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Æthelbert
(d. 616),king of Kent (560–616), was the king who welcomed the Christian missionaries led by St Augustine to England in 597. He exercised overlordship over all the English peoples south of the ...
Anglo-Saxon Church
The Church in England from the end of the 6th cent. to the Norman Conquest (1066). In 597 the Roman mission of St Augustine landed in Thanet in the south and sees were quickly set up at Canterbury, ...
art and architecture: Anglo-Norman
When the Normans conquered England in 1066, there was an extraordinary and thriving artistic tradition already in place, particularly in regard to manuscript illumination. While the political and ...
Bec
(abbey) Founded in central Normandy in 1034 by the knight Herluin, Bec, despite its initial obscurity, soon gained a reputation for piety and learning, producing two notable ecclesiastics: Lanfranc ...
Charles John Vaughan
(1816–97),Dean of Llandaff. Educated at Rugby under T. Arnold and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1841. From 1844 to 1859 he was Headmaster of Harrow, where ...
diocese of Chelmsford
The present see, created in 1914, is conterminous with Essex. In 604 Augustine consecrated Mellitus bishop of London to convert the East Saxons, but success was short‐lived. In c.650 Oswiu, king of ...
diocese of St Albans
Now conterminous with Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, the see was founded in 1877 from parts of the Rochester diocese (Herts., Essex and north Woolwich). This was a failure, and Essex and north ...
Edmund Guest
(1518–77), Bp. of Salisbury from 1571. His Treatise against the Privy Mass (1548) repudiated the Eucharistic Sacrifice and adoration of the consecrated elements, and in 1549 he spoke against ...
Edward Hawkins
(1789–1882), Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, 1828–74. He was influential in weaning J. H. Newman from his early Evangelicalism, but later stopped him from receiving tutorial pupils. In 1841 he drew ...
Edward Stuart Talbot
(1844–1934), Anglican bishop. The first Warden of Keble College, Oxford (1870–88), and then Vicar of Leeds (1888–95), he became Bp. of Rochester in 1895. His main work here was the division of the ...
Francis Atterbury
(1662–1732),became bishop of Rochester in 1713. He engaged in the Phalaris controversy and in the theological and political disputes of the day, and was imprisoned in 1720 for alleged complicity in a ...
Gundulf
(d. 1108)Bishop of Rochester (1077–1108) and close adviser to Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury (d. 1089) and Anselm. Known as an effective administrator and skilled builder, Gundulf was appointed in ...
Hereford
The see was founded in 676 by Putta, Bp. of Rochester, who had fled from the heathen invaders of his diocese. St Ethelbert, King of the East Angles, was buried in the cathedral and, with the BVM, ...
John Fisher
(1469–1535),bishop and martyr. Born at Beverley (Humberside), the son of a mercer, Fisher was educated at Cambridge University from the age of fourteen. He became a distinguished scholar, was elected ...
John Scory
(d. 1585),successively Bp. of Chichester and Hereford. Originally a Cambridge Dominican, he became a secular clerk in 1538 at the Dissolution of the Monasteries and was appointed in 1551 ...
Kent
One of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, probably covering much the same area as the modern county of Kent in SE England. (See also Garden of England at garden.)Man of Kent a native or inhabitant ...
Lambeth
For over 700 years Lambeth has been the London residence of the Abps. of Canterbury. Abp. Baldwin (1185–90) acquired the manor and manor-house of Lambeth, though it was not described as ‘Lambeth ...
2nd earl of Clarendon, Henry Hyde
(1638–1709).Clarendon was the son of the lord chancellor, and brother of Anne Hyde, mother of Queen Mary and Queen Anne. On the accession of his brother‐in‐law James II in 1685, Clarendon and his ...
Nicholas Ridley
(c. 1500–55).One of the celebrated ‘Oxford martyrs’, Ridley played a significant role in shaping the protestant Church of England under Edward VI. A Northumbrian by birth, he studied at Newcastle, ...
Randall Thomas Davidson
(1848–1930),Abp. of Canterbury. The son of Scottish Presbyterian parents, he was educated at Harrow (where he was confirmed) and at Trinity College, Oxford, and then trained for holy orders ...
