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wit—and became successively Sub-Warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond; Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School; and Principal of Cheltenham College. Then came the more strictly clerical experience. For four years he was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and for ten years Canon of Worcester, during five of which he was also Hon. Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen, and for three, Boyle Lecturer. Moreover, for fifteen years, commencing in 1868, he was Principal of his old London College (King's). In 1879 he had progressed from the honorary position to that of Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen, and continued so to serve her late Majesty when, in 1881, he migrated from Worcester to a Canonry at Westminster. Three years later he was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Bishop of Sydney, Metropolitan of New South Wales, and Primate of Australia, with jurisdiction over something like 8,000 square miles. On Bishop Barry's return to Great Britain, in 1889, he became assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Rochester, Bampton Lecturer at Oxford, and Hulsean at Cambridge. In 1891 he was appointed Canon of Windsor, and in 1895 Rector of St James', Piccadilly. Under Dr Temple he occasionally rendered Episcopal assistance; but Bishop Barry's commission as assistant Bishop of London really issued from Dr Creighton, and in 1900 he retired from the Rectory of St James' in order to take up