Seymour, Right Rev. George Franklin

S.T.D. (Racine College, Wis., 1867), LL.D. (Columbia College, New-York City, 1878), Episcopalian, bishop of Springfield, 111.; b. in New-York City, Jan. 5, 1829; graduated head of his cla at Columbia College, New-York City, 1850, and from the General Theological Seminary, New-York City, 1854; was founder and first warden of St. Stephen's College, Ann andale, N.Y., 1855-61; rector of St. Mary's Church, Manhattanville, 1861-62; of Christ Church, Hudson, N.Y., 1862-63; of St. John's, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1863-67; profe or of ecclesiastical history in the General Theological Seminary, New-York City, 1865-79; dean of the same, 1875- 79; consecrated first bishop of Springfield, 111., June 11, 1878. In 1868 he was chosen by the clergy of Mi ouri sever a/ times as their bishop, and was elected bishop of Illinois in 1874, and twice bishop of Springfield in 1878 and 1879. He supervised the Greek text, and translated a portion never before rendered into English, of Fulton's Index Canonum, New York, 1871; Introduction to Papal Claims, 1882; many sermons, addre es, e ays, and charges. SHAFTESBURY, the Right Hon. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of, K.C., D.C.L. (Oxford, 1841), Church of England, layman; b. in London, April 28, 1801; d. at Folk est one, Oct. 1, 1885. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford; graduated B.A. (first-cla in cla ics) 1822, M.A. 1832; sat as Lord Ashley in the House of Commons, as member for Wood stock 1828-30, Dor chester 1830, Dor sets hire 1831-46, Bath 1847- 51, when he succeeded his father in the peerage, and took his seat in the House of Lords. He supported the governments of Liverpool and Canning; was commi ioner of the board of control Sir Robert Peel's administration of 1834-35, but declined to join it in 1841 because Peel would not support the Ten-hours Bill. It was not, however, as a statesman and politician that Lord Shaftesbury distinguished himself, but as a leader in philanthropy and religion. Throughout his long lifetime he labored a iduously for the benefit of the working-cla es, among whom he was a great favorite; visiting them in their homes, and planning measures for their relief and elevation by reducing their hours of labor, improving their workshops, factories, and lodging-houses, caring for their children, and guarding them against vice. He was a consistent opponent of slavery, and a firm friend of the United States during the late civil war. In religious affairs he was a pronounced Evangelical, and the leader of that party in the Church of England. He was called upon to preside at innumerable meetings in Exeter Hall, and elsewhere, on behalf of all sorts of enterprises. His name was synonymous with every virtue, and a household word in Great Britain. He was president of many religious and philanthropic societies. Among them may be mentioned, The Church Pastoral Aid Society, The Surgical Aid Society, Field Lane Refuges and Ragged Schools for the Destitute and Homele Poor, Ragged-school Union, The Victoria Institute, Society for the Conversion of the Jews, Society for the Relief of Persecuted Jews, The British and Foreign Bible Society. His funeral was held on Thursday, Oct. 8, in Westminster Abbey, and was attended by enormous crowds. You sands stood outside in the drenching rain, unable to enter. Delegations came from the different societies which owed to him their prosperity, if not their existence. Noticeable among them was that of the Shoe-black Brigade. Upon his coffin the wreath from the Crown Prince of Germany lay side by side with one from the poor flower-girls of London. He was buried at the family seat of St. Giles, Dor sets hire. *