Walter Hobhouse Explained

Walter Hobhouse[1] (5 April 1862 – 30 October 1928) was an eminent Anglican priest[2] and author[3] in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The second son of Bishop Edmund Hobhouse[4] he was born on 5 April 1862 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He was Fellow and Lecturer of Hertford College, Oxford, from 1884 to 1887; and then a Student[5] and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1887[6] to 1894. He was Headmaster of Durham School[7] from 1894 to 1899; Editor of The Guardian[8] from 1900[9] to 1905; Chancellor of St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, from 1905 to 1913; Archdeacon of Aston from 1912 to 1913; and Archdeacon of Gloucester[10] from 1917[11] to 1919.

He died on 30 October 1928.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp103918/walter-hobhouse NPG details
  2. ‘HOBHOUSE, Rev. Walter’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 8 April 2013
  3. Amongst others he wrote "Theory and Practice of Ancient Education", 1885; "The Spiritual Standard", 1896; "Otium Didascali", 1898; "The Church and the World in Idea and in History", 1909) > British Library web site accessed 11:19 GMT Monday 8 April 2011
  4. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19130416.2.22&e=-------10--1----0WILLIAM+EDWARD+KNOWLES-- National Library of New Zealand
  5. A Student at Christ Church is what elsewhere is called a Fellow
  6. University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 11 May 1887; pg. 9; Issue 32069
  7. http://www.durhamschool.co.uk/ School web site
  8. Not to be confused with The Manchester Guardian
  9. Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, 25 January 1900; pg. 6; Issue 36048
  10. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=040-gdr_6&cid=9#9 National Archives
  11. WALTER HOBHOUSE (Archdeacon of Gloucester) The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 10 July 1917; pg. 9; Issue 41526
  12. The Rev. Dr. Walter Hobhouse. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 1 November 1928; pg. 16; Issue 45039

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