The sudden death of the Bishop of Truro will be
deeply deplored throughout Cornwall. Dr. Hunkin was a Cornish- man through and through, and having been the son of a Methodist lay preacher, and educated at a Methodist school, The Leys (I knew him as a schoolboy there), he had an un- usually broad sympathy with Christians of all denominations in his diocese. His success at Truro was the more marked in that, a Broad Churchman and much of an Evangelical himself, he was called on to succeed so pronounced an Anglo- Catholic as ,Dr. Frere. As is generally known, the Bishop was an enthusiastic amateur gardener. I once introduced him to a woman M.P. — and forthwith found myself cut out of the conversation, which touched on nothing but the rival flora of the garden at l3rynawelon at Criccieth Aid the garden at Lis Escop at Truro.
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