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TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)

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TEMPLE, See also:FREDERICK (1821-1902) , See also:English divine, See also:arch-See also:bishop of See also:Canterbury, was See also:born in See also:Santa Maura, one of the Ionian Islands, being the son of See also:Major Octavius Temple, who was subsequently appointed See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of Sierra Leone. On his retirement he settled in See also:Devonshire as a small landowner, and contemplated a farming See also:life for his son Frederick, giving him a See also:practical training to that end. But the boy was sent to Blundell's School, See also:Tiverton, and soon exhibited abilities which marked him out for a different career. He retained through life a warm See also:affection for the school, where he did well both in the classes and the See also:games, and was famous as a See also:walker. His See also:father's means were narrow, and the boy knew that he must win his own way in life. He took the first important step in that way by winning a scholarship at Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, before he was quite seventeen years old. The Tractarian See also:Movement " had set in five years earlier; but the memorable See also:tract, No. 90, had not yet been written, and Temple entered a university which was vibrating with intellectual and religious excitement. After much discussion and reflection he See also:drew closer to the See also:camp of " the Oxford Liberal Movement." In 1842 he took a " See also:double-first " and was elected See also:fellow of Balliol, and lecturer in See also:mathematics and See also:logic. Four years later he took orders, and with the aim of helping forward the See also:education of the very poor, he accepted the headship of See also:Kneller See also:Hall, a college which the See also:government formed for the training of masters of workhouse and penal See also:schools. But the experiment was not altogether successful, and Temple himself advised its See also:abandonment in 1855. He then accepted a school-inspectorship, which he held until he went to See also:Rugby in 1858.

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prince See also:consort, and in 1856 he was appointed See also:chaplain-in-See also:ordinary to the See also:queen. In 18J7 he was select preacher at his university. At Rugby Dr See also:Arnold had died in 1842 and had been succeeded by Dr See also:Tait, who again was followed by Dr See also:Goulburn. Upon the resignation of the latter the trustees appointed Temple, who in that See also:year (1858) had taken the degrees of B.D. and D.D. His life at Rugby was marked by See also:great See also:energy and bold initiative. 1 Dellinger, Akademische See also:Vole See also:age (See also:Munich, 1891), ix. " Der Untereang See also:des Templerordens." Whilst making the school a strong one on the classical See also:side, he instituted scholarships in natural See also:science, built a laboratory, and gave importance to that side of the school See also:work. He had the courage also to reform the games, in spite of all the traditions of the playing See also:fields. His own tremendous See also:powers of work and his rugged manner somewhat alarmed his boys at first, but his popularity was soon undisputed, and he brought up the school to a very high level. His school sermons were deeply impressive: they rooted See also:religion in the loyalties of the See also:heart and the See also:conscience, and taught that faith might dwell secure amid all the bewilderments of the See also:intellect, if only the life remained rooted in pure affections and a See also:loyalty to the sense of See also:duty. It was two years after he had taken up his work at Rugby that the See also:volume entitled Essays and Reviews gave rise to an extraordinary See also:storm. The first See also:essay in the See also:book, " The Education of the See also:World," was by Dr Temple.

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note to the volume that the authors were responsible only for their respective articles, but some of these were deemed so destructive that many See also:people banned the whole book, and a noisy demand, led by See also:Samuel See also:Wilberforce, then bishop of Oxford, called on the headmaster of Rugby to dissociate himself from his comrades. Temple's essay had treated of the intellectual and spiritual growth of the See also:race, and had pointed out the contributions made respectively by the See also:Hebrews, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the See also:Romans, and others. It was generally declared by the critics of the volume to be in itself harmless, but was blamed as being found in See also:bad See also:company. Temple refused, so See also:long as the storm lasted, to comply with the See also:request that he would repudiate his associates, and it was only at a much later date (1870) that he saw See also:fit quietly to withdraw his essay. In the meantime, however, he printed a volume of his Rugby sermons, to show definitely what his own religious positions were. In politics Temple was a follower of Mr See also:Gladstone, and he approved of the disestablishment of the Irish See also:Church. He also wrote and spoke in favour of Mr See also:Forster's Education See also:Act, and was an active member of the Endowed Schools See also:Commission. In 1869 Mr Gladstone offered him the deanery of See also:Durham, but this he declined on the ground of his strong See also:interest in Rugby. When later in the same year, however, See also:Henry See also:Phillpotts, bishop of See also:Exeter, died, the See also:prime See also:minister turned again to Temple, and he accepted the bishopric of that See also:city so dear to him from boy-See also:hood, and See also:left Rugby for a See also:home amongst his own people. The See also:appointment, however, raised a fresh storm. G. A.

