Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1847–1911) was an English cleric, headmaster and classical scholar, known as a historian of Roman literature.
Life
He was born in London on 30 July 1847, eldest son of Charles James Cruttwell, barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, and his wife Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Admiral Thomas Sanders. Educated under
James Augustus Hessey at
Merchant Taylors' School, London (1861–6), he went on with a foundation scholarship to
St John's College, Oxford
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro ...
, in 1866. Placed in the first class in classical moderations in 1868 and in literæ humaniores in 1870, he obtained the Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarship in 1869, won the Craven scholarship for classics in 1871, and the Kennicott Hebrew scholarship in 1872. He graduated B.A. in 1871, proceeding M.A. in 1874, and was classical moderator (1873–5). Meanwhile, he was elected fellow of
Merton College
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in 1870, and was tutor there 1874–7.
Ordained deacon by the
bishop of Oxford
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in 1875 and priest in 1876, Cruttwell was curate of
St Giles', Oxford, from 1875 till 1877 when he left for
Bradfield College
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, where he was headmaster. In 1880 he moved on to the headmastership of
Malvern College
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, resigning in 1885 to become rector of
Sutton, Surrey
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. A few months later he was appointed rector of
Denton, Norfolk
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, and in 1891 he accepted from Merton College the benefice of
Kibworth-Beauchamp in succession to
Edmund Knox. While at Kibworth he was also rector of
Smeeton-Westerby, Leicestershire (1891–4),
rural dean
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of
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*Gartree (HM Prison), a Category B men's prison located in Market Harborough, Leicestershire
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(1892–1902), examining chaplain to the bishop of Peterborough (1900), and proctor in convocation (1900).
In 1901 Cruttwell was nominated by
Lord Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen y ...
to the crown benefice of
Ewelme
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, Oxfordshire, and in 1903 he was collated by the bishop of Peterborough to a residential canonry. Cruttwell was also select preacher to Oxford University in 1896–8, and again in 1903–5. In 1909 he joined a clerical party who visited Germany in the cause of international peace. He died at Ewelme on 4 April 1911.
Works
Cruttwell published:
*''A History of Roman Literature'' (London and Edinburgh, 1877)
*''Specimens of Roman Literature'' (Glasgow, 1879), with the Rev. Peake Banton
*''A Literary History of Early Christianity'' (2 vols. 1893)
*''The Saxon Church and Norman Conquest'' (1909)
*''Six Lectures on the Oxford Movement'' (1899).
Family
Cruttwell married on 5 August 1884 Anne Maude, eldest daughter of
Sir John Robert Mowbray, 1st Baronet. They had three sons, including
Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell, and one daughter.
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Attribution
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1847 births
1911 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
English classical scholars
Presidents of the Oxford Union
Headmasters of Malvern College
20th-century English Anglican priests