Edward Meyrick Goulburn English

England

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 churchman, son of Mr Serjeant Goulburn, M.P., recorder of Leicester

Leicester

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, and nephew of the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn

Henry Goulburn

Henry Goulburn PC FRS was an English Conservative statesman and a member of the Peelite faction after 1846.-Background and education:...

, chancellor of the exchequer

Chancellor of the Exchequer

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 in the ministries of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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, was born in London

London

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, and was educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and at Balliol College, Oxford

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In 1839 he became fellow and tutor of Merton

Merton College, Oxford

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, and was ordained in 1842. For some years he held the living of Holywell

Holywell

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, Oxford, and was chaplain to Samuel Wilberforce

Samuel Wilberforce

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, bishop of the diocese

Diocese

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. In 1849 he succeeded Tait

Archibald Campbell Tait

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 as headmaster of Rugby

Rugby School

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, but in 1857 he resigned, and accepted the charge of Quebec Chapel, Marylebone.

In 1858 he became a prebendary

Prebendary

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 of St Paul's

St Paul's Cathedral

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, and in 1859 vicar

Vicar

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 of St John's, Paddington. In 1866 he was made Dean of Norwich

Dean of Norwich

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, and in that office exercised a long and marked influence on church life. A strong Conservative

Conservatism

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 and a churchman of traditional orthodoxy

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, he was a keen antagonist of higher criticism and of all forms of rationalism

Rationalism

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His Thoughts on Personal Religion (1862) and The Pursuit of Holiness were well received; and he wrote the Life (1892) of his friend Dean Burgon

John William Burgon

John William Burgon was an English Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876. He is remembered for his passionate defence of the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis and of Biblical inerrancy in general.-Biography:Burgon was born at Smyrna, the son of an English...

, with whose doctrinal views he was substantially in agreement. He resigned the deanery in 1889, and died at Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells

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 on the 3rd of May 1897. There is a memorial to him at Aynho

Aynho

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See Life by B. Compton (1899).