We regret to record the death of Dr. Thorold, Bishop
of Winchester, who had filled the See of Rochester and had done much good there before he was raised to the Bishopric of Winchester. He died at Farnham Castle on Thursday morn- ing, having completed his seventieth year. In the earlier days of his episcopacy, while in the See of Rochester, he was the ablest representative of the evangelical party on the Bench. Later in life he showed much more sympathy with the High Church party, but he was no doubt in the main an evangelical to the last. He was a hard worker and a thoroughly religious man. While rector of St. Giles's-in-the- Fields, he did a great deal for the miserable district of St. Giles, and it was chiefly owing to his exertions that the baths and buildings at the top of Endell Street, which contributed so much to the cleanliness of the district, were completed. Later, as Bishop of Rochester, he did a great deal to evangelise
that very poidons,,andin, parts very miserable, diocese south of the Thainelk. And in* the great. See of "ithichtteter he was again a hard worker. He was not a great, but he was certainly a most earnest and most energetic, Bishop,—a Bishop of much more than average vigour and practical capacity.
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