Lancelot Phelps (priest)

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Portrait of Lancelot Ridley Phelps (1853-1936), Provost of Oriel College, Oxford. Lancelot Ridley Phelps.jpg
Portrait of Lancelot Ridley Phelps (1853–1936), Provost of Oriel College, Oxford.

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]

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References

  1. Portrait of Phelps
  2. The Rev. L. R. Phelps. The Times (London, England), Thursday,  17 December 1936; pg. 18; Issue 47560
  3. National Archives
  4. "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.)
  5. 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.)
  6. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Phelps, Rev. Lancelot Ridley"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co via Wikisource.
  7. "GENERAL ORDINATIONS" The Morning Post  (London, England), Wednesday, 24 September 1879; pg. 2; Issue 33461
  8. Poor Law Commission The Times (London, England), Thursday, 18 February 1909; pg. 3; Issue 38886
Academic offices
Preceded by Provost of Oriel College, Oxford
1914–1930
Succeeded by