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WILLIAM ROGERS (1819-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 458 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:ROGERS (1819-1896)  , 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 . Educated at See also:Eton and at Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, he entered See also:Durham University in 1842, to study See also:theology, and was ordained in 1843 . 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 . 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 See also:scope until the whole See also:parish was a network of See also:schools . In 1858 he was appointed a member of the Royal See also: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 . In 1863 the See also:bishop of London -gave him the living of St Botolph Bishopsgate . See also:Rogers was also made a See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's, and in 1857 he had been appointed See also:Chaplain in See also:Ordinary to the See also:Queen . 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 . He believed in See also:secular education, leaving doctrinal training to parents and See also:clergy . 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 See also:rest of his See also:life . The See also:Cowper See also:Street Schools, costing £20,000, were the See also:practical result of his See also:energy . His next See also:great work was the reconstruction of See also:Edward See also:Alleyn's charity at See also:Dulwich .

The new college was opened in 1870; new buildings were erected for the See also:

lower school, and the See also:lion's See also:share of the work See also:fell upon Rogers . The See also:culmination of his labours was the opening, on his seventy-fifth birthday, of the Bishops-See also:gate See also:Institute, including a See also:hall, with See also:accommodation for 500 See also:people and a reference and lending library . On the same See also:day a portrait and See also:gift of See also:plate was made him at the See also:Mansion See also:House, before a distinguished gathering . See also:Lord See also:Rosebery, then See also:Prime See also:Minister, observed in his speech that though bishoprics and deaneries had not been the See also:rector's See also:lot, there was not a poor See also:Jew in Houndsditch or See also:Petticoat See also:Lane whose See also:face would not brighten when he saw him coming . When he died, on the 19th of See also:January 1896, this might have served as an appropriate See also:epitaph .

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