Maurice, John Frederick Denison (1834-1835)

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Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, May 7, 1823. [Only] s. of Michael. B. [Aug. 29, 1805], at Lowestoft. School, Frenchay, Gloucs. ' Matric. Michs. 1823. Migrated to Trinity Hall, Nov. 1825; (Civil Law Classes, 1st Class, 1826-7). Re-adm. at Trinity, May 17, 1867; M.A. 1867. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Jan. 26, 1826. ' Matric. from Exeter College, Oxford, Dec. 3, 1829; B.A. (Oxford) 1831; M.A. (Oxford) 1835. One of the original members of the ‘Apostles’ Club. Edited the Metropolitan Quarterly Magazine, 1825, and the London Literary Chronicle until 1830. Ord. deacon, 1834; priest, 1835. Chaplain of Guy's Hospital, London, 1836-46. Professor of Modern History and English Literature at King's College, London, 1840-6; and Professor of Ecclesiastical History, 1846-53. Boyle Lecturer and Warburton Lecturer, 1845. Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn, 1846-60. Helped to found Queen's College, London, 1848. Charges of heterodoxy brought against him in the Quarterly Review, 1851; cleared by a Committee of Enquiry, 1852, but asked to retire by the Council of King's College, after the publication of his Theological Essays, 1853. First Principal of the Working Men's College in Red Lion Square, London. P.C. of the Chapel of St Peter's, Vere Street, London, 1860-6. Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, 1866-72. V. of St Edward's, Cambridge, 1870-2. Cambridge Preacher at Whitehall, 1871. Married (1) 1837, Anna Barton (who died 1845), and (2) 1849, Georgiana, dau. of Francis Hare-Naylor. Kingsley called him ‘the most beautiful human soul' he had known; another friend described him as the most saintlike’ or if he ‘dared use the words, the most Christlike individual’ he had ever known. Died Apr. 1, 1872; buried at Highgate. A bibliography of his very many writings, by G. J. Gray, was published in 1885. M.I. in St Edward's Church, Cambridge, and bust in University Library. Father of John F. (above). (Al. Oxon.; D.N.B., which calls him Frederick Denison only.)

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