Dr. Monk, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, who had long
been suffering from partial blindness and physical prostration, died yesterday, at the Epis- copal Palace, Stapleton ; aged seventy-two. He was the son of Mr. Charles Monk, an officer in the Forty-ninth Regiment. Educated at Norwich and the Charterhouse, and elected Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he became at five-and-twenty the successor of Person in the Regius Professorship of Greek. In 1822, Lord Liverpool made Dr. Monk Dean of Peterborough; in 1830, the Duke of Wellington promoted him to the Bishopric of Glou- cester, on the translation of Dr. 'Bethel from that, diocese to Bangor; in 1836, Dr. Allen was translated from Bristol to Ely, and the sees of Bristol and Gloucester were amalgamated. In polities Dr. Monk voted with the Tories, and irk ecclesiastical matters rather took part with the High Church- men. To all works of charity he contributed largely, and for ninny years regularly devoted a tithe of his income to the augmentation of small livings in his diocese. He also contributed considerable sums towards the restora- tion of churches, the building of parsonages, and of parochial and diocesan schools.
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