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Davidson (RANDALL THOMAS Archbishop)

RANDALL THOMAS, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was born in 1848, and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford. He was curate of Dartford, Kent, 1874-1877; chaplain and private secretary to Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, 1877-1882; to Archbishop Berson, 1882-1883; examining chaplain to Bishop Lightfoot of Durham, 1881-1883; sub-almoner to Queen Victoria, 1882; one of the six preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, mestic chaplain to Queen Victoria 1883- 1880-1883; Dean of Windsor and do- 1891; Clerk of the Closet to Queen Victoria, 189 1901-1903. In 1891 he became bishop of Rochester and continued in that position till 1895. He was bishop of Winchester, 1895-1903. In this last year he became archbishop of Canterbury. He has been trustee of the British Museum from 1884 and was prelate of the Order of the Garter, 1895-1903. He was created G.

C. V. O. 1904, and received Royal Victorian Chain, 1911. In 1918 he received the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Saviour (Greece); and in 1919 the Grand Cordon de l'ordre de la Couronne (Belgium); also the First Class of the Order of St. Sava (Serbia). 1891-1901, and to King Edward, institution in Davidson, N. C.; founded