Editing Edward White Benson (section)

===Archbishop of Canterbury, 1883–1896===
[[Image:Edward White Benson.jpg|thumb|150px|Archbishop Benson]]
In 1883 he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

Five years later Benson avoided [[Edward King (Bishop of Lincoln)|Edward King]], [[Bishop of Lincoln]], being prosecuted before a lay tribunal under the [[Public Worship Regulation Act 1874]] for six [[Ritualism in the Church of England|ritual offences]] by hearing the case in his own archiepiscopal court (inactive since 1699).<ref name=chad>{{cite book |first=Owen |last=Chadwick |title=The Victorian Church (Part 2) |publisher=Adam & Charles Black |date=1980 }}</ref>{{rp|354}} In his judgement (often called "the Lincoln Judgement"), he found against the bishop on two points, with a proviso as to a third that when performing the manual acts during the prayer of consecration in the Holy Communion service, the priest must stand in a way that is visible to the people.<ref name=dic/>

Benson tried to amalgamate the two [[Convocation of the English Clergy|Convocations]] and the new houses of laity into a single assembly.  In 1896 it was established that they could 'unofficially' meet together.{{r|chad|page1=365}}

In September of the same year, the [[papal bull]] ''[[Apostolicae curae]]'', which denied the validity of Anglican orders, was published and Benson had started a reply. He preached his last sermon at [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Church of Ireland)|St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh]] on 27 September: there is a memorial to him in the north aisle there.<ref>"Funary Monuments & Memorials in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh" Curl, J.S. pp56-57: Whitstable; Historical Publications; 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-905286-48-5}}</ref> He was taken ill while attending Sunday service in [[St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden|St Deiniol's Church]], [[Hawarden]], Wales, on 11 October 1896, during a visit to the former Prime Minister, [[William Ewart Gladstone]]. His death was attributed to [[heart failure]]. Three days later his body was put on the train at [[Sandycroft railway station|Sandycroft station]] to be returned to [[London]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/en/PDFFiles/Records-and-Archives/Brief-History,-Part-Two,-ENGLISH.pdf|title=Death of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Hawarden Rectory | website=Brief History |page=19| publisher=Flintshire County Council}}</ref>

He was buried at [[Canterbury Cathedral]], in a magnificent tomb located at the western end of the nave. The tomb is emblazoned with the epitaph Benson had chosen: ''Miserere mei Deus Per crucem et passionem tuam libera me Christe'' ("Have mercy on me O Christ our God, Through Thy Cross and Passion, deliver thou me").<ref>[https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM102FP_Tomb_Archbishop_Edward_White_Benson_Canterbury_Cathedral_Canterbury_Kent_UK Waymarking.com]</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Augustus Blair |last=Donaldson |title=The Bishopric of Truro: the First Twenty-five Years, 1877–1902 |url=https://archive.org/details/bishopricoftruro00dona |location=London |publisher=Rivingtons |date=1902 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bishopricoftruro00dona/page/n230 191]}}</ref>

His work concerning Saint [[Cyprian]], ''Cyprian: his life, his times, his work'',{{sfn|Benson|1897}} was published posthumously, in the year after his death.<ref name=dic>{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Cross |editor1-first=Frank Leslie|editor2-last=Livingstone |editor2-first=Elizabeth A.|encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2005 |edition=3rd |title=Benson, Edward White |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fUqcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA190|page=190|isbn=9780192802903}}</ref>