Alison, Archibald
(male)
12/29/1792 - 05/23/1867
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Historian and lawyer; wrote at least 50 articles for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; noted high Tory, opposed to Parliamentary reform; wrote History of Europe during the French Revolution (1833-1842); attacked Malthus. See Boase I: 47, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Armstrong, John Rutherford
(male)
08/22/1813 - 05/16/1856
English
Lincoln College, Oxford
Bishop of Grahamstown; influenced by Oxford Movement; wrote The Pastor in his Closet (1847), Sermons on the Festivals (1845), Tracts for the Christian Seasons (1848–9, 1849–50), Sermons for the Christian Seasons (1852–3), Tracts for Parochial Use (1852–3), and Parochial Sermons (1854); worked for church penitentiaries. See Boase I: 84-5, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Bandinel, James
(male)
1814 - 1893
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Cleric and writer; Rector of Emley; wrote Lufra; or the convent of Algrarve: a poem in eight cantos (1851), Milton Davenant (1852), and other works; wrote for the English Review and Ainsworth's Magazine. See Boase IV: 256, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Berens, Venerable Edward
(male)
1777 - 04/07/1859
English
Christ Church, Oxford
Cleric; vicar of Shrivenham, Archdeacon of Berkshire; wrote A Memoir of the Life of Bishop Mant (1849), Twenty-Three Short Lectures on the Church Catechism (1851), Advice to Oxford Freshmen (1853), and other works. See Boase I: 250.
Biber, George Edward
(male)
09/04/1801 - 01/19/1874
German
Writer and cleric; born in Germany but naturalized by vote of parliament; vicar of Holy Trinity, Roehampton; wrote for the English Review, the Churchman's Magazine, the Literary Churchman; edited John Bull. See Boase I: 269, ODNB.
Churton, Edward
(male)
02/10/1800 - 07/04/1874
English
Christ Church, Oxford
Theologian and Spanish scholar; archdeacon of Cleveland; member of Hackney Phalanx; wrote Memoir of Joshua Watson (1861); wary of Pusey and Newman; edited Englishman's Library, which sought to counterbalance Tracts. See ODNB.
Colquhoun, John Campbell
(male)
01/23/1803 - 04/17/1870
English
Oriel College, Oxford
Biographer and politician; M.P.; wrote Short Sketches of Some Notable Lives (1855), Life in Italy and France in the Olden Times (1858), William Wilberforce, His Friends and Times (1866). See Boase I: 686. ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Gladstone, William E.
(male)
12/29/1809 - 05/19/1898
English
Christ Church, Oxford
Member of Parliament, founder of Colonial bishoprics fund, Secretary of State for Colonies (1845-6); Chancellor of the Exchequer (1852-1855); four times Prime Minister; author of The State in its relations with the church (1838). See Boase V: 418-420, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Gresley, William
(male)
03/16/1801 - 11/19/1876
English
Christ Church, Oxford
Extreme High Churchman; prebendary of Litchfield; wrote Bernard Leslie (1842), The Forest of Arden (1843), and other works. See Boase I: 1237, ODNB.
Gurney, Archer Thompson
(male)
07/15/1820 - 03/21/1887
English
Barrister and cleric; chaplain to Court chapel, Paris; spent time in Bonn; wrote hymns and songs, a play Turandot, Princess of China (1836); wrote for journals including the New Quarterly Review. See Boase I: 1260, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Jebb, John
(male)
09/27/1775 - 12/09/1833
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Church of Ireland bishop of Limerick; wrote Sermons on Subjects Chiefly Practical (1815), Essay on Sacred Literature (1820), and other works. See ODNB.
Le Bas, Charles Webb
(male)
04/26/1779 - 01/25/1861
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
Distinguished preacher and writer; mathematical professor and dean at the East India College, Haileybury; wrote Sermons on Various Occasions (1822-34); supporter of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; one of the principal contributors to the British Critic. See Boase II: 346, ODNB.
Lyne, Charles
(male)
1802 - 05/05/1873
English
Cleric; prebendary of Exeter; wrote An Old Man's wanderings, a Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts (1845). See Boase II: 544.
Manning, Henry Edward
(male)
07/15/1808 - 01/14/1892
English
Balliol College, Oxford
Cardinal; raised as Anglican and served as cleric in Church of England; member of Oxford Movement, wrote Tract 78; archdeacon of Chichester; converted to Roman Catholicism in 1851. See Boase II: 722, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Palmer, William Patrick
(male)
02/14/1803 - 1885
English
Magdalen Hall, Oxford; Trinity College, Dublin
High Churchman, liturgical scholar, and editor; prebendary of Salisbury; taught at Worcester, Oxford, and known as Palmer of Worcester; wrote Origines liturgicae,or antiquities of the English Ritual (1832) and other works; editor of the English Review. See Boase II: 1324-5, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Phillimore, Sir Robert
(male)
11/05/1810 - 02/04/1885
English
Christ Church, Oxford
M. P.; official of the archdeaconries of Middlesex and London 1840-1862; judge of the Cinque ports 1855-1875; president of the Association for reform and codification of law of nations 1879; knighted 1862. See Boase II: 1498-9, ODNB.
Robertson, James Craigie
(male)
1813 - 07/09/1882
Scottish
Trinity College, Cambridge
Anglican churchman, canon of Canterbury Cathedral; studied German literature; vicar of Bekesbourne near Canterbury; professor of ecclesiastical history at King's College, London; wrote How Shall We Conform to the Liturgy? (1843), Writings on the Gorham case (1850), History of the Christian Church (1851-1873); contributed to the Quarterly Review. See Boase III: 210-11, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Sewell, William
(male)
01/13/1797 - 11/14/1874
English
Merton College, Oxford
Cleric and author; curate of St. Nicholas in Carisbrooke Castle; tutor and librarian at Exeter College; steadfast high churchman sympathetic to Oxford Movement; published many collections of sermons and translations of Greek works; reviewer for Quarterly Review. See Boase III: 499-500, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Warburton, Bartholomew Elliot George
(male)
1810 - 01/04/1852
Irish
Queens' College, Cambridge; Trinity College, Cambridge
Travel writer; wrote The Crescent and the Cross (1844), Zoe: an Episode of the Greek War (1847), Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers (1849); editor of Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries (1851). See Boase III: 1185-6, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)