Bishops' Salaries

Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, recently gave up half his -L-9,000 ($36,000) salary. Tories who dislike His Grace for his leftish economic and social ideas were quick to point a scornful finger at this renunciation. Said Sir Herbert Williams in the House of Commons: "He has entered into a perfectly splendid arrangement . . . [he] will pay less taxation in the future. . . ."

To the High Church Archbishop's defense last week came Low Church Viscount Caldecote (Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip), England's Lord Chief Justice, a former Lord Chancellor. He noted that the financial arrangement between Dr. Garbett and the ecclesiastical commissioners (authorized by the Church Assembly last March) lets the commissioners foot some of York's official bills. Why not? said the Viscount. He thought the attacks on the Archbishop "ill judged and unfair," found the "perfectly legitimate arrangement . . . would . . . relieve him of considerable personal bookkeeping."

Further approval of the Northern Primate's action came from the Anglican Church's third-ranking prelate, the Bishop of London. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher let it be known that he, too, had begun negotiations with the commissioners to halve his own salary ($40,000), revamp ancient 44-room Fulham Palace, keep a few rooms for himself, turn the rest into a diocesan hostel.

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