3 SEPTEMBER 1904, Page 3

We regret to have to record the deaths of Dr.

Ridding, Bishop of Southwell, and of Dean Hole, of Rochester. Dr. Ridding had been for eighteen years the successful Head- Master of Winchester before he was appointed in 1884 to the newly created See of Southwell, where, by his high character, his administrative abilities, and his conciliatory temper, he earned the respect of all and the affection of many. It is noted as a curious fact that although he was a fine classical scholar, his English was often extremely difficult to under- stand. Dean Hole, who passed away at the ripe age of eighty-four, was a singularly genial ecclesiastic, the sayer and retailer of innumerable good things, and a first-rate authority on the cultivation of the rose.

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