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94 BYE-GONES. May 27, 1891. Ashley Place, London, on Wednesday, the officiating clergy being the Rev Canon Whittington, rector of Orsett, and the Hon and Rev J. S. Northcote, vicar of St. Andrews. The Treeonest Colliery. — The existence of the last of the local collieries around Oswestry has now been drawn to a close. Trefonen Colliery, near Oswestry, has been in full work up to quite recently, but owing probably to the abundant inflow of water that had to be contended with, work was stopped, and on Thursday Messrs Williams and Nicholson, auctioneers, of Oswestry, put up for sale by auction the whole of the fixed and loose plant and machinery. The Late Mr. William Lort. — On Saturday the death took place at Vaynol Park, Bangor, of Mr William Lort, who was very well known as a judge of sporting dogs, as a breeder of pointers and setters, and as one of the founders of the National Dog Show, held at Curzon Hall, Birmingham. For many years Mr Lort lived at The Cotteridge, King's Norton ; in 1874 he removed to Yockleton Hall Shrewsbury, and subsequently to Fron Goch, Mont¬ gomeryshire, and to Vaynol Park, Bangor, where he acted as private secretary to Mr Assheton Smith. Mr Lort was sixty seven. It was only on Whit Monday that the Ven. John Evans, M.A., finished his annual Visitation at Llanid¬ loes, but during his Visitation, when the weather was very cold, he contracted influenza, upon which pneumonia supervened, and the Archdeacon suc¬ cumbed at seven on Sunday morning at the Canonry at Bangor. As an antiquary, the Archdeacon was well known, and his accounts of Pentrevoelas and Yspytty Ifan parishes are masterpieces of parochial history. The ven. gentleman, who was the eldest son of the late Mr John Evans of Tynycoed, by Ann, the daughter of Mr John Owen, of Craf- nant, in Merionethshire, began his career as a solicitor, and served his apprenticeship with Mr David Williams, late M.P. for "v!erionethshire, but he abandoned the law and took his degree at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1841, in which year he was ordained by Bishop Bethell of Bangor. After holding a curacy, he was appointed perpetual curate of Pentrevoelas, and in 1857 he was preferred to the rectory of Machynlleth. He was next pre¬ sented to the rectory of Llanllechid, where he remained twenty-six years, and in 1888 he became rector of Aber, which benefice he held at the time of his death. THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD APPOINTED ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. The Queen has been pleased to approve the nomi¬ nation of Dr Maclagan, Bishop of Lichfield, to the Archbishopric of York. Dr Maclagan's father was a distinguished medical officer, and after serving in the Peninsular War he settled in Edinburgh, where the new Archbishop was born in 1826. His elder brother is Sir Douglas Maclagan, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Public Health at Edin¬ burgh University, and another brother is a minister in the Established Church of Scotland. Archbishop began life in the army, i, but at the expiration of four The new and served in India, years—in 1852—he retired with the rank of lieu¬ tenant, and studied for holy orders. He entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, and having graduated was ordained in 1856. His clerical experience was gained chiefly in London, and after holding curacies there he was appointed by Lord Hatherley, then Lord Chancellor, to the living of St. Mary's, New- ington, being transferred to St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, six years later. He held this living for three years, and in 1878, on the death of Bishop Selwyn, he was elevated to the bishopric of Lich¬ field. Dr Maclagan is a High Churchman with broad and liberal sympathies, and it will be remem¬ bered that last year he entertained at Bishopstowe a large number of Nonconformist ministers. The Archbishop married in 1878, as his second wife, the Hon. Augusta Barrington, sister to Viscount Barrington. The Hon. Mrs Maclagan has taken an active part in all Church work within the Diocese, and has particularly interested herself in the Girls' Friendly Society and the Mothers' Union, of which she is president. %hz gate 3t\). gohn Slojb, oi QL&stzll Jfortopn. We regret to record the death, which took place yesterday week, of the Rev John Lloyd, of Castell Forwyn, Abermule. Mr Lloyd was the fourth son of the late John Lloyd, Esq., by Anne, daughter of Richard Jones, Esq., of Kingcoed, and having been born on May 10, 1810, he had just completed his eighty-first year. In early life lie went to school at Bridgnorth under Dr Rowley, and in 1829 he went to Cambridge, entering at Emmanuel College. He graduated as Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1832, and he proceeded to the degree of M. A. in 1835. His collegiate career was a distinguished one, and his College elected him to a Fellowship, an honour which he declined. At Cambridge his contem¬ poraries included Charles Darwin, the Rev R. J. Harrison, of Caerhowel, Mr John Buckley Wil- liames, of Glyn Cogen, and the Rev R. M. White, of Churchstoke, the last being now the only survivor of the band. Mr Lloyd was ordained deacon in 1836, and priest in 1837, and in 1844 he became rector of Llanmerewig, a benefice he held until 1878. Mr Lloyd, who was on the com¬ mission of the peace for Montgomeryshire for some fifty (years, married Marianne, only child of the late Edward Davies, Esq., of Rhyd- whiman, and leaves three sons and a daughter :— William Llewelyn, head of the firm of David Lloyd and Co. of London, John Maurice Edward, of Lincoln's Inn, a barrister, Reginald Ernest, of Castle Forwyn, and Mrs Welch, widow of Captain Welch of Marlow, a descendant of John Hampden. In recent years Mr Lloyd has devoted himself to the discharge of his duties as a landowner, and he has always shown himself most considerate of the com¬ fort and well-being of his tenants of all grades. In politics he was a Conservative, and a few years ago was constant in his attendance at political gather¬ ings. Having an hereditary connection with the borough of Montgomery as a burgess, Mr Lloyd several times served the office of High Bailiff under