bible. Among the more important of the hundred and fifty articles which he contributed were those on Chroni cles, Books of; Esther; Esther, Book of; Ezra; Ezra, Book of; Genealogy; Gene alogy of Jesus Christ; High Priest; Joseph ; Kings, Books of; Nehemlah; Nehemlah, Book of ; Rahab ; Ruth; Samson; Zerub- babel. To the Speaker's Commentary he contributed Judges, Ruth, I, arid II, Samuel ; to the S.P.C.K. Old Testament Commentary I. and II. Kings, and I. and II, Chronicles; to the Pulpit Commentary, the Exposition and Homiletics of Judges, Acts of the Apostles, First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and Epistle to Titus ; and to the Pentateuch in the series of Public School Text Books of Religious Instruction, edited by Dr, E, L. Cutts, Genesis and Exodus, In fact, for some forty years of his life, he was never without some literary work in hand ; and he had completed, only a few days before his death, an Introduction to " Lex Mosaica," edited by the Rev, Richard Valpy French. By far the greater part of what he wrote 42 lord ARTHUR HERVEY, [1883. was in the nature of Biblical exposition; but he had also given a good deal of thought and attention to other subjects — as history, archaeology and philology. In 1856, as President of the Archaeological Institute of Suffolk, he read a paper on " Ickworth and the Family of Hervey," and this was subsequently elaborated into a volume of one hundred and thirty pages. I well remember the interest he took in the subject of the family pedigree while he was compiling it, and the correspondence, some times amounting to two or three letters a day, which for a long time was carried on between him and his eldest brother, then Lord Jermyn, on the subject. Nor shall I easily forget a visit paid with him in the year 1888 to the castle of St. Aignan in the province of Berri. At the time of the Norman conquest a certain Herv6 was lord of St. Aignan. And soon after wards a certain Hervefls BIturicensIs (Hervey of Berri) appears to have come to England, and to have received large grants of land in Suff"olk, Norfolk, and elsewhere. My father was therefore greatly interested in 1870-84.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 43 St. Aignan, which he regarded as the pro bable spot from which his ancestor removed to England eight hundred years ago; he looked forward to his visit with eager antici pation, and was delighted when at last he found himself actually within the castle walls, the ancient home of his race. Other archaeological papers contributed by him include " Horseheath and the Alingtons ;" " Boxted and the Poleys ;" *' Playford and the Feltons ; " " Plea for a History of Suff"olk," an address delivered at the annual meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute, held at Bury St. Edmunds, in 1869; an address as President of the Royal Archaeological Insti tute at their annual meeting held at Taunton in 1879; and two addresses as President of the Somersetshire Archaeological Society, In 1873 and 1888. The Bishop was a member of the com mittee appointed by Convocation for the revision of the Scriptures, and joined the company of Old Testament revisers, which sat from 1870-1884; and in recognition of his services in the work of revision, the University of Oxford conferred on him the 44 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1870-84. honorary degree of D.D., in 1885. I have heard him say that he considered it a great honour to have taken part in three such important undertakings as the revision of the Scriptures, the Speaker's Commentary, and Dr. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible. The Committee of revision was threat ened with disruption in the very first year of its labours by an unfortunate misunderstand ing which arose. In February, 1870, a com mittee of both Houses of Convocation had presented a report on the desirableness of a revision of the Authorized "Version of the Holy Scriptures, and their report was adopted by both Houses. It consisted of five reso lutions, the fifth of which was as follows : " That it is desirable that Convocation should nominate a body of its own members to undertake the work of revision, who shall be at liberty to invite the co-operation of any eminent for scholarship, to whatsoever nation or religious body they may belong." Accord ingly, in the May following, eight Bishops, of whom the Bishop of Bath and Wells was one, were appointed to serve on the committee ; and the Prolocutor also nominated eight 1870-84.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 45 members of the Lower House. The com mittee subsequently divided itself into two companies, one for the revision of the Old Testament, and the other for that of the New. The committee also, at its first meet ing, decided to invite the co-operation of a large number of eminent Biblical scholars, belonging to various Christian denominations. Among the scholars thus Invited to join the New Testament Company was Dr. Vance Smith, a member of the Unitarian body, who accepted the invitation, and took his seat as a member of the company. No strong objection appears to have been raised to this at the time ; but when, soon afterwards, at the invitation of Dean Stanley, all the members of the two companies partook together of the Lord's Supper in West minster Abbey, a violent outcry was raised, and an agitation was set on foot against the presence of Dr. Vance Smith on the com mittee. The Bishop of Winchester (Wilber- force) had himself drawn up and proposed the fifth resolution, under which the com mittee very naturally considered themselves at liberty to invite Dr. Vance Smith to join 46 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1870-84. them. But at the Session of Convocation held in February, 1871, influenced apparently by the clamour which had arisen, he moved a resolution which practically rescinded the resolution which he had drawn up