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JAMES FRASER (1818-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 39 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:FRASER (1818-1885)  , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at Prestbury, in See also:Gloucestershire, on the 18th of See also:August 1818, and was educated at See also:Bridgnorth, See also:Shrewsbury, and See also:Lincoln See also:College, See also:Oxford . In 1839 he was See also:Ireland See also:scholar, and took a first class . In 1840 he gained an See also:Oriel fellowship, and was for some See also:time See also:tutor of the college, but did not take orders until 1846 . He was successively See also:vicar of Cholderton, in See also:Wiltshire, and See also:rector of Ufton Nervet, in See also:Berkshire; but his subsequent importance was largely due to W . K . See also:Hamilton, bishop of See also:Salisbury, who recommended him as an assistant See also:commissioner of See also:education . His See also:report on the educational See also:condition of thirteen poor-See also:law unions, made in May 1859, was described by See also:Thomas See also:Hughes as " a superb, almost a unique piece of See also:work." In 1865 he was commissioned to report on the See also:state of education in the See also:United States and See also:Canada, and his able performance of this task brought him an offer of the bishopric of See also:Calcutta, which he declined, but in See also:January 1870 he accepted the see of See also:Manchester . The task before him was an arduous one, for although his predecessor, See also:James See also:Prince See also:Lee, had consecrated no fewer than 130 churches, the enormous See also:population was still greatly in advance of the ecclesiastical machinery . See also:Fraser worked with the utmost See also:energy, and did even more for the See also:church by the liberality and geniality which earned him the See also:title of " the bishop of all de-nominations." He was prominent in See also:secular as well as religious See also:works, interesting himself in every See also:movement that promoted See also:health, morality, or education; and especially serviceable as the friendly, unofficious counsellor of all classes . His See also:theology was that of a liberal high-churchman, and his sympathies were broad . In See also:convocation he seconded a See also:motion for the disuse of the Athanasian Creed, and in the See also:House of Lords he voted for the abolition of university tests . He died suddenly on the 22nd of See also:October 1885 .

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biography by Thomas Hughes was published in 1887, and an See also:account of his See also:Lancashire See also:life by J . W . Diggle (1889), who also edited 2 vols. of University and Parochial Sermons (1887) .

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James Fraser was the subject of my thesis for an MEd at Manchester. Initially I focussed on his work for education which I then was asked to develop. In my later research I looked at the whole of his life and work and presented it for my PhD. He had been spoken of as having a narrow view of education, not true, and Messenger in his book follows the lead of earlier historians even labelling him as a conservative. A summary of my findings was published by the History of Education Society. It presented a reappraisal of his work for education
In my earleir feedback I might have added that apart from his work on the Newcastle and the Taunton commission, Fraser was on the Commission looking imto the conditions of women and children in agriculture. This linked into his work on education and brought him into contact with early rural cooperatives. He later became a staunch supporter of the Co-opertive movement which forged a connection with Hughes.
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