Thomas Strong (bishop)
Thomas Strong | |
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Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford | |
In office 1913–1917 | |
Preceded by | Charles Buller Heberden |
Succeeded by | Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston |
Personal details | |
Born | 24 October 1861 |
Died | 8 July 1944 | (aged 82)
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Thomas Banks Strong GBE (24 October 1861 – 8 July 1944) was an English theologian who was Bishop of Ripon and Oxford.[1] He was also Dean of Christ Church, Oxford and served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University during the First World War.[2]
Thomas Strong was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a second-class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1883.[3] He became a deacon in 1885 and a priest in 1886. At Christ Church, Strong was successively Lecturer (1884), Student (1888), Censor (1892), and then Dean (1901[4]–1920). He received the degree Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Oxford in January 1902.[5]
In 1920 he was appointed Bishop of Ripon, and in 1925 was translated as Bishop of Oxford, serving as such, and as Clerk of the Closet and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter until 1937.
Strong produced a number of theological publications.[6][7][8]
He became a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1918. He was buried at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, where there is a memorial stone with a Latin inscription.[9]
Selected books
- Christian Ethics: Eight Lectures (Longmans, Green and Co., 1896)
- A Manual of Theology (1903)
- God and the Individual (1903; Kessinger Publishing Company, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4368-5986-8)
- Lectures on the Method of Science (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906)
- Visitation Charge of the Bishop of Oxford at the Diocesan Visitation 1931 (Oxford University Press, 1931)
References
- ^ Ellie Clewlow, Strong, Thomas Banks (1861–1944), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, September 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36356
- ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
- ^ "Strong, Thomas Banks". The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. Volume III: N–Z. Oxford University Press. 1995. pp. 1887–1888.
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- ^ Strong, Thomas B., Internet Archive.
- ^ Books by Thomas Banks Strong, Alibris.
- ^ Thomas Banks Strong, Open Library.
- ^ Thomas Banks Strong (1861 – 1944) at Find a Grave
External links
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- Works by or about Thomas Strong at the Internet Archive
- Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury
- Strong, Thomas Banks (1861–1944) Bishop of Oxford letters, JANUS, University of Cambridge
- Pictures and photographs at the National Portrait Gallery (London)
- "Archival material relating to Thomas Strong". UK National Archives.
- 1861 births
- 1944 deaths
- People educated at Westminster School, London
- Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford
- English theologians
- 19th-century English Anglican priests
- 20th-century English Anglican priests
- Bishops of Ripon (modern diocese)
- Bishops of Oxford
- Clerks of the Closet
- Chancellors of the Order of the Garter
- Deans of Christ Church, Oxford
- Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
- Burials at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford