We have to record with much regret the death after
a brief illness of Dr. Paget, the Bishop of Oxford, the second of the four sons—all distinguished in different ways—of the late Sir James Paget. Dr. Paget, who was a brilliant classical scholar and a learned theologian, had been successively a college tutor, a parish priest, professor, Canon and Dean of Christ Church, before succeeding Bishop Stubbs in 1901. Intimately associated with the group of writers who brought out "Lux Mundi," to which he contributed, his Anglicanism was that of a progressive thinker, not of a narrow ritualist. Dr. Paget inherited from his father his strong sense cf duty, his capacity for hard work, and his remarkable gifts as a public speaker. It is worthy of note that his last public utterance in his Diocesan magazine took the form of a weighty protest against a recent display of lawlessness in the House of Commons.
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