Francis Paget

{{for|the English clergyman and author (1806-1882)|Francis Edward Paget}}

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Francis Paget (20 March 1851{{snd}}2 August 1911) was an English theologian, author and the 33rd Bishop of Oxford.

Life

He was the second son of the noted surgeon James,Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}} and brother of Luke (sometime Bishop of Stepney and of Chester).

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Paget as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, November 1894}}]]

He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, then at

Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford.“Who was Who” 1897–1990, London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} Ordained priest he became preacher at Whitehall in 1882 and Vicar of Bromsgrove in 1885. An eminent scholar,His works include The Redemption of War (1900), The Spirit of Discipline (1903) and Everlasting Punishment (1906), British Library catalogue accessed 16:59 21 August 2008 he was subsequently Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and Dean at his old college.

After the death of William Stubbs in April 1901, Paget was recommended to succeed him as Bishop of Oxford.{{London Gazette |issue=27318 |date=28 May 1901 |page=3634}} He was elected bishop the following month, and consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in St Paul's Cathedral 29 June 1901.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ecclesiastical intelligence - The Bishop of Oxford|date=1 July 1901 |page=10 |issue=36495}} A couple of days later he was received by Edward VII and invested as Chancellor of the Order of the Garter,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court Circular|date=2 July 1901 |page=5 |issue=36496}} an office held by the Bishop of Oxford between 1837 and 1937.

Paget served as bishop until his death in 1911.Death of the Bishop of Oxford, The Times, Thursday, August 03, 1911; pg. 8; Issue 39654; col E

Paget's son Bernard was a General in the Army, and another son, Edward, was the first Anglican Archbishop of Central Africa. His daughter Edith married the priest and hymnwriter John Macleod Campbell Crum.

Selected works

1887: Faculties and Difficulties for Belief and Dis-belief
1891: [https://archive.org/details/thespiritofdisc00pageuoft The Spirit of Discipline]
1895: Studies in the Christian Character
1899: [https://archive.org/details/introductiontofi00pageuoft An introduction to the fifth book of Hooker's treatise Of the laws of ecclesiastical policy]
1900: The Redemption of War

Francis Paget

Life

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