and him self moved a year before. His resolution was, " That it is the judgment of this House it is not expedient that any person who denies the Godhead of our Lord Jesus Christ should be invited to join either company to which is committed the revision of the Authorized Version of Holy Scripture ; and that it is further the judgment of this House that any such person, now In either company, shall cease to act therewith ; and that this resolution be communicated to the Lower House, and their concurrence required." In moving this resolution the Bishop of Win chester said that it had never occurred to him, when framing the original fifth resolu tion, that it would apply to the admission of any member of the Unitarian body. He intended, he said, that it should apply, so far as the Old Testament company was con cerned, to the Invitation of any eminent Hebrew scholars to take part in the revision ; 1870-84.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 47 and it did not occur to his mind that the resolution would ever be put in force for the purpose of giving such an invitation as this. He had no wish to exclude the assistance of men of all nations and of all religious bodies, with this one exception. The Bishop of Winchester's resolution was strongly opposed by several Bishops, and among them by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who said that he felt very deeply that the question was one of good faith, " By a resolution passed in this House we invited the co-operation of a number of persons, who have given It to us on a distinct basis, that of having respect to scholarship without regard to theological opinions. To depart from this now would not only be an act of bad faith, but a terrible affiront to members of the committee." This speech drew forth the following letter to the Bishop from Dr. Lightfoot, afterwards Bishop of Durham, in which he expresses his opinion of the matter in vigorous and uncom promising terms. "My dear Lord Bishop, " I hope you will not think me intrusive if I offer you my very sincere thanks for your 48 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1870-84. frank and honourable words in Convocation. I can hardly conceive anything more disastrous than the breach of faith of which the Upper House has been guilty. " The merits and demerits of the original reso lution do not affect the question. So far as I can see, the House was asked to repudiate a pledge, and it consented to do so. And, if the highest representative assembly of the Church — which ought to be the very type of all honour and truthfulness — stoops to an act so disgraceful, the prospect is gloomy indeed. "I know that I am not alone in entertaining these feelings of gratitude towards yourself and others, who have had the manliness not to sacrifice the honour of the Church to a popular outcry. " I am, my dear Lord Bishop, " Most gratefully yours, "J, B. Lightfoot. " Trinity College, "Feb. 15, 1871." The resolution moved by the Bishop of Winchester, after the previous question had been moved and rejected by nine votes to six, was carried by ten votes to four. But on the next day the following resolu tion, moved by the Bishop of St, David's, was carried unanimously : " That, notwith standing the restriction introduced into the fifth resolution, this House does not 1870-84.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 49 intend to give the slightest sanction or countenance to the opinion that the members of the revision companies ought to be guided by any other principle than the desire to bring the translation as near as they can to the sense of the original texts ; but, on the contrary, regard it as their duty to keep themselves as much as possible on their guard against any bias of preconceived opinions or theological tenets in the work of revision." In moving this resolution, the Bishop of St, David's announced that, in consequence of the carrying of the Bishop of Winchester's resolution on the previous day, and as a protest against it, he must resign his place on the Old Testament company. He also said that in his judgment the resolution which he now proposed was utterly inconsistent with that adopted the day before. Nevertheless, it was unanimously adopted, and ordered to be communicated to the Lower House. On the same day the resolution of the Upper House, moved by the Bishop of Winchester, came before the Lower House. It was duly moved and seconded ; but after K so LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1870-84. the previous question, moved in a speech of great earnestness and eloquence by the Dean of Westminster, had been rejected by forty votes to twenty, an amendment was carried as follows; "That their Lordships of the Upper House be respectfully requested to allow the Lower House to postpone giving its opinion on the resolution of the Upper House until the committee appointed in May, 1870, to report to Convocation a scheme of revision, shall have made its report thereon." Thereupon, the Upper House requested to be informed what was meant by the words "scheme of revision" in the resolution of the Lower House, The Prolocutor explained that by "scheme of revision " was meant the revised work itself. The Upper House granted the request of the Lower House ; four additional members of the latter were added at its request to the Committee ; and so the storm subsided, and the work of revision went peacefully for ward. But had the Lower House adopted the Bishop of Winchester's resolution as sent down by the Upper House, the result would probably have been that the whole work "W'aUceriBtnitallJTi.S c ,J//c y3jA/u-/L^ a/3(^cu/u w-'/ru/^. i888. /'lorn. a /i/i(t-/7>ri/iaAJi/Afu^ fyyilto-t^ ^/'^^/Arij^. I894-] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 51 would have ended in a fiasco. At all events the Revised Version would have been liable to be regarded as the work of theological partisans rather