Arthur Stanton (priest)

Arthur Henry Stanton (21 June 1839 - 28 March 1913)[1] was a British Anglo-Catholic priest in the latter decades of the 19th and early twentieth centuries.[2]

He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford;[3] and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1864. His only post was as Curate at St Alban's, Holborn,[4] 1862-1913.[5] Stanton was an indefatigable champion of the poor, staunch champion of ritual and exuberant preacher. He attracted devoted supporters and horrified critics in equal measure. In 1877 he founded a society for postmen, the Saint Martin's League.[6] At the end of his life he was offered, and rejected, a prebendal stall in St Paul's Cathedral.[7]

Following his death, his funeral took place on 1 April 1913. Fellow clergy escorted his coffin as it was carried on a wheeled bier through crowded streets from his Holborn church to the London Necropolis railway station, Waterloo for transport to Brookwood Cemetery near Woking where a crowd of 1,000 had assembled for his interment.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ Deaths. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Mar 29, 1913; pg. 1; Issue 40172
  2. ↑ Roger T. Stearn, ‘Stanton, Arthur Henry (1839–1913)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 accessed 28 Jan 2014
  3. ↑ UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE The Morning Post (London, England), Friday, June 27, 1862; pg. 6; Issue 27621
  4. ↑ Parish historical overview
  5. ↑ Kelway, Clifton (1915) The Story of the Catholic Revival. London: Cope & Fenwick; p. 78
  6. ↑ "The Life of Father Dolling" Osborne,C.E p 17: London, Edward Arnold, 1903
  7. ↑ Project Canterbury
  8. ↑ Parsons, Brian (2001). The London Way of Death. Sutton Publishing. p. 52. ISBN 0-7509-2539-6.

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