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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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