Basil Jellicoe
{{Short description|Church of England priest (1899-1935)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Basil Jellicoe
| birth_date = 5 February 1899
| birth_place = Chailey, Sussex
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|08|24|1899|02|05|df=y}}
| death_place = Uxbridge
| occupation = Church of England priest, housing reformer
}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}John Basil Lee Jellicoe (5 February 1899 – 24 August 1935) was a priest in the Church of England best known for his work as a housing reformer.
Early life and education
John Basil Lee Jellicoe was born in Chailey, Sussex on 5 February 1899, the eldest son of Bethia Theodora and Thomas Harry Lee Jellicoe. His father was rector of St Peter's Chailey, and a cousin of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe.{{Cite ODNB |title=Jellicoe, (John) Basil Lee (1899–1935), housing reformer and Church of England clergyman |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34170 |access-date=2024-05-22 |date=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34170}} His maternal grandfather was Sir John Boyd, of Maxpoffle, Roxburgh, lord provost of Edinburgh from 1888 to 1891. Jellicoe was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College. A graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, he later studied at St. Stephen's House, Oxford{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2010/9-april/features/catholic-not-churchy|title = Catholic, not churchy}} and was ordained as an Anglican priest.Kenneth Ingram, Basil Jellicoe, Centenary Press, London: 1936.
Career
Jellicoe became Missioner at the Magdalen College Mission run by the College in the parish of St Mary's Church in Somers Town, London, then an area of exceptional overcrowding and poverty between Euston and St Pancras main line railway stations.Roland Jeffery, Housing Happenings in Somers Town in Housing the Twentieth Century Nation, Twentieth Century Architecture No 9, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-9556687-0-8}}
In 1924, he was founder of the St Pancras Housing Association (originally the St Pancras House Improvement Society), run for many years by Irene Barclay as the honorary secretary.{{Cite web |title=Irene Barclay {{!}} housing reformer {{!}} surveyor {{!}} blue plaques |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/barclay-irene/?_gl=1*t9iwru*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTEwNDA4NjU1Mi4xNzE2MzcyNjc3*_ga_QK86RM1N34*MTcxNjM3MjY3Ny4xLjAuMTcxNjM3MjY3Ny4wLjAuMA.. |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=English Heritage}} He also founded several other housing associations in East London, St Marylebone, Kensington, Sussex and Cornwall. He toured the country in his small car fundraising and selling loan stock to fund these projects.
File:Father_Basil_Jellicoe_plaque.jpg
Basil Jellicoe died in Uxbridge on 24 August 1935, aged only 36, after suffering ill heath for a decade.
Commemoration
A plaque was unveiled in his honour in Camden in 2014.
He is commemorated in the Diocese of London with a memorial day on 24 August.A Kalendar of Holy Days Approved for Use in the Diocese of London, Third edition, London: Diocese of London, 2014, p. 26. The annual Jellicoe Sermon at Magdalen College is named in his honour.
A video of Jellicoe interacting with Londoners in a pub in 1930 is available online through the University of South Carolina Library's digital archive.{{Cite web |title=Fox Movietone News Story 5-559 |url=https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/938/rec/18 |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=digital.tcl.sc.edu |language=en}}
Notes
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Sources
- [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34170 Dictionary of National Biography entry]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071228064209/http://www.theology-centre.org/jellicoe.htm The Jellicoe Society]
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Category:People from Lewes District
Category:20th-century English Anglican priests
Category:History of the London Borough of Camden
Category:British housing rights activists
Category:Anglo-Catholic clergy
Category:English Anglo-Catholics
Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
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