• It is with great regret that we record the
death of the Bishop of Limerick, which took place in Dublin on Monday. The Bishop was in his eighty-seventh year. Dr. Graves, besides being a wise and liberal-minded Bishop, and deeply respected in his own diocese, was a scholar of no small eminence. His career at Trinity College was extremely distinguished, for he was equally proficient as a mathematician, a classical scholar, and a student of divinity. There are not many men of whom it could be said that they had been in turn Assistant-Professor of Greek, Professor of Mathematics, and Assistant to the Divinity Lecturer. But this was not all, for the Bishop also
interested himself greatly in Celtic literature, and did a great deal to encourage its study. He was made a Bishop in 1866, — i.e., foal- years before the Disestablishment of the Irish Church. Though of late a growing feebleness made it impossible for the Bishop to do much active work, he will be greatly missed by his colleagues. His influence in the Irish Church was always exerted on the side of wisdom and moderation.
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