Quotes:Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn

Zirkoff, Boris

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. English divine, dean of Westminster, b. at Alderley, Cheshire, Dec. 13, 1815; d. July 18, 1881. Educ. at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford. Took orders, 1839. Travelled in Greece and Italy, 1840, and was for ten years tutor of his college. Was a strong advocate of toleration and believed that the Church should include opposite and contradictory opinions. Greatly interested in university reform, acting as secretary to the royal commission, 1852. Made a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land, 1852–53. Travelled in Russia, 1857. Appointed, 1856, regius professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxford, a post he held till 1863. Published the first two volumes of his History of the Jewish Church in 1863 and 1865. In the storm which followed the publication of his Essays and Reviews, he opposed the High Church Party. Accompanied the Prince of Wales in Egypt and Palestine, 1862. Appointed, 1863, Dean of Westminster. Married in December of that year Lady Augusta Bruce, sister of Lord Elgin, then governor-general of India. Was constantly fighting for the interests of the poor. Gave offence by defending Bishop Colenso and by his invitation to the Holy Communion of all the revisers of the translation of the Bible, including a Unitarian among other Nonconformists. He desired that the Athanasian Creed be optional instead of imperative in the Church of England. Much esteemed by Queen Victoria. Other works: Sermons and Essays on the Apostolic Age, 1847.—Sinai and Palestine, 1856.—*Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church. London, 1861, 2nd ed., 1862; 4th ed., 1869; new ed., 1883.—Essays on Church and State, 1870.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 454