Charles Stubbs

{{Short description|English clergyman}}

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend

| name = Charles William Stubbs

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| image = CWStubbs.jpg

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| title = Bishop of Truro

| church = Church of England

| diocese = Diocese of Truro

| term = 1906–1912 (death)

| predecessor = John Gott

| successor = Winfrid Burrows

| other_post = Dean of Ely (1893–1905)

| birth_date = {{birth date|1845|9|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Liverpool

| death_date = {{death date and age|1912|5|4|1845|9|3|df=y}}

| death_place = Truro

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| nationality = British

| religion = Anglican

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| education = Liverpool Collegiate Institution

| alma_mater = Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

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Charles William Stubbs DD (3 September 1845{{snd}}4 May 1912) was an English clergyman.

He was born in Liverpool and educated at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.{{acad|id=STBS864CW|name=Stubbs, Charles William}} As a clergyman he held several incumbencies, among them rector at Wavertree and Granborough. He took a great interest in the working classes and in social subjects, and was liberal both in his political and in his theological opinions.{{Nuttall|inline=1|title=Stubbs, C. W.}} He was Dean of Ely 1894 to 1906 when he was appointed the fourth Bishop of Truro.

His daughter Meriel married the organist and composer Thomas Tertius Noble.[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1210&context=bulletin Trinity College, "Trinity College Bulletin, May 1953" (1953), Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824-present)], Vol. L, New Series No. 4. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

Quotations

  • "To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."

Selected works

  • God and the People: the religious creed of a democrat, being selections from the writings of Joseph Mazzini; 2nd ed. 1896; G W E Russell, A Pocketful of Sixpences, London 1907, p 92
  • Co-operation & Owenite Socialist Communities/The Land and the Labourers (1884)
  • [https://archive.org/details/landlabourersfac00stubuoft The Land and the Labourers] (1893)
  • Charles Kingsley and the Christian Social Movement (1899)
  • Social Teachings of the Lord's Prayer (1900)
  • [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006677670 In a Minster Garden: A Causerie] (1902)
  • Castles in the Air. And Other Poems Old and New. ( Dent, 1903)''
  • [https://archive.org/details/christofenglishp00stubiala The Christ of English Poetry] (1906)
  • [https://archive.org/details/cambridgeitsstor00stubuoft Cambridge and its Story] (1912)
  • Hymns, including Christ was born on Christmas Night and Carol of King Cnut

References

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