Dean to St. Paul's

Through the great West Door and up the long aisle of London's vast St. Paul's Cathedral one day last week slowly marched a procession which included a portly little man, young-looking despite his grey locks. To him, at the altar, a cleric said: "I, Sidney Arthur Alexander, senior canon, do induct you, Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, lawfully appointed dean of this church. The Lord keep your coming in and going out, now and forever."

Replied Dean-Designate Matthews: "Ego, Walterus Robertus Matthews, ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti Pauli Londini decanus installatus, promitto et juro. . . ."

Thus was filled the post made vacant by the retirement last October of Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge. Once a bank clerk like his father, Walter Matthews had been dean of Exeter Cathedral, changed posts after annoying his Bishop by inviting Nonconformists into his pulpit (TIME, July 2). An able philosopher and theologian. Dean Matthews gets $10,000 a year at St. Paul's, will be poorer than he was at Exeter because he must give part of his stipend to his good friend Dean Inge.

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