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See also: English clergyman and educational reformer, was See also: born in See also: London on the 24th of See also: November 1819, the son of a See also: barrister
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Educated at See also: Eton and at Balliol See also: College, See also: Oxford, he entered Durham University in 1842, to study See also: theology, and was ordained in 1843
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In 1845 he was appointed to St See also: Thomas
See also: Charterhouse, where he remained for eighteen years, throwing , himself passionately into the See also: work of See also: education of his poor, degraded and often criminal parishioners
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He began by establishing a school for ragamuffins in a blacksmith's abandoned See also: shed, and with the generous help of See also: friends he gradually extended its scope until the whole parish was a network of See also: schools
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In 1858 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission to inquire into popular education, and he was returned a representative of the London School See also: Board after the passing of See also: Forster's See also: Act in 187o
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In 1863 the See also: bishop of London -gave him the living of St Botolph Bishopsgate
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See also: Rogers was also made a prebendary of St See also: Paul's, and in 1857 he had been appointed See also: Chaplain in Ordinary to the See also: Queen
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Having largely solved at St Thomas's the problem of elementary education, at Bishopsgate Rogers tackled the no less difficult one of See also: middle-class schools
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He believed in secular education, leaving doctrinal training to parents and See also: clergy
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To the cry against " godless education," Rogers impulsively replied, " Hang theology; let us begin "; and his See also: nickname of " Hang-theology Rogers " See also: stuck to him for the rest of his See also: life
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The Cowper Street Schools, costing £20,000, were the See also: practical result of his energy
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His next See also: great work was the reconstruction of See also: Edward See also: Alleyn's charity at See also: Dulwich
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The new college was opened in 1870; new buildings were erected for the See also: lower school, and the See also: lion's share of the work See also: fell upon Rogers
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The culmination of his labours was the opening, on his seventy-fifth birthday, of the Bishops-See also: gate Institute, including a See also: hall, with accommodation for 500
See also: people and a reference and lending library
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On the same See also: day a portrait and gift of See also: plate was made him at the Mansion See also: House, before a distinguished gathering
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See also: Lord Rosebery, then See also: Prime See also: Minister, observed in his speech that though bishoprics and deaneries had not been the rector's See also: lot, there was not a poor See also: Jew in Houndsditch or See also: Petticoat Lane whose face would not brighten when he saw him coming
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When he died, on the 19th of See also: January 1896, this might have served as an appropriate epitaph
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