CHURCH APPOINTMENTS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Hugh Cecil has a good case. He regards as indeferto sible a system which allows a Prime Minister, who is not a member of the Church of England, to nominate Bishops for election to vacant sees. He does not doubt, nor do I, that our Prime Minister in his nominations is consulting the truest welfare of the English Church. And it may be of interest to know that the appointment of Canon Hicks to the see of Lincoln in 1910 was due to the instigation of a Unitarian—Mr. C. P. Scott, the Editor of the Manchester Guardian, a pupil of Hicks (as was I, in old days at Corpus), had opportunities of observing Canon Hicks' devoted work in the slums of Salford. Scott once told me that, when Bishop King died, he v.trote to. Asquith, saying—Hicks' promotion has been too long delayed, if you do not recommend him to this vacant see, Manchester will have no more use for you.—Yours faithfully, G. B. Vaux. Odiham, Hampshire.
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