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Stanley (ARTHUR PENRHYN an English)

ARTHUR PENRHYN, an English clergyman; son of the Bishop of Norwich, born in Alderley, Cheshire, Dec. 13, 1815; was educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold (1829-1834). As a scholar of Balliol, he gained the Newdigate, Ireland, and other university distinctions; took a first class in classics (1837); and was elected fellow of University College (1840). Taking orders, he was for 12 years tutor of his college; Select Preacher (1845-1846); secretary to the Oxford University Commission (1850-1852); canon of Canterbury (1851-1858); Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and canon of Christ Church (1858-1864); in 1863 declined the archbishopric of Dublin; and became next year the Dean of Westminster. St. Andrews University conferred on him the degree of LL.D (1871), and he was installed its rector (1875). He made a tour in the East (1852-1853), and again as chaplain to the Prince of Wales (1862), performed the Protestant marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh at St. Petersburg (1874), and visited the United States (1878). The leader after Maurice's death of the "Broad Church" party, he showed sympathies with free thought by his action in the "Essays and Reviews" and Colenso controversies; by his presence at the second "Old Catholic" Congress; by invitations to Dissenters and Max Müller to preach_or lecture in the Abbey. Among his numerous publications are the "Life of Arnold" (1844, 9th ed. 1875); "Sermons and Essays on the Apostolic Age" (1846, 3d ed. (1874); "Memoir of Bishop Stanley" (1850); "Epistles to the Corinthians, with Notes and Dissertations" (1854, 4th ed. 1876); "Historical Memorials of Canterbury Cathedral" (1854, 6th ed. 1872); "Sinai and Palestine" (1855, 20th ed. 1874); "Lectures on the Eastern Church" (1861, 4th ed. 1869); "Lectures on the Jewish Church" (3 series, 1862-1875, 7th ed. 1877); "Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey" (1867, 4th ed. 1874); "Essays on Questions of Church and State from 1850 to 1870" (1870); "The Athanasian Creed" (1871); "Lectures on the Church of Scotland" (1872); and "Addresses and Sermons at St. Andrews" (1877). He married in 1863 Lady Augusta Bruce, daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin. He died in his deanery, July 18, 1881, and was buried in the chapel of Henry VII., Westminster Abbey. 52 STANLEY, SIR HENRY MORTON