Berdmore Compton (1820–1908) was an English
Anglican
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priest most distinguished as vicar of
All Saints, Margaret Street
All Saints, Margaret Street, is a Grade I listed Anglo-Catholic church in London. The church was designed by the architect William Butterfield and built between 1850 and 1859. It has been hailed as Butterfield's masterpiece and a pioneering buil ...
, from 1873 to 1886. Following education at
Merton College, Oxford
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, he served as Rector of Barford, near Warwick, until beginning work at
St Paul's, Covent Garden
St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church located in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, central London. It was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission for the 4th Earl of Bedford in 1631 to create "houses and buildings fit ...
from 1865 to 1873. He began service at Margaret Street in 1873 and continued until 1886. At his death in 1907, he was a
prebendary
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of
St Paul's Cathedral
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Bibliographic directoryfrom
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1820 births
1908 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
19th-century English theologians
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Anglo-Catholic clergy
Anglo-Catholic theologians
English Anglican theologians
English Anglo-Catholics
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