The Archive · 1940

London, Dee. 2

The resignation of the Rt. Rev. F. Norris, Bishop of North Chin: deen accepted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Rev. T. A. Scott, present Bishop of Shantung, has been appointed to succeed him.

One of the best known figures in North China, the Rt. Rev, Francis Lushington Norvis is 75 years of og Ordained in 1887, he spent two years as a curate at Tewkesbury, Gloucesters hire, and went to Peking as an S.P.G. missionary in 1889. He is one of the few survivors of the Legation siege during the Boxer uprising. haz been Bishop of North China since The Rt, Rev. Thomas Arnold Scott has been Bishop of Shantung since 1921. He came to North China as an G. missionary in 1908, and was appointed Principal of the Church of England School, Peking, in 1913—Reuter.

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

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