THE LATE DR. SEWELL.
[To TIER EDITOR OF THE " SP ROTATOR."] Sin,—In the Standard's obituary notice of the Rev. Dr. Sewell, late Warden of New College, Oxford, occur the words: "Sewell was ordained priest in 1835, but he seems never to have taken active clerical duty." Dr. Sewell's parochial ex- periences may not have been long, but such as they were they were interesting, if only from their old-world character. He, with the Rev. W. H. Bigg-Wither, late rector of Hardwicke, in Buckinghamshire, well known ten to fifteen years ago to New College men at the annual College Gaudy, where he invariably returned thanks for old Wykehamists, went •down from Oxford together to be fellow-curates to the Rev. Gilbert Wall Heathcote, dim Bursar of Wincheiter College, who was
Keble's predecessor as vicar of Hursley, near Winchester. Dr. Sewell stayed six months ; Mr. Bigg-Wither thirty-six years. My authority is my cousin, Mr. Bigg-Wither. Their vicar died in 1893, aged eighty-seven ; Mr. Bigg-Wither in 1899, aged ninety ; Dr. Sewell in 1903, aged ninety-two.—!
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