Lancelot Phelps (priest)
Lancelot Ridley Phelps[1] (b Sevenoaks 3 November 1853; d Oxford 16 December 1936)[2] was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford[3] from 1914 to 1930.[4]
Phelps was educated at Charterhouse[5] and Oriel College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1872, graduating B.A. in 1877.[6] He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1879,[7] but not as a priest until 1896. His career was spent as a Fellow and Tutor at Oriel. He was also an Alderman of Oxford and a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress from 1905 to 1909.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Portrait of Phelps
- ^ The Rev. L. R. Phelps. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 17 December 1936; pg. 18; Issue 47560
- ^ National Archives
- ^ "Phelps, Lancelot Ridley". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 19 May 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Phelps, Lancelot Ridley. "Phelps, Lancelot Ridley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24136. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "GENERAL ORDINATIONS" The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, 24 September 1879; pg. 2; Issue 33461
- ^ Poor Law Commission The Times (London, England), Thursday, 18 February 1909; pg. 3; Issue 38886
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