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Francis Paget (20 March 18512 August 1911) was an English
He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, then at
''The Spirit of Discipline''
*1895: ''Studies in the Christian Character'' *1899
''An introduction to the fifth book of Hooker's treatise Of the laws of ecclesiastical policy''
*1900: ''The Redemption of War''
theologian
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, author and the 33rd Bishop of Oxford
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.
Life
He was the second son of the noted surgeonJames
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, and brother of Luke (sometime Bishop of Stepney and of Chester).
He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, then at
Shrewsbury School
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and Christ Church, Oxford. Ordained priest
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he became preacher at Whitehall
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in 1882 and Vicar
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of Bromsgrove in 1885. An eminent scholar, he was subsequently Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford
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and Dean
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at his old college.
After the death of William Stubbs
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in April 1901, Paget was recommended to succeed him as Bishop of Oxford. He was elected bishop the following month, and consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in St Paul's Cathedral 29 June 1901. A couple of days later he was received by Edward VII
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and invested as Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, an office held by the Bishop of Oxford between 1837 and 1937.
Paget served as bishop until his death in 1911.Death of the Bishop of Oxford, ''The Times
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'', Thursday, August 03, 1911; pg. 8; Issue 39654; col E
Paget's son Bernard
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was a General in the Army, and another son, Edward, was the first Anglican Archbishop of Central Africa. His daughter Edith married the priest and hymnwriter John Macleod Campbell Crum
The Rev. Canon John Macleod Campbell Crum (12 October 1872 - 19 December 1958) was an Anglican priest, author and hymnwriter.''Crockford's Clerical Directory'' (1932), "Crum, John Macleod Campbell", p. 300.
Family and education
Crum was born at ...
.
Selected works
*1887: ''Faculties and Difficulties for Belief and Dis-belief'' *1891''The Spirit of Discipline''
*1895: ''Studies in the Christian Character'' *1899
''An introduction to the fifth book of Hooker's treatise Of the laws of ecclesiastical policy''
*1900: ''The Redemption of War''
References
Further reading
*Paget, Stephen & Crum, J. M. C. (1913) ''Francis Paget''. London: Macmillan {{DEFAULTSORT:Paget, Francis 1851 births 1911 deaths People educated at St Marylebone Grammar School People educated at Shrewsbury School Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford Deans of Christ Church, Oxford Bishops of Oxford 20th-century Church of England bishops Regius Professors of Moral and Pastoral Theology Younger sons of baronets Chancellors of the Order of the Garter