19 MAY 1967, Page 26

Sir: In his entertaining article 'Who gets the deanery?' (12

May) Professor Trevor-Roper re- calls that 'Before the war . . . there was a great controversy about the deanery of Christ Church, Oxford, which . . . is annexed to a college. It was thought, at the time, difficult if not impossible to find a clergyman of the established Church (at least in England) who could fulfil both functions.' This might be taken to imply that the Church of England is 'established' outside the country. But this is not so. The scholar appointed was from Canada. But the Church in Canada is not 'established.'