father to have written of the Tate" Rev. Willlem Darwent, whose death occurred 1857. He leit there in 1871 going to Haverhill where, according to his own account, there was a lack of the spirit of unity, many of the old members being High Calvinista, From Haverhill he went to Honiton Ju Devonshire where he only remained two he worked for 16 years, resigning from the regular ministry in 1898, Many of the friends of the late Rev. Charles Ewart Darwen, M.A, will have heard with regret of the passing away of his father, the Rev. William Darwent, of Bognor, Sussex. He had celebrated his 96ch birthday on July 17 by going for a moter drive to Slindon Woods and [Arundel, which are among the beauty
enjoyed exceedingly, being an ardent spot of Sonex. This ide he caietrer of naturer' The Have of his brilliant son of whose abilities he was very proud affected him a great deal, trid since receiving the sad news of his son's death his health had been failing.
'At the request of the secretary of the Shanghai Union Church he contemplating writing another of his annual hymns, which was to be sung fat the Union' Church, Shanghai 1926." Up toa few days before his death he retained all his intellectual faculties and powers, taking keen interest in the religious and political questions of the day. Although he Fetired from the regular ministry ju 1898, it was his custom to write 'a weekly sermon, and continued to deco until a few days before his decem William Darwent was born in Sheffield on July 17, 1880. Between the age of The Great Reform Bill During Mr. Darwent's life, which covered nearly a century, he had witnessed the effects of the Reform Bill of 1892; had seen the abolition of slavery; the abolition of the Corn Laws; the introduction of the penny Post; the Chinese, Crimean, South African and the great European wars; as well as the Franco-German war.' He had visited the Crystal [Palace Exhtbition in 1851 at Hyde Park, and saw the Duke of Wellington riding his horse near Marble Arch, London, and was present at the opening of the first railway from Sheffeld to Rotherham, He remembered the starting of tele. graphs and the beginning of the running of steamers. He attended meetings in his youth when" he heard such men as Bright, Cobden, Gladstone, Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Kossuth.
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