11 OCTOBER 1946, Page 5

I am sorry to learn that the Bishop of Gibraltar

(the Right Rev. Harold Buxton) is retiring from that office at the end of the year on medical advice—on medical advice, indeed, which has for some little time been disregarded. Dr Buxton took charge of this remarkable diocese—stretching from Estoril in Portugal to Ankara in Turkey— in 5933, and he has been tireless in his perpetual travels from one end of it to the other. He was in Malta (contrary, this time, to military advice) during some of the worst of the blitzes, and is at present particularly interested in the restoration of St. Paul's Cathedral there, towards which readers of The Spectator have made a special contribution, for the construction of the Shrine of Remembrance.