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

Compton (1899) .

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