than of impartial scholars. In 1859 Lord Arthur Hervey was elected a corresponding member of the Massachu setts Historical Society, of which his friend, the Honourable Robert C. Winthrop, was president. In " Reminiscences of Foreign Travel," a fragment of autobiography pri vately printed in 1894, Mr. Winthrop writes : "Among my English friends and corre spondents there are none for whom I have felt a warmer personal regard than for Lord Arthur Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Before his elevation to the Episcopate, a quarter of a century ago. Lord Arthur held the family living of Ickworth, in Suffolk, and was for some years Archdeacon of Sudbury, Some of his lectures at the Bury Athenaeum, and some of his contributions to the pub lished proceedings of the Suff"olk Institute of Archaeology, bore testimony to his accom plishments and culture at that period. Since then, he has become widely known as the successful administrator of an important 52 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1894. diocese, as the author of charges to his clergy replete with dignity and wisdom, as an influential member of the Commission for revising the Holy Scriptures, and as the writer of a remarkable course of lectures upon the authenticity of St, Luke's Gospel. I have had repeated opportunities for appre ciating the charm of his domestic circle, both amid the pleasing rural scenery of Ickworth rectory, and the picturesque surroundings of the episcopal palace at Wells. It was while on a visit to him at Wells that I first met his neighbour, the historian Freeman." In politics Lord Arthur Hervey belonged to a party now extinct, which used to be known by the name of Peellte, or Liberal- Conservative, and which consisted of mode rate Conservatives of the school of Canning and Sir Robert Peel, who still followed the latter after the repeal of the corn-laws in 1846, when the bulk of his party disowned and deposed him. In theology he was a essentially a loyal English Churchman, of moderate views. He could hardly be called High or Low or 1894.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 53 Broad, though there were points in which he sympathized with the views of either of the parties so called. But he was strongly English and strongly Protestant. He be lieved in the position of the English Church as a true branch of the Christian Church. He never had entertained the slightest doubt as to the validity of that position. English in all his feelings, he had a great dislike to the introduction of what he considered mere imitations of the ritual of foreign services into our own. And a staunch and thorough Protestant, who was not ashamed of the name, who was not ashamed of but gloried in the Reformation, who believed that at and by means of the Reformation the English Church purified herself, by God's providence, of a number of corrupt and superstitious doctrines and practices, which formed no part of the original deposit of Christianity, but which had gradually sprung up and accumulated during ages of mediaeval darkness and ignorance — firmly convinced of all this, he could not but be sometimes grieved and distressed by the action of those whose main object In life seemed to him to S4 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1894. be to discredit and undo the work of the Reformation, to restore the idolatrous prac tices which it had discarded, and to reimpose upon the necks of the English people a yoke which their fathers had not been able to bear. At the same time, strongly as were all his sympathies enlisted on the side of Protestant Anglicanism, he was anxious to recognize the good that was in all men, and to maintain friendly relations with them, to whatever school of thought they might belong. And it may be confidently affirmed that, speaking generally, he was looked up to with respect by men of all parties and all Christian denominations in the diocese over which, for twenty-five years, he presided. The Bishop enjoyed a good story, and was fond of relating anecdotes which he had heard told in his youth. I cannot resist the temptation to record here one or two of his especial favourites. The first was of an aged labourer, who was one day missing, and whose body was found at the bottom of the well in the garden adjoining his cottage. Suspicions of foul play were entertained, and those suspicions 1894.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 55 pointed in the direction of a son, who did not bear the best of characters. The son was summoned as a witness at the inquest, and on being interrogated by the coroner, gave his theory of the way In which his father met his death. " Why, you see, sir," he explained, "they gets old, and then they gets blind, and then they walks into wells. Why, bless your heart, sir," he continued, warming into an almost enthusiastic conviction of the sound ness of his theory, " its the riglissest thing as is ! " Another appears to be a somewhat dlff"e- rent version of " the not getting any forrarder " story. A certain landowner, whose annual rent audit dinner was about to take place, suggested to his steward that wine should be provided for the tenants' consumption instead of spirits, which had hitherto been always supplied, with some undesirable results. But the suggestion was regarded by the steward as an utterly impragticable one. " Why, bless you, sir," he exclaimed in dismay, " they defies red port wine / " Another was an anecdote of a Duke of Devonshire and his brother who were travel- S6 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1894. ling together on the Continent, and was an illustration of the taciturnity for which the Cavendish family was remarkable. On one occasion they arrived at an hotel, where they had some difficulty in obtaining accommo dation for the night. However, after some delay, they were provided with a bedroom. The delay was caused by the fact that in the bedroom a man lay dead, and his body had first to be removed from the bed in which he had died and concealed under it. In the course of the following day the Duke said to his brother, " Brother, did you see the corpse ? " and the brother replied, " Yes," And this was all either of them was ever heard to say upon the subject, A favourite story was of a parishioner at Horringer, who had lately lost his wife. The wife had been twice married, and by her first husband had a daughter, a married woman, with whom the second husband had not been on the best of terms. This step daughter's husband was killed in London by an accident, and Lord Arthur called on the step-father, and urged him to show kindness to the poor woman who had lost both her 1894.