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WILLIAM STUBBS (1825-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1049 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:STUBBS (1825-1901)  , See also:English historian and See also:bishop of See also:Oxford, son of See also:William See also:Morley See also:Stubbs, See also:solicitor, of See also:Knaresborough, See also:Yorkshire, was See also:born on the 21st of See also:June 1825, and was educated at the See also:Ripon See also:grammar school and See also:Christ See also:Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1848, obtaining a first-class in chapters, the See also:book does not afford an adequate See also:idea of his See also:place as a writer of See also:history . What that is cannot be determined without taking into See also:account the prefaces to some of the volumes which he edited for the Rolls See also:series . Several of them contain monographs on parts, or the whole, of the author's See also:work, written with remarkable See also:literary skill . In these his See also:language is vigorous and dignified; he states the results of his labour and thought with freshness and lucidity; tells numberless stories in a most delightful manner, and exhibits a wonderful See also:talent for the See also:representation of See also:personal See also:character; the many portraits of historic persons of all orders which he draws in these prefaces are as brilliant in See also:execution as they are exact and convincing . Among the most notable examples of his work for the Rolls series are the prefaces to See also:Roger of Hoveden, the Gesta regum of William of See also:Malmesbury, the Gesta Henrici II., and the Memorials of St . See also:Dunstan . Both in See also:England and See also:America Bishop Stubbs was universally acknowledged as the See also:head of all English See also:historical scholars, and no English historian of his See also:time was held in equal honoui in See also:European countries . Among his many distinctions he was D.D. and hon . D.C.L. of Oxford, LL.D. of See also:Cambridge and See also:Edinburgh, See also:Doctor in utroque jure of See also:Heidelberg; an hon. member of the university of See also:Kiev, and of the Prussian, Bavarian and Danish See also:academies; he received the Prussian See also:order Pour le Write, and was corresponding member of the See also:Academic See also:des sciences morales et politiques of the See also:French See also:Institute . Stubbs was a High Churchman whose doctrines and practice were grounded on learning and a veneration for antiquity . His opinions were received with marked respect by his See also:brother prelates, and he acted as an See also:assessor to the See also:archbishop in the trial of the bishop of See also:Lincoln . His tastes were those of a student, and he did not disguise his dislike of public functions and the See also:constant little journeys which take up so much of a bishop's time .

Nevertheless he fulfilled all his episcopal duties with See also:

diligence; and threw all his See also:heart into the performance of those of a specially spiritual nature, such as his addresses at confirmations and to those on whom he conferred orders . As a ruler of the Church he showed See also:wisdom and courage, and disregarded any effort to See also:influence his policy by clamour . In character he was modest, See also:kind and sympathetic, ever ready to help and encourage serious students, generous in his See also:judgment of the See also:works of others-, a most cheery See also:companion, full of wit and See also:humour . His wit was often used as a weapon of See also:defence, for he did not suffer See also:fools gladly . An attack of illness in See also:November 1900 seriously impaired his See also:health . He was able, however, to attend the funeral of See also:Queen See also:Victoria on the and of See also:February 1901, and preached a remarkable See also:sermon before the See also:king and the See also:German See also:emperor on the following See also:day . His illness became See also:critical on the loth of See also:April, and he died on the ,22nd . In 1859 he had married See also:Catherine, daughter of See also:John See also:Dollar, of Navestock, and had a numerous See also:family . See Letters of William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, ed . W . H . See also:Hutton .

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