and in 1859 was elected Vice-Chancellor of the
University. About three months previous to his promotion to this
Bishopric, Dr. Jeune was made Dean of Lincoln, in the room of the Rev.
Thomas Garnier. Dr. Jeune lived only four years after his appointment
to the see. Suffering from an internal disease he went to Whitby for
change of air, where he died on the 21st of August, 1868, after a short
and painful illness, and was succeeded by the Rev. W. Connor Magee.

Bishop Magee was born at Cork in the year 1821, his father at that time
holding a cure in that city before being presented to the living of St.
Peter's, Drogheda, in 1829. His grandfather filled the Metropolitan see
of Dublin previous to Archbishop Whately. The future bishop of
Peterborough received his earliest education at Kilkenny, from which
place, at the age of thirteen, he was removed to Trinity College,
Dublin. Here he obtained a scholarship in 1838, and Archbishop King's
Divinity prize. He graduated A.B. in 1842, A.M. and B.D. in 1854, and
D.D. in 1860. In 1844 Mr. Magee received deacon's orders at the hands
of the Bishop of Chester, and in the following year was ordained priest
by the Bishop of Tuam. His first curacy was that of St. Thomas, Dublin,
which he was obliged to resign through ill health, and after a two
years' residence abroad he accepted a curacy at St. Saviour's, Bath, in
1848. Two years later he was appointed to the joint incumbency of the
Octagon Chapel, Bath. During his residence in Bath, Mr. Magee published
two volumes of sermons. In 1859 he was nominated an Hon. Canon of Wells
Cathedral, and received the degree of D.D. from his University; and on
the resignation of Dr. Goulburn, minister of Quebec Chapel, Portman
Square, London, Canon Magee was appointed to the vacant post. In 1860
he was transferred to the precentorship of Clogher in conjunction with
the rectory of Enniskillen; in 1864, on the death of Dr. Newman, he was
installed Dean of Cork; and in 1866 was appointed Dean of the Chapel
Royal, Dublin. He was enthroned as Bishop of Peterborough shortly after
the death of Bishop Jeune in 1868, receiving his appointment from the
Conservative Prime Minister, Mr. Disraeli.

List of the Deans of Peterborough,

_With the date of their appointment._

Francis Abree, D.D. 1541
Gerard Carlton, B.D. 1543
James Curtop, A.M. 1551
Iohn Boxhall, LL.D. 1558
William Latimer, D.D. 1560