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Letters of William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901
Letters of William Stubbs Bishop of Oxford 18251901 Author:William Holden Hutton, William Stubbs Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. PROFESSOR AND CANON, 1866-1884 FOR seventeen years Stubbs had been a country parson ; now for eighteen he was to be an Oxford Professor. In neither case d... more »id the post exhaust his activities. AtNavestock, with all his earnest parochial work, he was able to lay deep foundations of learning, to show the firstfruits of his historical study, and to actively fulfil the duties of Lambeth Librarian. At Oxford duties even more engrossing, if not wider, beset him ; and while he was still Professor he was also at one time a country vicar, and later he was Canon of S. Paul's. Before he had well settled down in Oxford the death of his friend Dr. Shirley, who had been a fellow contributor to the Rolls Series and shared his interests in medieval history, left vacant the chair of Ecclesiastical History. Many expected that Stubbs, the foremost ecclesiastical historian in the land, would be appointed to fill the post. S. Giles's Road East, Oxford, November 28 (1866). My Dear Freeman,— Thanks for your long letter, which I have been expecting so long. It is very sad indeed about Shirley, but I imagine there has been little hope for the last month. I should like, you may be sure, to go back to Christ Church, but I see no symptoms of it for the present. I suppose Lord Derby will have no difficulty in putting in a good Divinity scholar like Liddon : the character of the chair has been hitherto rather Divinity than History—Shirley as we know was accidentally a good appointment, but it was very like an accident altogether. Plumptre is talked about, but I do hope that it will not be so. The Parkers have asked us to meet you at dinner on Thursday and we shall be glad indeed to see you. I have just got homefrom poor old Navestock, where I have been wishing the people good-bye, and am very t...« less