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 57 husband and her mother. "Oh yes," he replied, " that I will, for my missis said to me afore she died, ' Ben, you must be kind to my daughter ; if you ain't, I'll come back to you ' — and I should be very loth to disturb her." It does not come within the scope of this brief record to describe or to dwell upon the charms of his personal character, or the aff'ec- tion he inspired in his domestic and social circle. It must suffice to say that he was one of those who adorn every relation of life, and who, the better they are known and understood, the more they are honoured and beloved. In person the Bishop was of middle height, and of active frame and habits. In youth he had been addicted to manly games and exercises, and, till quite a late period of his life, he was extremely fond both of riding and of driving, and was a bold horseman and charioteer, I remember that his sons when riding with him were wont to declare that they found it difficult to keep up with him, and many of his guests will also re member how he delighted, to the alarm of 58 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1894. some among them, to navigate an open photon and pair up and down the Mendip hills, and along all sorts of steep and rough and in places almost precipitous tracks, where no one else would have thought of attempting to mount or to descend on wheels. Nor did he ever lose his interest in the game of tennis. Long before lawn-tennis had come into fashion he had extemporized an outdoor tennis court on his lawn at Ickworth, and he continued to play an occasional game at Wells till he had long passed the age of seventy, never losing his style to the last. His manners were at the same time kindly and courteous, cordial and dignified. But what was most noticeable, I think, in his dealings with his fellow-men, was his evident and manifest anxiety always to deal justly with them. Whenever he had to decide any question that came before him, he always took the utmost pains to discover the true facts of the case, to ascertain what was right and just and according to law, and to decide accordingly. He possessed also a large 1894-] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 59 measure of self-control and self-command, and though of a sensitive disposition, and a man who felt deeply the infliction of any undeserved slight or wrong, and though readily moved to indignation by conduct which he deemed to be harsh or oppressive, or tainted with deception and duplicity, he was always able to restrain within due and reasonable limits any expression of his emotions. He had the advantage of pos sessing an even and well-balanced mind, and an accurate sense of the proportionate Importance of things ; and therefore he never either elevated trifles into matters of consequence, or dealt with really important matters as if they were of no concern. For the last three or four years of his life the bishop had been troubled by a gouty or rheumatic aff"ection of one of his knees, which caused him at times considerable pain, and at last deprived him of the power to walk more than a few steps at a time. But though this gave him the appearance of infirmity, he otherwise enjoyed good health ; nor was there ever apparent in him the least failure or diminution of mental power and 6o LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1894- activity. To the very last he took the same interest in things around him, in what was going on in the world, and in his special studies and pursuits. His conversation re mained as bright and as cheerful as ever, and though eighty-five years of age, he had, in face and outward aspect, save for his lameness, the appearance of being at least ten or fifteen years younger. At the end of May, 1894, the Bishop and Lady Arthur left Wells for a visit to their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoare, at Hackwood, near Basingstoke. On Monday, June 4, the Bishop showed symp toms of not being quite as well as usual, but he was downstairs every day till Friday, the 8th, when more serious symptoms appeared, and he retired to his bedroom about five o'clock. Soon after midnight he passed peacefully away. On the 14th he was buried at Wells, in the presence of a vast concourse of persons who had gathered to express their sense of the value of the life he had lived and the work he had done among them, and the grief with which the loss of him inspired them. Certainly he was one of i885.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 6i those who give of their best to the cause they serve ; who, whatever their hand finds to do, do it with their might; and who are "not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." 62 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1888. APPENDIX I. To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. My Lord Bishop, Will you kindly gratify the members of the Diocesan Boards, who so largely partake of the unbounded hospitality of the Palace, by accepting the sideboard now presented to your Lordship, as a united though very inadequate testimony of our grateful and affectionate respect and cordial appreciation of the uniform kindness which has ever so largely distinguished your Lordship's presidency over this diocese ? Permit us ever to remain, Your Lordship's faithful and attached Servants, Signed on behalf of the Board, William H. Walrond, Hon. Sec August, 1885. i888.