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St Aidan's College, Birkenhead
St Aidan’s College was a Church of England theological college in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, open from 1847 to 1970. History The college was founded in 1846 by Revd Dr Joseph Baylee, vicar of Birkenhead, with the approval of John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester. Initially a Parochial Assistance Association, it had taken on the name of a college by 1847. From 1847 it was housed in five rented houses in Cambridge Terrace on Slatey Road, Prenton. In 1856, it was formally inaugurated as a theological college with 63 students. Its purpose was to train Anglican clergy to serve in the Church of England, in particular in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of Merseyside. New buildings at Shrewsbury Road, Birkenhead, were designed by Henry Cole and inaugurated in November 1856. The college closed in 1868, with the departure of its founder Dr Baylee. It re-opened in 1869 under a new council, who appointed as principal William Saumarez Smith, who, like Baylee, had strong ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birkenhead
Birkenhead (; cy, Penbedw) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974. The town is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the south bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 88,818. Birkenhead Priory and the Mersey Ferry were established in the 12th century. In the 19th century, Birkenhead expanded greatly as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution. Birkenhead Park and Hamilton Square were laid out as well as the first street tramway in Britain. The Mersey Railway connected Birkenhead and Liverpool with the world's first tunnel beneath a tidal estuary; the shipbuilding firm Cammell Laird and a seaport were established. In the second half of the 20th century, the town suffered a significant period of decline, with containerisation causing a reduction in port activity. The Wirral Waters development is planned to regenerate much of the dockland. Toponymy The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Liverpool
, mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 2004. legislation.gov.uk (4 July 2011). Retrieved on 14 September 2011.1903 – royal charter , type = Public , endowment = £190.2 million (2020) , budget = £597.4 million (2020–21) , city = Liverpool , country = England , campus = Urban , coor = , chancellor = Colm Tóibín , vice_chancellor = Dame Janet Beer , head_label = Visitor , head = The Lord President of the Council '' ex officio'' , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , colours = The University , affiliations = Russell Group, EUA, N8 Group, NWUA, AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS, EASN, Universities UK , website = , logo = Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Pickering (priest)
Fred Pickering (18 November 1919 - 22 January 2010) was Archdeacon of Hampstead from 1974 to 1984. Pickering was educated at Preston Grammar School, St Peter's College Oxford and St Aidan's College Birkenhead. He began his career with curacies in Leyland and Islington. He was Organising Secretary. for The Church Pastoral Aid Society from 1948 to 1951. He held incumbencies at All Saints, Burton-on-Trent, St John, Carlisle and St Cuthbert, Wood Green. He was also Rural Dean of East Haringey from 1968 to 1973; and Examining Chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intelligence ... to the Bishop of Edmonton from 1973 to 1984.‘PICKERING, Ven. Fred’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow Pendleton
Frederick Henry Snow Pendleton (1818 – 1888) was a priest in the Church of England during the Victorian Era. Early years Pendleton, born on 13 September 1818, was educated at the University of Ghent and at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead. While in Ghent his portrait was painted by Ford Madox Brown; this is now in Manchester Art Gallery. After being ordained in the diocese of Winchester, he served as curate of St Martin's, Guernsey, from December 1849 to June 1851, and as senior curate of St Helier, Jersey, from August 1851 to July 1853. Work with the Waldensians He was consular chaplain to the British residents at Montevideo, Uruguay from 6 May 1854 to 31 December 1858. During his residence there 150 Protestant Waldensians, impelled by the scarcity of employment in Piedmont, left their native country and landed in Montevideo. They were followed in 1858 by about a hundred more, when the whole party settled at Florida, about sixty miles from the city. Jesuit opposition arose and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Parry
Herbert Thomas Parry (1869–1940) was Archdeacon of Lindsey from 1934 until his death. Parry was educated at Ellesmere College, Worcester College, Oxford and St Aidan's College, Birkenhead. Parry was ordained Deacon in 1893, Priest in, 1894 and began his career as Curate of St Mary and all Saints, Chesterfield. He was appointed Rector of Bigby in 1897, Proctor in Convocation in 1929 and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1931; and held all three posts until his death on 27 October 1940;''Obituaries.'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ... (London, England), Thursday, 31 October 1940; pg. 7; Issue 48761 Notes 1869 births 1940 deaths Archdeacons of Lindsey Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford Alumni of St Aidans College Birkenhead Peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishaq Musaad
Ishaq Musaad was Bishop of Egypt from 1974 to 1982. He studied for the priesthood at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead and was ordained in 1954. After a curacy in Old Cairo he was Curate in charge at Giza until 1961. He was the Chaplain at Heliopolis from then until 1972 when he became Archdeacon in Egypt. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980-1982 p722 Oxford, OUP Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...,1980 References Alumni of St Aidans College Birkenhead Anglican archdeacons in Africa Anglican bishops of Egypt 20th-century Anglican bishops in Africa Egyptian expatriates in the United Kingdom {{Anglican-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Moulsdale
