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PHILLPOTTS, HENRY (1778-1869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 409 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILLPOTTS, See also:HENRY (1778-1869) , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:Bridgwater on the 6th of May 1778, and was educated at See also:Gloucester See also:College school and at Corpus Christi College, See also:Oxford. He became a See also:fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1795, took orders in 1802, and was select university preacher in 1804. In 1805 he received the living of Stainton-le-See also:Street, See also:Durham, and in addition was appointed to Bishop Middleham, Durham, in the succeeding See also:year. For twenty years he was See also:chaplain to Shute See also:Barrington, bishop of Durham. He was appoined See also:vicar of See also:Gateshead in ,8o8, See also:prebendary of Durham in 1809, and vicar of St See also:Margaret, Durham, in 181o. After holding the See also:rich living of See also:Stanhope, Durham from 182o, and the deanery of See also:Chester from 1828, he was consecrated bishop of See also:Exeter in 1831, holding with the see a residentiary canonry at Durham. His published See also:works include numerous speeches and See also:pamphlets, including those connected with his well-known See also:Roman See also:Catholic controversy with See also:Charles See also:Butler (1150-1832). He was an energetic supporter of the Tory party, even when it acted contrary to his views in passing the Roman Catholic Emancipation See also:Act of 1829. He died on the 18th of See also:September 1869. " Henry of Exeter," as he was commonly called, was one of the most striking figures in the English See also:Church of the 18th See also:century. His See also:intellect was strong rather than broad, his position being that of the traditional High Churchman, with little sympathy either with the Evangelicals or with the Tractarians. On the one See also:hand the famous Gorham See also:judgment was the outcome of his refusal to See also:institute to the living of Brampford See also:Speke a clergyman See also:George See also:Cornelius Gorham (1787-1857), who had openly disavowed his belief in baptismal regeneration; on the other he denounced the equally famous See also:Tract XC. in his episcopal See also:charge of 1843.

As bishop he was a strict disciplinarian, and did much to restore See also:

order in a See also:diocese of which the See also:clergy had become extraordinarily demoralized. Though accused of avarice and See also:pluralism, Phillpotts was generous in his gifts to the church, See also:founding the theological college at Exeter and spending large sums on the restoration of the See also:cathedral.

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