in his ways." As the cathedral was unfinished and unconsecrated (except for the Lady Chapel) there was no Dean, nor was there a Chapter. David was responsible for the building and for securing the funds for its completion. The first section of the main body of the cathedral was complete by 1924. It comprised the chancel, an ambulatory, chapter house and vestries. The section was closed with a temporary wall, and on 19 July 1924, the 20th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone, the cathedral was consecrated in the presence of George V and Queen Mary, and bishops and archbishops from round the globe. The building remained David's responsibility until 1931, when by Order in Council the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral were incorporated. After eight years of responsibility for the building David found it hard to relinquish control to the new Dean and Chapter. Frederick Dillistone, a later Dean, commented, "To put it bluntly the Bishop found it difficult to keep his hands off the Cathedral." Relations between Frederick Dwelly, Dean of Liverpool, and David were at first harmonious, but soured after Dwelly miscalculated public opinion and permitted a Unitarian to preach at a normal service in the cathedral. David had earlier permitted another Unitarian to preach at a non-liturgical service, but it was regarded by many as intolerable that a non-Anglican should preach in an Anglican service. David publicly supported Dwelly during the ensuing furore, but was obliged to endure the humiliation of being formally reproved by William Temple, Archbishop of York (his former pupil at Rugby), in provincial synod in 1934. David sought to reach out to nonconformists, but found himself embroiled in a controversy with the local Roman Catholic diocese over what he described as the "terrorizing methods" used by its priests to prevent Catholics from marrying Protestants. In 1935 David's health deteriorated, impaired, according to his biographer Harold Costley-White, "by the burdens and anxieties of his office". He travelled to Australia, and returned "refreshed and with a wider vision of the opportunities of the Church in the Empire". After raising a sum of £85,000 for his diocese, he retired in 1944. Kennerley writes that David was more respected than loved in the diocese. After he retired there came "a great improvement in the relationship between Cathedral and diocese." David retired to Trebetherick in Cornwall, where he died at the age of 83.