Stephen Richard Platt Moulsdale (18 August 1872, County Sligo – 25 October 1944, Hintlesham) was an Irish Anglican priest and academic administrator. Life and career The eldest son of the Revd T. H. P. Moulsdale, an Anglo-Irish cleric who was the rector of Ballysumaghan, Stephen Moulsdale was educated initially in Sligo followed by St Aidan's Theological College in Birkenhead. He was ordained in 1896 and became a curate at St Chad's Church in Everton, Liverpool. Later continuing his studies at Durham University as a member of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, he was granted an MA in Divinity in 1903. Moulsdale married Mary Frideswide, the daughter of Aysgarth School headmaster the Rev. C. T. Hales, in 1908. She died in 1933. In 1903 he was appointed vice-principal of St Chad's Hostel, Hooton Pagnell, and in 1904 was appointed principal. Also in 1904, he was instrumental in founding St Chad's Hall at Durham University as a sister institution to the hostel, becoming its first principal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Morgan
Robert Josias "Raphael" Morgan (c. 1866 - July 29, 1922) was a Jamaican-American who is believed to be the first Black Eastern Orthodox priest in the United States. After being active in other denominations, including the AME Church, Church of England, and the Episcopal Church, Morgan converted to Orthodoxy. He was ordained as an Orthodox priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He was designated as "Missionary ( el, Ιεραποστολος) to America and the West Indies." He claimed to have founded the "Order of Golgotha", but the Orthodox Church is not organized into orders. As a young man he had traveled in the Caribbean and to the United States, where he became a minister in the AME Church, the first independent black denomination in the US. He next traveled to England, and joined the Church of England and began religious studies. He returned to the US, where he was ordained in 1895 after a period as a deacon in the Episcopal Church. He continued studies and worked in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Foster (priest)
John William Foster (5 August 1921–7 March 2000) was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the twentieth century. Foster was born in 1921 and served in the Leicestershire Yeomanry from 1939 to 1946. After studying at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead he was ordained deacon in 1954 and priest in 1955. After a curacy at All Saints Church, Loughborough (1954-1957) he moved to Hong Kong. He was Chaplain to the Hong Kong Defence Force and of the territory's cathedral. In 1960 he became its Precentor and in 1963 its Dean, a post he held for a decade. He was the Vicar of Church of St Oswald, Lythe from 1973 to 1978; and Dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * ... of Guernsey from 1978 until 1988. He died in 2000. "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Atherton
Robert Atherton (1861–1930) was an English poet. During his lifetime he was referred to as The Ploughman Poet. Early life Atherton was the son of Robert Atherton and Ellen Hesketh. Born in Kirkby, Lancashire in 1861; at the time a small farming village which has since developed into a busy suburb of Liverpool. He spent his youth as a ploughboy but later took holy orders at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead. He allegedly taught himself Hebrew, Latin and Greek. Career Atherton became Rector of the parish church at Bolnhurst in Bedfordshire, a post he occupied for 15 years. During this time he began writing what became an extensive collection of verse which caused some to regard him as the 'Lancashire Burns'. He acquired the nickname Robin O' Bobs and the reputation of an eccentric and sometimes used the pseudonym of Rupert Upperton. He left the St Dunstan's Parish Church, Bolnhurst; and the Anglican church in 1904, and became a 'wandering poet', living for a time in Birmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Saumarez Smith
William Saumarez Smith (known as Saumarez; K. J. Cable,Smith, William Saumarez (1836 - 1909), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 11, MUP, 1988, pp 675-677. 14 January 1836 – 18 April 1909) was an Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia. Life Smith was born in Saint Helier, Jersey the eldest twin son of the Lieutenant Richard Snowden Smith (later a clergyman) and his wife Anne, ''née'' Robin. Smith was educated at Windlesham House School, Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. with first-class honours in classics and theology in 1858. He was Crosse theological scholar in 1859, Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar in 1860, and on two occasions won the Seatonian prize for poetry. He graduated M.A. in 1862, B.D. in 1871, D.D. in 1889, and was a fellow of Trinity College, 1860-70. Smith was ordained a deacon on 19 June 1859 and priest on 3 Jun 1860; he was vicar of Trumpington, 1867–69, and principal of St Aidan's Theological College, 1869 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Williams (bishop)
Ronald Ralph Williams (14 October 1906 – 3 February 1979) was a Church of England bishop. He was Principal (academia), Principal of St John's College, Durham from 1945 to 1953 and Bishop of Leicester from 1953 to 1979. Early life and education Williams was born on 14 October 1906 to the Revd Ralph Williams and Mary ( Sayers). He attended The Judd School, a grammar school in Tonbridge, Kent. He went on to study English and theology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He obtained second class honours in Part I of the English Tripos in 1926, first class honours in Part I Theology Tripos, and a distinction in Part II of the Theology Tripos with which he graduated with Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1928. Ordained ministry Williams was too young to be ordained immediately after leaving university in 1928, and so spent the following year as a tutor at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead. Having been ordained in the Church of England, he served his curacy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
