William Geikie-Cobb Explained

William Frederick Geikie-Cobb (born Danbury 1857 – died London 1941) was an Anglican priest[1] and author,[2] most notable for his willingness to remarry divorced people in church.[3] [4] [5] Geikie-Cobb was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford[6] and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1883. He served curacies at Send, Addlestone, Winchester and Kentish Town. He was rector of St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate from 1900 until his death.[7] During his tenure he was able to officiate at the remarriage of many divorced people,[8] partly because the then Bishop of London had increasingly lost control of discipline within the diocese.[9]

He died on 14 December 1941.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Cobb, Gerald . The Old Churches of London . London . . 1942.
  2. Amongst others he wrote "The Letters of St Bernard", 1890; "Origines Judaicae, 1895; Theology Old and New, 1901; "Some notes on the church of Saint Ethelburga the Virgin within Bishopsgate", 1904; "The book of Psalms", 1905; Mysticism and the Creed, 1914; The Path of the Soul, 1923; "The New Testament and Divorce", 1924; and "The Humanist's Hornbook", 1934 British Library web site accessed 10:57 GMT Wednesday, 9 July 2017
  3. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/file/c63959ce-9451-4fc8-8943-7c25dc2b4f8a/1/merricks2014should.pdf radar.brookes
  4. The Church And Divorce. W. F. GEIKIE-COBB. D.D.The Times (London, England), Friday, 17 November 1922; pg. 11; Issue 43191
  5. http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/2nd-august-1935/9/morals-and-divorce Spectator archive
  6. GEIKIE-COBB, Rev. William Frederick’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 9 Aug 2017
  7. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 p 478 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
  8. http://www.michaelhenderson.org.uk/node/83 Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
  9. "Geoffrey Fisher: Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945–1961" Hein, D. Cambridge : James Clarke & Co., 2008
  10. "Obituaries". The Times (London, England), Monday, 15 December 1941; pg. 6; Issue 49109.

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