Bishopstowe (1845)

Trewman's Exeter flying post. Vol CVII, no. 5,388. Exeter, Wednesday, September, 22, 1869.Henry of Exeter.It was our duty last week to announce the resignation of the venerable and distinguished divine who has so long held the See of Exeter. To-day it is our lot to announce his death. He died at Bishopstowe on Saturday afternoon, in the 92nd year of his age, having held the bishopric for the lengthened period of thirty-nine years. […] Whatever may be their private opinions, and whatever their tastes and predilections in matters of religion, we agree with the Times, that few of our readers will be bold enough to deny that the Bishop who has just passed away was a very remarkable prelate. […] [FROM THE TIMES]As the leaf is beginning to fall, and before he could carry out his proposed resignation, Henry Phillpots drops into his grave carrying with him three generations of work and warfare, several hundred controversies, much that is remembered and much more that is forgotten, and no inconsiderable amount of respect and even affection. […] He long survived, and, no doubt, learnt to regard with generous kindness the foes he resisted, or provoked, the cases he denounced, the statesmen he defied, the clergy that rebelled against his discipline, the Primate he excommunicated, the writers that lived by abusing him, and the Lords that would not listen to his harangues. […]When Dr. Philpotts, puts forth in sermons and charges the exclusive pretensions which had charmed the readers of his early pamphlets, they roused a nest of hornets that would have embittered his life and shortened it but for the pleasure he took in stinging the hornets in return. It was not a pleasant or seemly conflict, but it lasted many years, and the public took it as a matter of course. Henry of Exeter was one of the personages of the day, and only did what everybody expected of him, though sometimes a little in excess of himself.[Bishopstowe was built in 1841, and Henry Philpotts, Lord Bishop of Exeter, lived here until his death in 1869. On the bottom of this print, someone has written in pencil Bishop of Exeter's countryseat, about a mile from Torquay - on the Babbicombe road. He is much hated here.][Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]

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