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Denison, See also:archdeacon of See also:Taunton, See also:Lord See also:Shaftesbury, and others formed a strong See also:committee of protest, whilst See also:Pusey declared that " the choice was the most frightful enormity ever perpetrated by a prime minister." At the See also:confirmation of his See also:election counsel was instructed to See also:object to it, and in the voting the See also:chapter was divided. But Gladstone stood See also:firm, and Temple was duly consecrated on the 21st of See also:December 1869. There were at first murmurings among his See also:clergy against what they deemed his harsh See also:control, but his real kindness soon made itself See also:felt, and, during the sixteen years of his See also:tenure of the see, his See also:sound and vigorous See also:rule dissipated the prejudices against him, so that when, on the See also:death of Dr See also:John See also:Jackson in 1885, he was translated to See also:London, the appointment gave See also:general See also:satisfaction. In 1884 he was See also:Bampton Lecturer, taking for his subject " The Relations between Religion and Science." In 1885 he was elected honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Dr Temple's tenancy of the bishopric of London was marked, if possible, by more strenuous labours than ever. His normal working See also:day at this See also:time was one of fourteen or fifteen See also:hours, and he refused to spare himself one See also:hour of toil, though under the See also:strain See also:blindness was rapidly coming on. He was still felt by many of his clergy and by candidates for ordination to be a rather terrifying See also:person, and to enforce almost impossible See also:standards of See also:diligence, accuracy and See also:preaching efficiency, but his See also:manifest devotion to his work and his zeal for the See also:good of the people rooted him deeply in the general confidence. In London he was not less conspicuous as a See also:temperance worker than he had been in Exeter, and the See also:artisan classes instinctively recognized him as their friend. When, in view of his growing blindness, he offered to resign the bishopric, he was induced to reconsider his proposal, and on the sudden death of See also:Archbishop See also:Benson in 1896, though now seventy-sift years of age, he accepted the see of Canterbury. As archbishop he presided in 1897 over the decennial See also:Lambeth See also:Conference. In the same year Dr Temple and his See also:brother archbishop issued an able reply to an encyclical of the See also:pope which denied the validity of See also:Anglican orders. In 1900 the archbishops again acted together, when an See also:appeal was ad-dressed to them by the See also:united episcopate, to decide the vexed questions of the use of See also:incense in divine service and of the See also:reservation of the elements.

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hearing of arguments they gave their decision against both the practices in question. During his archbishopric Dr Temple was deeply distressed by the divisions which were weakening the Anglican Church, and many of his most memorable sermons were calls for unity. His first See also:charge as See also:primate on " Disputes in the Church " was felt to he a most powerful plea for a more See also:catholic and a more charitable See also:temper, and again and again during the closing years of his life he came back to this same theme. He was zealous also in the cause of See also:foreign See also:missions, and in a See also:sermon preached at the opening of the new See also:century he urged that a supreme See also:obligation rested upon See also:Britain at this See also:epoch in the world's See also:history to seek to evangelize all nations. In 1900 he presided over the World Temperance See also:Congress in London, and on one occasion preached in the interests of See also:women's education. In 1902 he discharged the important duties of his See also:office at the See also:coronation of See also:King See also:Edward VII., but the strain at his advanced age told upon his See also:health. During a speech which he delivered in the See also:House of Lords on the 2nd of December 1902 on the Education See also:Bill of that year, he was seized with sudden illness, and, though he revived sufficiently to finish his speech, he never fully recovered, and died on the 23rd of December 1902. He was interred in Canterbury See also:cathedral four days later. His second son, See also:William Temple (b. 1881), who had a distinguished career at Oxford, was in 1910 appointed headmaster of See also:Repton. See Archdeacon E. G.

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Sandford, Frederick Temple: an Appreciation (1907), with See also:biographical introduction by William Temple; See also:Memoirs of Archbishop Temple, by " Seven See also:Friends," ed. E. G. Sandford (1906).

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