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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[11 S. V. JAN. 13, 1912.

The house at Brighthelmstone mentioned above occupied the site upon which " The Albion Hotel " now stands. It may be of interest to your correspondent to know that a portrait of Dr. Russell, by Zoffany, belongs to the Brighton Corporation, and may be seen in the Brighton Public Art Gallery. A. CECIL PIPER.

Public Library, Brighton. [MB. JOHN PATCHING is also thanked for reply.]

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. iv. 507). The line quoted by MR. E. S. SHERSON,

Morning arises stormy and pale, is from Tennyson's ' Maud,' Part I. vi. 1. EDWARD BENSLY.

BISHOPS ADDRESSED AS "MY LORD " (11 S. iv. 508). This question was suffi- ciently answered in ' N. & Q.' in 1898, to which year OUTIS is referred. He makes a mistake in his statement about the Duke of Buckingham and the Bishop of Calcutta. If he will refer to the East India Company's public dispatch to the Governments of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, dated 29 July, 1814, par. 2, he will find that it contains two warrants issued by H.R.H. the Prince Regent :

1. Of Rank and Honour, dated 25 May, 1814, ordering that the Bishop of Calcutta and his successors be styled and called Lord Bishop of Calcutta.

2. Of Precedence, dated 31 May, 1814.

The Duke of Buckingham inquired if a similar warrant of rank and honour had been issued when the Bishopric of Madras was founded ; and finding that it had not, he did what OUTIS states. The courtesy title has now been restored by authority.

FRANK PENNY.

OUTIS should see what has been said at 9 S. i. 230. If the title be restricted to peers of Parliament, what becomes of such Scottish and Irish nobles as are not representative peers ? Why should there be any jealousy of bishops being lords, when we have lord- lieutenants, lord mayors, lords of manors, and many such ? Let me refer to Dr. George Hickes's ' Treatise on the Dignity of the Episcopal Order' (Ang. Cath. Lib.), 4th ed., 1847, ii. 372, sg., 'Instances of Bishops being called Lords in the Ancient Church.' W. C. B.

It is held by many that by the act of con- secration a bishop becomes a spiritual peer. If this be so, then a bishop suffragan is entitled to be addressed as " My Lord.'"

The question has long had some interest 'or me, and I find I have a note, from some authority which I cannot at the moment verify, to the effect that

" the title ' Lord ' is extended by right or courtesy to bishops of the Church of England and Colonial bishops, out not to bishops suffragan, missionary or Scottish or Irish prelates, at least as an undisputed ight."

The editor of Crockford, who must be iounted an authority, invariably gives to bishops suffragan the title " Lord Bishop

Suffragan of " ; and a few years ago,

in his annual Preface, discussed the claim, of suffragans to the title, and gave his decision in their favour.

OUTIS quotes the Duke of Buckingham as holding that only peers of Parliament are entitled to the distinction of being addressed as " My Lord." I presume he meant spiritual peers. But the Bishop of Sodor and Man is not a peer of Parliament, yet he is Lord Bishop of those united dioceses. If the Duke really meant what is stated by OUTIS, he was, of course, speaking very un- advisedly. Those peers of Scotland and of Ireland, for example, who are not representa- tive peers, are not peers of Parliament, but are certainly entitled by right to be addressed as " My Lords." On the other hand, there are lords of Parliament who are not peers the Lords of Appeal, for instance, who have the right to a writ of summons while in office only, though they are barons for life. F. A. RUSSELL.

Some years ago Crockford published in the ' Clerical Directory ' a letter received from the then Home Secretary, Mr. Mathews, stating that suffragan bishops were entitled to be addressed as " My Lord."

S. D. C.

LORD TILNEY OR TYLNEY (US. iv. 508). The second Earl Tilney was the grandson of the first earl, and succeeded to the estate and mansion at Wanstead. He lived a great many years in Italy, his continued absence from his home giving rise to much comment. A writer of the period said

" that so magnificent a palace should not be left to a handful of servants, and that as Lord Tilney had no heirs, he hoped that ere long the estate would pass into the hands of some other family who would prefer English freedom to Italian slavery." ' The Story of Wanstead Park,' by O. S. Dawson.

The writer does not charge Lord Tilney with any misdeed, and it would appear that he simply had a preference for residing in Italy rather than in England. G. H. W.