The Victorian Clergy

Alan Haig

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138638778
• eBook ISBN: 9781317268468
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire du 19ème siècle

First published in 1984. The Victorian clergy occupied a uniquely prominent position in English society. Their church generated continual and often rancorous debate and they played an important part in the local provision of education, welfare and justice. Politically, also, they were never negligible. But, while in 1830 the clergy still constituted England's largest and wealthiest professional body, by 1914 their position was increasingly marginal. This title examines these changes and the issues in which the clergy was facing during this transition. The Victorian Clergy will be of particular interest to students of history.

The Victorian Clergy

 

ALAN HAIG

©1984 Alan Haig

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Haig, Alan

The Victorian clergy.

1. Church of England – Clergy – History – 19th century

I. Title

262’.143   BX5197

ISBN 0-7099-1230-7

DOI: 10.4324/9781315637587

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Biddles Ltd, Guildford and King’s Lynn

Contents

1. Preface
2. Abbreviations
3. 1. CLERGY GROWTH AND ‘PROFESSIONALISATION’
4. 2. THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE CLERGY
5. Introduction
6. Background Factors and Ordination
7. Academic and Intellectual Factors
8. Avenues for Poorer Men
9. The Question of Theological Training
10. 3. THE TRAINING OF NON-GRADUATE CLERGY
11. Introduction: Demand
12. The Non-graduate Students
13. The Debate
14. Internal Problems and Scandals
15. Later Developments: the Growth of Central Control
16. 4. DIOCESES AND ORDINATION
17. Samples and the Dioceses
18. Ordination
19. The Ordinands
20. 5. THE UNBENEFICED CLERGY
21. 6. PATRONAGE
22. 7. BENEFICED AND BEYOND
23. Three College Fellows
24. Town and Country
25. Professional and Private Incomes
26. Retirement and Pensions
27. 8. CONCLUSION
28. Select Bibliography
29. Index

TABLES

• 1.1 Numbers of Clergy in England and Wales
• 2.1 Estimates of Clergy as Proportion of Oxford and Cambridge Students
• 2.2 Educational Backgrounds of Clergy
• 2.3 Fathers’ Occupations, For Honours Samples
• 2.4 Occupations of Cambridge Honours Sample
• 2.5 Honours Sample: Parentage of Sons Entering Church and Law
• 2.6 Family Position … by career choice
• 2.7 Honours Sample: Sizars and Rest … Entering Major Professions
• 3.1 St Bees College
• 3.2 Fathers of St Bees Students
• 4.1 Benefices, and Resident and Non-resident Clergy, in … Chichester, Oxford and Ripon
• 4.2 Educational Backgrounds of Ordinands, All Cases and Sample
• 4.3 Breakdown of the Non-Oxbridge Ordinands at Ripon
• 5.1 Curates … in Chichester, Oxford and Ripon, and in all Dioceses … With Incomes
• 6.1 Diocesan Samples, Patronage Types
• 6.2 Diocesan Samples, Patronage Connections
• 6.3 Patrons and the Value of Their Livings, 12 months to Sept 1873
• 7.1 Net Income, by Parish Population: England and Wales, 1891–2
• 7.2 Level of Church ‘Rank’ attained by major groups

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Title Page 1
• Copyright Page 1
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. CLERGY GROWTH AND ‘PROFESSIONALISATION’
• 2. THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE CLERGY
• 3. THE TRAINING OF NON-GRADUATE CLERGY
• 4. DIOCESES AND ORDINATION
• 5. THE UNBENEFICED CLERGY
• 6. PATRONAGE
• 7. BENEFICED AND BEYOND
• 8. CONCLUSION
• Select Bibliography
• Index