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Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.

Age 20.
From a Daguerreotype.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,

Born 1829.


T {{uc|he Most Rev. Edward White Benson, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury, born near Birmingham, and educated there and at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became scholar and fellow, was for some years an assistant-master at Rugby, and was appointed first head-master of Wellington College in 1858, continuing to hold the position till 1872, when he became Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral. Towards the end of 1876, at the recommendation of Lord Beaconsfield, he was appointed to the newly-created Bishopric of Truro, where he displayed great energy of organization, and in collecting subscriptions for the proposed new cathedral. In December, 1882, at Mr. Gladstone's recommendation, he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury after the death of Dr. Tait. He has published several volumes of sermons preached in Wellington College and elsewhere. His ecclesiastical policy has been marked rather by energy of social reform and general conciliation than by controversial theology, the Archbishop being himself attached to the Liberal High-Church party.

Age 40.
From a Photo. by Mayall, Brighton.

{{c|{{smaller block|PRESENT DAY.
From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry.

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