The expected death of the Bishop of Llandaff took place
at Hardwick House, the episcopal residence, near Chepstow, on Sunday afternoon.
Edward Copleston was the son of the Reverend John Radford Copleston, Pre- bendary of Exeter; representative of a family which, by the records of its landed possessions in the county of Devon, traced its ancestry to times anterior to the Norman Conquest. The deceased was born in 1776, and was educated at home. Immediately after his entry at Corpus Christi College Oxford, at the age of fifteen, be commenced a career of academical distinction remarkable and almost unprece- dented. In 1795, without being a candidate, he was chosen a Fellow of Oriel College, before a long list of distinguished candidates; • in 1797 he was appointed College tutor, before he had attained his degree of MA.; and in 18141e was chosen to fill the vacancy in the Provostship of his College, before he had obtained hiadegree of D.D. His degree of D.D. was shortly afterwards conferred on him as an unusual distinction. Dr. Copleston took a position of mark in general lite- rature. By his satirical tract, "Advice to a Young its-viewer," a pretended tri- tique of "Mr. Milton's Allegro," in the true Gifford style, he gave the first turn against the ctushing influence of the Quarterk Review and its fellows. Seeking some distinction in the political world, he drew public attention upon himself by the publication of two letters to Mr. Peel (now Sir Robert) on the Currency gams. tion ; which were much read. In 1826 he was installed in the Deanery of Carlisle-
, and an December 1827 he succeeded Dr. Sumner the present Bishop of Winches- ter, as incumbent of the See of Llaodaff and the Deanery of St. Paul's. But, though a member of the House of Lords for more than twenty years henever be- came a prominent speaker, or took an active part in public affairs. Dr. Copleston was unmarried. '
The vacant see will be subject to new regulations. It was hitherto, from its slender revenue, always held with the Deanery of St. Paul's. The re- venue will now be raised to 4,0001.; and the Deanery, though with a re- duced revenue' will not be held jointly with it. The Bishopric is of course at the disposal of Ministers; the Deanery will be in the gift of the Bishop of London.
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