The Archive · 1938

Two English Bishops Die On Same Day

Rev. Taylor Smith at Sea, Dr. J. H. Grieg at Home SPECIAL TO THE "N.CD.N."

London, Mar. 28. The death of two Bishops occurred to-day.

Dr. J. H. Grieg, the first Bishop of the See of Guildford, formed in 1927, "and previously Bishop of Gibraltar, succumbed in a London nursing home at the age of 73.

Dr. Grieg took a very active part in preparations for the building of the new cathedral—only the third Anglican cathedral to be built in England since the Reformation—the foundation stone of which was laid at Guildford in the summer of 1936- The Rt. Rev. John Taylor Smith. former Bishop of Sierra Leone and Chaplain-General to the forces from 1908 to 1925, died suddenly at sea this morning on board the liner Orion.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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