Dr. Jex Blake is to succeed the late Dean Plumptre
in the Deanery of Wells. He did good service at Rugby in the interval between the regime of Dr. Hayman and the regime of the present head-master, Mr. Percival. Lord Salisbury has also designated Canon Creighton to be the new Bishop of Peterborough, in succession to Bishop Magee, translated to the Archbishopric of York. Canon Creighton has done excellent work in his History of the Popes contemporary with the Reformation, a History in which he has, we believe, shown conspicuous ability and iinpartiality. At Cambridge he has long been a favourite lecturer, and if he has fair powers as an administrator, he will make a distinguished Bishop. He will probably gain for both his Universities,—for he was educated at Oxford, though he has been made a lecturer at Cambridge, similar though not quite the same kind of credit on the Bench of Bishops, which Bishop Stubbs has gained for Oxf,ord by historical insight and judgment.
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