The Bishop of Chester (Dr. Jacobson) has expressed his wish
to resign the active work of his diocese, and to retire, under the provisions of "The Bishops Resignation Act, 1869." Dr. Jacobson is in his eighty-first year, and has held the See of Cheater for nineteen years. He was, like the late Frederick Denison Maurice to whom he was a cordial friend, brought up amongst the Dissenters, and received the first part of his theo- logical education at the Homerton College. Thence he went to Lincoln College, Oxford, was Vice-Principal of Magdalen Hall from 1832 to 1848, and became Regius Professor of Divinity in that year. In 1865, he supported Mr. Gladstone's candidature at Oxford, without success, and was by Lord Russell made Bishop of Chester. It was Dr. Jacobson of whose great kind- ness of nature the late Bishop of Winchester (Dr. Wilberforce) spoke so epigrammatically, when he said, after being introduced. to him, that though he had often beard of the milk of human kindness, he had never till then seen the cow.
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