in York Minster. Archbishop William Thomson made him succentor there on 20 August 1881, and precentor with a prebendal stall on 3 January 1883. Later life In 1880 Beaconsfield wanted to appoint Fleming first Bishop of Liverpool, but local pressure caused John Charles Ryle to be preferred. He later declined the Bishopric of Sydney, in November 1884, and for financial reasons Lord Salisbury's successive offers of the deaneries of Chester (20 December 1885) and of Norwich (6 May 1889). Honorary chaplain to Queen Victoria (1876) and chaplain in ordinary to her (1880) and to Edward VII (1901), Fleming from 1879 preached almost yearly before the Queen and Prince of Wales, at Sandringham. From 1880 Fleming was Whitehead professor of preaching and elocution at the London College of Divinity (St. John's Hall, Highbury). With Thomas Pownall Boultbee of the College, and William Barlow, he advised Ann Dudin Brown, benefactor of Westfield College. Three times — 1901, 1903, and 1907— he was appointed William Jones lecturer (sometimes called the Golden lectureship) by the Haberdashers' Company. Fleming, who early in 1877 denounced the "folly, obstinacy, and contumacy" of the ritualists in The Times (25 January 1877), ceased to wear the black gown in the pulpit after the judgment in Clifton v. Ridsdale (12 May 1877). His suspicion of ritualism only increased with his years. In later life he supported the Protestant agitation of John Kensit. His personal relations with C. H. Spurgeon, William Morley Punshon and other nonconformist leaders were good. Fleming died at St. Michael's Vicarage on 1 September 1908, and was buried at Kensal Green cemetery. Ernest Harold Pearce in the Dictionary of National Biography wrote that "personal charm and grace of speech made him popular, but he was neither a student nor a thinker". A reredos and choir stalls in memory of him were placed in St. Michael's (1911), and a statue of King Edwyn in York Minster. Works Fleming's Bath Penny Readings of 1862 covers one of the origins of the penny reading movement. He published a manual on The Art of Reading and Speaking (1896), Our Gracious Queen Alexandra (1901) for the Religious Tract Society, and sermons. Fleming explained in an open letter that he had transferred a sermon by Thomas De Witt Talmage from a common-place book to Science and the Bible (1880) inadvertently, in reply to an 1887 pamphlet accusing him of plagiarism from Talmage's Fifty