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Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury - A Life (Hardcover, New)
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Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury - A Life (Hardcover, New)
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This is the first full-length, serious biography of Frederick
Temple, an eminent, nineteenth-century figure and father of William
Temple who was Archbishop of Canterbury during the Second World
War. Born on a Greek island, of middle-class but impoverished
parents, he was educated at Balliol College on a scholarship,
became principal of a college which trained teachers for pauper
children, then headmaster of Rugby, and Bishop successively of
Exeter and London before finally becoming Archbishop of Canterbury
at the age of 76 in 1897. In the realm of education he could be
considered the real designer of the Oxford and Cambridge
Examination Board in the 1850s; was a contributor to the first of
the `scandalous' volumes of liberal theology, Essays and Reviews in
1860; was secretary of the Taunton Commission on grammar school
education in 1868; and gave the Bampton lectures of 1884 on science
and religion which made the theory of evolution respectable. As
Bishop of London he attempted to mediate in the London dock strike
of 1889; was responsible for the final form of the Archbishops'
reply to the Pope's encyclical on Anglican orders; presided over
the `Archbishops' Headings' on certain ritual practices in the
`Church Crisis' at the end of the century; was much involved in
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations; and crowned Edward
VII. He collapsed in the House of Lords after speaking in the
debate on the education bill of 1902 and died soon afterwards. To
gather the material for this fluent and attractive biography, the
author has made use of the Temple family papers, most of which have
been hitherto unpublished, as well as the more than 100 volumes of
the Archbishop's official papers at Lambeth Palace.
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