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See also: Anglican divine, archbishop of See also: York, was See also: born at See also: Cork in 1821
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His See also: father was curate of the parish attached to the See also: Protestant See also: cathedral in that city; his grandfather was archbishop of See also: Dublin
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See also: Young Magee entered Trinity See also: College, Dublin, with a scholarship at thirteen
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He was ordained to the curacy of St See also: Thomas's, Dublin, but, being threatened with
See also: consumption, went after two years to See also: Malaga
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On his return he took a curacy at See also: Bath, and was speedily appointed to the Octagon See also: Chapel, where his fame both as preacher and platform See also: speaker continued to spread
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Some years afterwards he was made prebendary of See also: Wells Cathedral
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In 186o the delicate See also: state of his healthcaused him to accept the living of Enniskillen
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In 1864 he was made dean of Cork and See also: chaplain to the See also: lord See also: lieutenant
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Here he manifested those See also: great gifts which ultimately raised him to high office; a powerful grasp of See also: mental, moral and See also: political problems, combined with eloquence of a high See also: order, and illuminated with brilliant flashes of wit
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In 1868 the question of the disestablishment of the Irish See also: Church came to the front, and Magee threw himself into the task of its defence with his usual energy and vivacity
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The success of his orations caused Disraeli to offer him the bishopric of
See also: Peterborough
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He justified his See also: appointment by his magnificent speech when the Disestablishment See also: Bill reached the See also: House of Lords in 1869, and then plunged into diocesan and general See also: work in See also: England
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He preached three remarkable sermons on Christian Evidence in Norwich Cathedral in 1871 . He took up theSee also: temperance question, and declared in the House of Lords that he would rather see "England See also: free than England compulsorily sober," an utterance which the extreme See also: advocates of See also: total abstinence misquoted and attacked
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He was also a supporter of the See also: movement for abolishing the recitation of the Athanasian Creed in the public services of the Church of England, believing, as he said, that the " presence " of the damnatory clauses, " as they stand and where they stand, is a real peril to the Church and to See also: Christianity itself," and that those clauses " are no essential See also: part " of the' creed
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The project was laid aside in consequence of the hostility of a large See also: body of the See also: clergy, reinforced by the See also: threat of Dr See also: Pusey and See also: Canon See also: Liddon to abandon their offices if it were carried
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Magee took a prominent part in the Ritual controversy, opposing what he conceived to be romanizing excess in ritual, as well as the endeavour of the opposite party to " put down Ritualism," as Disraeli expressed it, by the operation of the See also: civil See also: law
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His incisive way of putting things earned for him the title of the "Militant See also: Bishop," but, as he himself remarked in, relation to this title; his efforts were ever for See also: peace
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Unfortunately for the Church, he was not elevated to the see of York until his energies were exhausted
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He died on the 5th of May 1891, about four months after his appointment
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Magee's manifold activities, his capability as an See also: administrator, his See also: sound See also: judgment, and his remarkable insight into the ecclesiastical problems of his See also: time, See also: rank him among the most distinguished of See also: English prelates
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See See also: Life and Letters, by Canon See also: MacDonnell (2 vols
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