Church. This site is now in ruin, and is a Grade II* listed building in the park of Trinity Green. Van Mildert was the last Bishop of Durham with significant temporal powers as a Palatinate Prince-Bishop. Those de jure vestiges of feudal jurisprudence were removed and returned to the Crown after his death in 1836 by the Durham (County Palatine) Act 1836. In truth, most of the secular power of the Bishop of Durham had already been removed by that time. The Great Reform Act 1832 saw the removal of most of the Prince Bishop's powers although he maintained a seat in the House of Lords and The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 gave the governing power of the town of Durham to an elected body. Works An Inquiry Into the General Principles of Scripture Interpretation References 1765 births 1836 deaths Bishops of Llandaff Bishops of Durham People associated with Durham University Deans of St Paul's People educated at St Saviour's Grammar School 19th-century Welsh Anglican bishops Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Regius Professors of Divinity (University of Oxford) 19th-century Church of England bishops 18th-century Anglican theologians 19th-century Anglican theologians