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS, 63 APPENDIX II. To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. We the undersigned, on behalf of the Arch deacons, Rural Deans, and the Clergy of your Lordship's Diocese, are requested to convey to you their sincere and heartfelt congratulations on the attainment of the eightieth year of your age, and nineteenth year of your episcopate. With dutiful and affectionate respect, they would ask you to accept this very imperfect expression of their appreciation of the faithfulness, diligence, and fatherly kindness, which have uniformly characterized your administration of the diocese. We pray that your Lordship may still be spared in your present health and vigour to be our spiritual guide, counsellor, and friend, and that every blessing may continue to be vouchsafed to you for many years to come. We have the honour to remain, Your Lordship's faithful and devoted Servants, J. H. Stephenson, Chairman. J. W. Robinson, Hon. Sec. E. Arthur Salmon. James Coleman, Henry Roe. August, 1888. "64 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1888. The Bishop replied as follows : — Dear Brethren, The address read by Archdeacon Denison, and the magnificent birthday present of the clergy of the diocese, handed to me by him, have deeply stirred my inmost affections. To say I thank the clergy who have combined to show me such a mark of their friendly feeling, is a cold expression. Yet what more can I say ? I can but appreciate the friendship and brotherly love which has shined upon the new year of a long life, and tell you simply and truly how highly I value it We have been engaged fpr nearly twenty years in common work of the very highest kind which men can be engaged in ; we have sought to strengthen each other's hands in feeding ¦Christ's flock and building up Christ's Church ; we have laboured together in proclaiming God's truth, the very Gospel of His Grace, and it is perhaps natural that we should be united in brotherly love. But I could hardly have expected to receive such a touching testimony of your good-will as that which I have received to-day. If old age h5s its drawbacks in diminished powers and increasing infirmities, it certainly has full com pensation when it brings such an expression of undiminished confidence and affection as that -which my dear brethren have bestowed upon me to-day. As for the beautiful and costly episcopal ring which you have given me, I shall gather from it the comfortable assurance that my fellow-workers. 1888.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 65 in spite of manifold deficiencies and shortcomings, look upon my life and work as an honest endeavour on my part to do the work of a Bishop amongst them, and shall see in it a constant incentive to strive after a higher standard of pastoral efficiency and vigour. And as for the gift of money which accompanied it, presented in so generous a spirit, I hardly know how to express my sense of the truly delicate and considerate nature of their gift. By it you enable me to complete an object which I have greatly at heart for the good of the people of Wells, and you associate yourselves with me in carrying out that object to perfection. My brethren, I can only say once more, " I thank you," and prize very highly your love and affection. You have made the eighty-first year of my life very bright and happy in its dawn. Should it please God that my life should be prolonged to its close, may it be a happy one for us all in seeing our flocks thriving, our works prospering, righteousness and peace growing all around us, the Church which we serve becoming purer, stronger, holier, love abounding, and our country more penetrated through and through with the faith of the Gospel of Christ. August 20, 1888. 66 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1889, APPENDIX III. The Palace, Wells, Somerset, December 11, 1889. My DEAR Robinson, You were kind enough to interest your self a year and a half ago in the present made to me by the clergy of the diocese on my eightieth birthday. I should like to make it known to my brethren through you that, with the balance of ;^I72 5^. 10^., which, as you know, remained after paying for the very beautiful ring which was then given to me, I have been able to build one of the two cottages on the Recreation Ground at Wells. Thus not only has a most comfortable dwelling house been provided, but a permanent income has been secured to the Recreation Ground, which is adding so much to the healthy enjoyment at Wells. As a lasting record of this transaction, I have placed the following inscription over the entrance door of the cottage : " This cottage was built with a sum of money presented to the Bishop, together with an episcopal ring, by the clergy of the diocese, as a birthday gift, on his attaining the age of eighty on the 20th August, 1888." Believe me, most truly yours, Arthur C. Bath and Well^. The Rev. Prebendary Robinson, R.D. 1889.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 67 APPENDIX IV. To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Arthur Charles Hervey, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the Lady Arthur Hervey. We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Wells, in Common Council assembled, desire to offer to your Lordship and to Lady Arthur Hervey, our sincere and hearty congratu lations on the occasion of your Golden Wedding. Conscious of how much we owe to that Divine Providence which has permitted nearly twenty years of your Lordship's valuable life to be spent in our midst, we gratefully record our sense of the benefits which your Lordship's influence and liberality have secured for the City : and of the loving interest you have taken in all that could promote the comfort and welfare of the people. We pray that it may please Almighty God greatly to prolong a life so valuable to this City and Diocese : and that many years of continued happiness may still be vouchsafed to your Lord ship and to Lady Arthur. In testimony whereof, we the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens, have caused our Corporate Common Seal to be hereunto affixed, this thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. 