- A larger number of Chnrchmen anxious for a settlement
of the education controversy on reasonable, and moderate lines would have been present hut for the fact that the deputation was organised at very short notice. Letters regretting their inability to attend, but expressing their approval of the objects of the deputation, were received from a large number of persons, among whom were Sir Thomas Acland (chairman of the Devon Education Committee), the Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, the Rector of -Exeter College, Oxford, the President of Trinity College, Oxford, the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Professor Percy Gardner, Sir Arthur Clay, Sir Charles Elliott, Mr. T. C. Horsfall, Mr. Edward Buxton (chairman of the Essex Education Committee), Mr. Lee Warner (chairman of the Norfolk Education Committee), Mr. T. E. Page (of Charterhouse,) Mr. A. C. Benson, and Mr. William Temple. It should be mentioned that no Members of either House of Parliament were invited to attend the deputation, as it was felt that they must be considered as combatants. The object of the deputation was to represent to the Archbishop the ardent desire for a national settlement felt by Churchmen who were not engaged at first hand in the controversy.
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