Massachusetts. To one of the most important Protestant Episcopal dioceses, that of Massachusetts, Henry Knox Sherrill, 39, was elected ninth bishop last week. Escorting him to a platform for formal notification was his predecessor once removed,* Dr. William Lawrence, 80 this month, who resigned the office and title of Bishop of Massachusetts in 1926 after 33 years service. Bishop-elect Sherrill is a plumpish married man. The realism of 18-months War service at Bordeaux, as chaplain of the base hospital on its outskirts, underlies a polish acquired at Hotchkiss School, Yale, the Episcopal Theological...
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