68 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1889. APPENDIX V. To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Lord Arthur Charles Hervey, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. My Lord Bishop, We, the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Wells, desire to express to your Lordship our hearty congratulations on the attainment of your Golden Wedding Day. It is given but to few to be able to look back, as on a day of jubilee, upon fifty years of married life, which, if not without the sorrows and trials that are incident in the order of God's providence to all of us, have yet been marked throughout, by much joy and happiness, by duties loyally and faithfully discharged, by acts of kindness given and received, and by the unbroken continuity of the life of home. It is natural that we at such a time should look back chiefly upon the period, now of nearly twenty years' duration, during which your Lordship has filled the Cathedral of the Church of St. Andrew, Wells, and that, leaving others to speak of your work in its bearing on the Diocese at large, we should confine ourselves to the relations which have existed between your Lord ship and the members of our Cathedral body. Of those relations it will be enough to say that they 1889.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 69 have been marked on your Lordship's side by an ever-increasing kindness, and on ours by an ever- deepening feeling of reverence and affection. From first to last, we have been able to act, as of one heart and spirit, in the service of our Lord and Master, with no serious difference of opinion, if any, to disturb that unanimity. In matters which, in our Corporate capacity, we have had to refer to your Lordship's decision, or on which we desired to ask your counsel, we have, at all times, met with the fullest and most attentive consideration, and we have to acknowledge that much of the improvement which we recognize in our internal relations, and in the outer activities of our Cathedral, has been due to this fostering care. At the beginning of the present year we, like many others, were not without grave anxieties lest the illness which your Lordship was then suffering might deprive us, wholly or in part, of these blessings, and the gratitude with which we welcome your Lordship's restoration to health and strength is deepened by the keener sense of their value to which those anxieties gave rise. We heartily pray that it may be the will of our Heavenly Father to preserve you, and on this day, we must add, her who, we thank Him, is still with you, to be the sharer of your work for the good of others, for many years to come, with the " eye not dim, nor the natural force abated," and that the future may be as the past, and yet more abundant. Dated this thirtieth day of July, 1889. E. H. Plumptre, Dean. 70 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1889. APPENDIX VI. To the Right Honourable and Right Rev. Arthur Charles, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. My Lord Bishop, We the members of a Committee, repre senting, we believe, all sorts and conditions of men, women, and children, in the city of Wells and its immediate neighbourhood, desire to approach your Lordship with our heartiest congratulations and best wishes on your attaining your Golden Wedding Day. Those who represent the Ecclesiastical and Civil Corporations of our ancient city will, we doubt not, address your Lordship and speak of the relations in which you stand to them, and of the reasons which give to yourself and to Lady Arthur Hervey a high place in their affection and respect. We claim to speak not for these only, though they are, many of them, acting with us ; but for those who are not so represented. They, too, rejoice in your Lordship's joy, and give God thanks that He has preserved your life and that of Lady Arthur, to witness, as it is given to few to witness, the completion of fifty years of unbroken union, They are familiar with your 1889.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 71 Lordship's presence in our churches and streets. They have profited by the stimulus which you have given to all movements for the physical and spiritual elevation of those among whom you dwell. They value highly for themselves and those who shall come after them, the most recent benefit conferred on them, mainly through your Lordship's example and exertions, in the possession of the Jubilee Recreation Ground. And therefore, my Lord Bishop, we approach you in their name, not only to express their gratitude and good wishes, but to ask you another favour. We wish that we ourselves may see some true Effigy of your Lordship, as we have seen and loved you, placed in the Town Hall of our city as one of our greatest benefactors and worthy of most honour, and that future generations may thus learn to cherish, as we do, the memory of the Bishop to whom they owe so much, and be able to picture him to themselves as he went in and out among us. We therefore hope that your Lordship will kindly consent to meet our wishes by sitting for your portrait, at any time most convenient to yourself, to Mr. W. B, Richmond, A.R.A., whom, after care ful consideration of the claims of many artists, we have selected for this task. On behalf of the Committee, J. H. HOLLOWAY, Mayor, and Chairman of Committee. 