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HENRY PHILLPOTTS (1778-1869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 409 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:PHILLPOTTS (1778-1869)  , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:Bridgwater on the 6th of May 1778, and was educated at See also:Gloucester See also:College school and at Corpus Christi College, See also:Oxford . He became a See also:fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1795, took orders in 1802, and was select university preacher in 1804 . In 1805 he received the living of Stainton-le-See also:Street, See also:Durham, and in addition was appointed to Bishop Middleham, Durham, in the succeeding See also:year . For twenty years he was See also:chaplain to Shute See also:Barrington, bishop of Durham . He was appoined See also:vicar of See also:Gateshead in ,8o8, See also:prebendary of Durham in 1809, and vicar of St See also:Margaret, Durham, in 181o . After holding the See also:rich living of See also:Stanhope, Durham from 182o, and the deanery of See also:Chester from 1828, he was consecrated bishop of See also:Exeter in 1831, holding with the see a residentiary canonry at Durham . His published See also:works include numerous speeches and See also:pamphlets, including those connected with his well-known See also:Roman See also:Catholic controversy with See also:Charles See also:Butler (1150-1832) . He was an energetic supporter of the Tory party, even when it acted contrary to his views in passing the Roman Catholic Emancipation See also:Act of 1829 . He died on the 18th of See also:September 1869 . " See also:Henry of Exeter," as he was commonly called, was one of the most striking figures in the English See also:Church of the 18th See also:century . His See also:intellect was strong rather than broad, his position being that of the traditional High Churchman, with little sympathy either with the Evangelicals or with the Tractarians . On the one See also:hand the famous Gorham See also:judgment was the outcome of his refusal to See also:institute to the living of Brampford See also:Speke a clergyman See also:George See also:Cornelius Gorham (1787-1857), who had openly disavowed his belief in baptismal regeneration; on the other he denounced the equally famous See also:Tract XC. in his episcopal See also:charge of 1843 .

As bishop he was a strict disciplinarian, and did much to restore See also:

order in a See also:diocese of which the See also:clergy had become extraordinarily demoralized . Though accused of avarice and See also:pluralism, See also:Phillpotts was generous in his gifts to the church, See also:founding the theological college at Exeter and spending large sums on the restoration of the See also:cathedral .

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