Frederic Henry Chase (21 February 1853,

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23 September 1925, Bexhill) was a British academic and

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Life

The only son of Charles Frederic Chase, rector of

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and St Anne Blackfriars, and Susan Mary Alliston. Chase was educated at

King's College School King's College School, also known as Wimbledon, KCS, King's and KCS Wimbledon, is a public school in Wimbledon, southwest London, England. The school was founded in 1829 by King George IV, as the junior department of King's College London and ...

, London and

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

, graduating in

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in 1876 after receiving the Powys Medal the previous year. He was

ordain Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform var ...

deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian churches, such as the Catholic Churc ...

in 1876 and

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

in 1877, and briefly worked as

curate A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

Sherborne Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The parish includes the hamlets of Nether Coombe and Lower Clatcombe. T ...

before returning to Cambridge in 1879 He was a lecturer in divinity at

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from 1881 to 1890, and at Christ's College from 1893. In 1884 he became tutor of the Clergy Training School, Cambridge (now Westcott House), and in 1887 became principal of that college. He was elected to give the

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for 1900. In late 1901 Chase was elected President of

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and the following November he was also elected Norris Professor of Divinity. Three years later, on 18 October 1905, he was consecrated a bishop by

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, at

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; to serve as

. He resigned as bishop in 1924 and died in 1925. He is buried in

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. When the Great War opened in August, 1914, Chase declared his support for British involvement. He wrote ‘We believe the war to be a just and necessary war; but each day we feel more deeply its horrors and anxieties .... At this time of national need it seems to me that our young men ought to offer themselves for service in Lord Kitchener’s Second Army. I believe that this is a solemn duty. I earnestly hope that this diocese may not be behind in this matter. Here lies our national safety, under God.’ Under Chase's influence, clergy led local recruitment activities, and a survey of church schools indicated that they provided more recruits than council schools. This pressure from clergy backfired when they were accused of hypocrisy for encouraging recruitment but not having to face the enemy themselves. Chase wrote that clergy should not be blamed because they were ‘under orders’ from the bishop. Some clergy volunteered as temporary chaplains to the forces and others took on additional duties with prisoners of war and in the new and expanding military hospitals. One of the bishop's sons, George Armitage Chase, was awarded a Military‘What Did You Do In The Great War Bishop?’ By Tom Scherb, in Stand To!, September, 2012, Western Front Association Cross when he was a temporary chaplain. He became Bishop of Ripon in 1946.

Works

Chase was known for research into the Bezan and Syro-Latin texts, including the

Codex Bezae The Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, designated by siglum D or 05 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 5 (in the von Soden of New Testament manuscript), is a codex of the New Testament dating from the 5th century writ ...

. * ''Chrysostom'' (1887) * ''The Lord´s Prayer in the Early Church'' (1891) * F. H. Chase
''The Old Syriac Element in the Text of Codex Bezae''
MacMillan, 1893.

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