72 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1889. APPENDIX VII. A GOLDEN WEDDING DAY. The Palace, Wells. July 30, 1889. Fifty summers bright and glowing, fifty, winters keen and cold, Bringing each its joys and sorrows, each its treasures new and old ; These ye now retrace in silence, as the shadows lengthenjt fast. And the silver now is golden, and the best days are the last. Then were hopes that have not failed you, love's great law not unfulfilled ; Then were pleasant ways of wisdom, warmth of heart years have not chilled. In your souls abiding ever, as from some serener clime. Echoes, neither faint nor distant, of the everlasting chime. Nor is now life's force abated, age has left undimmed your sight. And the vision opens wider, and at eventide is light ; Now ye reap the golden harvest, all to full completeness grown, And we own God's law accomplished, for ye reap as ye have sown. 1889.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 73 Boys have grown to stainless manhood, strong for no ignoble strife ; Daughters passed from girlhood's brightness on to woman's wider life ; Children's children gather round you, and their in&nt lips attest That the crowning joy of goodness is in blessing to be blest. And the flock of Christ rejoices that their shepherd still is theirs. Watching, feeding, guiding ever, sharing all their hopes and cares ; And they thank their Lord and Master, Christ, great Shepherd of the sheep. And they pray that He will ever His true servant bless and keep. Yes, the silver now is golden, and the sides are clear above, And the good wine flows unfailing, wine of joy and hope and love. Shadows, neither feint nor distant, of a nobler wedding feast. Where the King shall crown His chosen, and the Bridegroom be the Priest E. H. P. 74 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, [1880. APPENDIX VIII. REVERENDISSIMO IN CHRISTO DOMINO GULIELMO CROSSWELL, EPISCOFO ALBANIENSI Prsesul, ab occiduis gratissimus advena terris. Cum mare transieras littora nostra petens : Tempore quo Patres ecclesia sancta coegit, Ut plures animos jungeret unus amor : Accipe quae frater, toto te corde salutans, Effundit pro te vota, domoque tui. Sit tibi pax divina comes dum labitur annus, Sit mens perpetuo leeta, favente Deo. Dumque Dei populo Verbum solenne ministras,— Spiritus Omnipotens, auxiliare, precor ! Nee te, mi frater, solum mea vota sequuntur, Dum revoco qui jam prffiteriere dies. Congressus centum volvens sub mente virorum, Et cosnam Domini, Lambethiasque preces : Nee non permissas Wellensibus eedibus horas, Tarn cito prselapsas heu ! nimiumque breveS : Cogor in amplexu mentis cordisque tenere Quicquid apud se gens Americana tenet. Crescas eximii, gens Transatlantica, fama ! Imperium vigeat nobile, crescat honor ! Sis libertatis domus, exemplarque modest» Justitise, rectam semper adorta viam ! Prsecipufe, veluti quercus sublime patescens Florida sub grati pascua fronde tegit ; i88o.] BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 75 Conveniunt pecudes, seu perturbante procella, , Seu nimio Phoebus prata calore pWmit : "^^1 Sic tua frondentes per totam ecclesia terram / Exhibeat ramos, jugiter aucta magis ! Congressisque sacri largo sub teg^ine Templi Permaneat populis inviolata quies. Obscurata diu, sed non extincta, nee unquam, Dum vivat Christus, deperitura Fides, Mundanas superet divini luce tenebras ; Vivificetque animos spes bona, sanctus amor ! Nee minus interek, gratis tibi vincta catenis,, Stet super antiquas Anglia sacra vias, Depositoque nimis sublimi nomine matris. Sit tibi, communi nomine, cara soror. Atque ita, Concordes Sanctis conatibus ambae, Et pietate pares, unanimasque fide ; Quk vocat officium, quk signat gloria Christi, Concessas partes orbe in utroque gerant ! Donee in excelsis coeli regionibus, inter Sanctorum turmas, Angelicosque choros, Filius Omnipotens, tandem sua regna revelans, Fulget in jeterno, Patre jubente, throno. Dabam in Falatio Wellensi ineunie inense yanuario, anno salutis niillesimo, octingentesimo, octogesimo. A. C. B. & W. 76 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, APPENDIX IX. The following lines were found by me, having evidently been composed by my father during a visit to my house in the year 1887, and the rough copy left behind : — STEPS OF KNOWLEDGE. Whate'er the boundless universe contains Within the compass of its wide domains ; Whate'er the pen of each prophetic sage Has graved in wisdom's book from age to age, Is food for human mind. But there is higher knowledge than of these. For thee, O man, by inward grasp to seize. The knowledge of thyself, of thine own heart. And all that makes thee be whate'er thou art ; Who has it not is blind. But yet a higher peak of wisdom's heights Thine upward gaze, O child of man, invites. Know God, know Him who made thee, and who lives And living, knowledge, life, and all things gives. Who seeks to know shall find. Yet not from heav'n or earth or sea or skies Will the full splendour of His Godhead rise. But in the brightness of His dear Son's face, See all the glory of that wondrous grace. Which loves and saves mankind. BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. ^r LIST OF PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. Sermons for the Sundays and Principal Holy Days through out the Year. Preached in the Parish Churches of Ickworth and Horringer. 1850. The Genealogies of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Inspiration of Holy Scripture. Five Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge in the month of December, 1855. The Authenticity of St. Luke's Gospel. Five Lectures delivered at Bath, in 1890. The Books of the Chronicles in relation to the Pentateuch and the Higher Criticism. Five Lectures delivered at Wells, in 1892. About 150 Articles in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible. 1863. The Books of Judges, Ruth, and i and 2 Samuel in the Speaker's Commentary, vol. ii. 1872. r and 2 Kings and i and 2 Chronicles in the S.P.C.K. Commentary on the Old Testament, Historical Books. 