Edward Maltby (1836-1856), his successor, was translated from Chichester, and held the see for twenty years, when, owing to advanced age and increasing infirmity, he resigned in 1856.
Charles Thomas Longley (1856-1860), first Bishop of Ripon, was next elected. He was a popular and much-beloved prelate. In 1860 he was created Archbishop of York, and two years later was translated to Canterbury.
Hon. Henry Montague Villiers (1860-1861) was translated from Carlisle. A fine preacher, his episcopate was all too short. He died, after much suffering, in 1861.
Charles Baring (1861-1878), Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, succeeded him. A man of unbounded charity and goodness, he won the affection of all who knew him personally. He was compelled, through illness, to resign the see in 1878, and did not long survive his retirement.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1879-1889) was then elected to the see. A man of scholarly attainments, he is still too well known and remembered to need any detailed note. He came to Durham pledged to accomplish as soon as possible the division of the diocese, which promise he carried out by restoring the suppressed see of Hexham to Newcastle-on-Tyne. A fine tomb to the memory of Dr Lightfoot has been placed on the north side of the choir of the cathedral, and as a memorial of his episcopate the mutilated chapter-house has been restored.
The present bishop is the Right Rev. Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D.
In this place may conveniently be given the rough draft of the settlement of the see by King Henry VIII. at the Reformation. Although departed from in many instances, it throws a curious light on the king's intentions to keep up some semblance of a conventual institution with an active educational purpose.
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| First a provoste of the College | cc li. | ||
| Item xii prebendaryes and the moste parte of theym preachers vi of them 1 markes and vi of them xxvi li. xiii s. iiii d. by the yere | ccclx li. | ||
| Item a Reader of humanytie in greke by the yere | xx li. | ||
| Item a Reader of dyvynytie in hebrewe by the yere | xx li. | ||
| Item a Reader bothe of devynytie and humanytie by the yere | xx li. | ||
| Item a Reader of physyke | xx li. | ||
| Item lx scollers to be tawghte both gramer and logyke in hebrewe greke and lattyn every of them by the yere iii li. vi s. viii d. | cc li. | ||
| Item xx studyentes in dyvynytie to be founde x att Oxenford, and x att Cambryge every of them by the yere x li. | cc li. | ||
| Item a Scolmaster for the same Scollers | xx li. | ||
| Item an ussher | x li. | ||
| Item viii petycanons to synge and serve in the quere every of them x li. by the yere | xxiiii li. | ||
| Item x laye men to synge and serve also in the quyre every of them by yere vi li. xiii s. iiii d. | lxvi li. xiii s. iiii d. | ||
| Item x Chorysters every of them by the yere fyve marks | xxxiii li. vi s. viii d. | ||
| Item a master of the Chylderne | x li. | ||
| Item a Gospeller | vi li. | ||
| Item a pysteller | v li. | ||
| Item ii sextens | vi li. xiii s. iiii d. | ||
| Item xii poore men beynge olde servynge men decayed by warres or in the Kyng's servyce every of them vi li. xiii s. iiii d. by yere | lxvi li. xiii s. iiii d. | ||
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| Item yearly to be distrybuted in almes to poore house-holders | lxvi li. xiii s. iiii d. | ||
| Item for yearly reparacions | lxvi li. xiii s. iiii d. | ||
| Item to be employed yerely in makynge and mendynge of hyghewayes | lxvi li. xiii s. iiii d. | ||
| Item to a Steward of the Landes | vi li. xiii s. iiii d. | ||
| Item to an Audytor | x li. | ||
| Item to ii porters to kepe the gates and shave the Company | x li. | ||