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EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBURN (1818-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 283 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD MEYRICK See also:GOULBURN (1818-1897)  , See also:English churchman, son of Mr See also:Serjeant See also:Goulburn, M.P., See also:recorder of See also:Leicester, and See also:nephew of the Right Hon . See also:Henry Goulburn, See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer in the ministries of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel and the See also:duke of See also:Wellington, was See also:born in See also:London on the , r th of See also:February 1818, and was educated at See also:Eton and at Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford . In 1839 he became See also:fellow and See also:tutor of Merton, and in 1841 and 1843 was ordained See also:deacon and See also:priest respectively . For some years he held the living of See also:Holywell, Oxford, and was See also:chaplain to . See also:Samuel See also:Wilberforce, See also:bishop of the See also:diocese . In 1849 he succeeded See also:Tait as headmaster of See also:Rugby, but in 1857 he resigned, and accepted the See also:charge of See also:Quebec See also:Chapel, Marylebone . In 1858 he became a See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's, and in 1859 See also:vicar of St See also:John's, See also:Paddington . In 1866 he was made See also:dean of See also:Norwich, and in that See also:office exercised a See also:long and marked See also:influence on See also:church See also:life . A strong Conservative and a churchman of traditional orthodoxy, he was a keen antagonist of " higher See also:criticism " and of all forms of See also:rationalism . His Thoughts on See also:Personal See also:Religion (1862) and The Pursuit of Holiness were well received; and he wrote the Life (1892) of his friend Dean See also:Burgon, with whose doctrinal views he was substantially in agreement . He resigned the deanery in 1889, and died at Tunbridge See also:Wells on the 3rd of May 1897 . See Life by B .

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Compton (1899) .

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