Bishop Jacobson has not long survived his retirement from the
See of Chester. He died at the palace at Chester at 6 o'clock last Sunday morning. Brought up as a Dissenter at Homerton College, under the teaching of Dr. Pye-Smith, he soon found himself out of sympathy with the Dissenters, and entered the Church of. England, where he distinguished himself for his scholarship and his mastery of patristic learning. Controversy of any kind he avoided and detested, so that a great many quaint sayings are recorded, illustrative of his skill in evading anything like a polemical opinion. To men who, like the late Frederick Denison Maurice, were eager to find a larger principle of unity beneath the diversities of theological opinion, he was a warm friend, but one perhaps even too much disposed to believe that the truth of one assertion does not necessarily imply the falsehood of its contradictory. The Bishop administered his Chester diocese well, and inspired the warmest friendship in a number of minds, without making a single enemy. He was emphatically a man of peace, though perhaps even too much indisposed for conflict to be a successful peace-maker.
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