3-028-714 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Right Rev. Lord Arthur Charles Hervey, D.D., Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins. The bishop '... has shown much painstaking industry in his work on the Genealogies of the New Testament, in his sermons before the University of Cambridge, and in his contributions to Dr. Smith's "Dictionary of the Bible," which were more abundant than those of any other of the scholars and divines employed in the compilation of that work. The soundness of his views on the most important articles of the Christian faith, his devotion as a parish priest, and his energy and skill as an Archdeacon in setting on foot and directing organisation for the promotion of Church work are recognised by the clergy of Suffolk...One of the local papers...remarks that "Few men...have more deserved such an elevation than our Archdeacon, and we know of none more capable, at this crisis of the Church of England, of being safely intrusted with Episcopal authority and rule".' From "Illustrated London News", 1870.