1877. The Book of Judges, the Acts of the Apostles, the First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus in the Pulpit Commentary. 1884. Genesis and Exodus in the Pentateuch : Public School Text Books of Religious Instruction, edited by E. L. Cutts, D.D. 1895. Introduction of Lex Mosaica. By R. Valpy French. 1895 Charges to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Arch deaconry of Sudbury. 1862-8. Charges to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. 1870, 73, 76, 79, 82, 85, 88, 91, 94. 78 LORD ARTHUR HERVEY, PAMPHLETS. A few Hints on Infant Baptism. 1838. A Suggestion for supplying the Literary, Scientific and Mechanics' Institutes of Great Britain and Ireland with , Lecturers from the Universities. 1855. The Comparative Chronology of Sacred History, as set forth in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah, and Profane History. Reprinted from Part II. of the Transactions of the Chronological Institute. 1856. A Letter to the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Canon of Westminster, on the Declaration of the Clergy on Marriage and Divorce. 1857. Increase of the Episcopate. A letter to the Lord Bishop of Ely. 1866. A Contribution to the Settlement of the Burials Question. 1877. SERMONS. The Quarterly Sermon against the Errors of Popery. Preached in St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds. 1838. A Sermon in aid of the National School. Preached at the Tower Church, Ipswich, June 28, 1838, being the day after the Coronation of Her Majesty the Queen. A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of Ickworth, on Sunday, April 19, 1846, on occasion of the Public Thanks giving to Almighty God for the victories obtained over the Sikhs in the vicinity of the Sutlej. A Sermon preached at the Parish Church of Wickhambrook, on Sunday, October 31, 1847, being the Sunday after the funeral of Harriet, wife of the Rev. Charles Borton, Vicar of Wickhambrook. A Sermon preached in Ely Cathedral, at the Fifth Annual Diocesan Missionary Meeting, October 15, 1851. A Sermon preached in the chapel of Marlborough College, on the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. 1856. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Clare, on May 3, 1859, on the occasion of the opening of the new Parochial Schools. Ii BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS. 79 " Am I my brother's keeper ? " A Sermon preached at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, on behalf of the Burlington Charity School for Girls, on Sunday, March 25, i860. A Sermon preached on the occasion of the re-opening of Northhill Church, February 13, 1863. A Sermon preached at Stowlangtoft Church, on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, 1865, being the Sunday next after the funeral of the Rev. Samuel Ricitkrds, Rector of Stow- lantoft. The Sacrifice of the Death of Christ. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Ely, on Advent Sunday, 1865, at the Ordination held by Edward Harold, Lord Bishop of Ely. The Death of the Righteous. A Sermon preached at Horringer Church, on the Second Sunday after Easter, 1868, being the Sunday next after the funeral of General Sir James Simpson, G.C.B. The Rise of the Church of Christ an Evidence of His Resurrection. A Sermon preached at St. Stephen's Church, South Kensington. 1877. Mary Tudor. A Sermon preached at the Unveiling of the painted window, presented by the Queen to St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmund's, October 18, 1881. The Truth of Holy Scripture. A Sermon preached in Wells Cathedral, September 25, 1892. Our Church Schools. A Sermon preached at St. Thomas s Church, Wells, April 24, 1894. LECTURES. History. A Lecture delivered at the Mechanics' Institute, Bury St. Edmunds. 1852. The Jews — their Past History, their Present Condition, their Future Prospects. A Lecture delivered in London to the Church of England Young Men's Society for aiding Missions at Home and Abroad. 1854. Metaphysics. A Lecture delivered to the Bury Young Men's Institute. 8o LORD ARTHUR HERVEY. Ancient and Modern Knowledge compared. The Inaugural Lecture deUvered at the New Lecture Hall of the Athenaeum, Bury St. Edmunds, October 3, 1854. Lord Macaulay. A Lecture delivered in connection with the Bath Church of England Young Men's Society, at the Assembly Rooms, Bath, January 29, 1877. The Division of Labour. A Lecture delivered to the members of the Red Lion Club, October 3, 1883. Property. A Lecture delivered to the members of the Red Lion Club, Wells, October 18, 1884. Wages. A Lecture delivered to the Members of the Red Lion Club, February 3, 1886. History, Fiction, Poetry. A Paper read at a meeting of the Bath Literary and Philosophical Association, November 19, 1886. ARCH^OLOGICAL PAPERS. Ickworth Manor House. 1848. Sir Nicholas Hervey. Address to the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain, on their visit to Bury St. Edmunds. 1854. The Family of Hervey. 1856. Playford and the Feltons. i860. Boxted and the Poleys. 1859. Horseheath and the Alingtons. Plea for a History of Suffolk. 1869. An Address delivered as President of the Somersetshire Archaeological Society. 1873. Ditto. 1878. The Inaugural address to the annual meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute, held at Taunton. 1879. The Exodus. Easter Sunday, in Tracts for the Christian Seasons. 1S64. The Increase of the Episcopate in Principles at Stake. The Chronology of Ezra ii. and iv. 6-23, in the Expositor of June and July, 1893. The Sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt, in the Expositor of December, 1893. YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 9002 03720 0939 i^^ :¦ -V? - . ^ - . -,. ... - - ¦ •.!ft '?l55?i;v;i:|f^^ .:li-^'