Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Tractarians

Working list for DNB biographies of people related to the Tractarians (also known as the Oxford Movement). This list currently only contains participants or supporters.

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Autogenerated from the epitome pages in Category:Missing encyclopedic articles (Dictionary of National Biography)
 * Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander ✅
 * Thomas Chisholm Anstey ✅
 * Richard Bagot (bishop) ✅
 * Edward Bellasis (lawyer)
 * Edward Bickersteth Evangelical opponent of the Tractarians.
 * Charles James Blomfield ✅ Bishop called on to adjudicate between Tractarians and their opponents
 * John Rouse Bloxam
 * John William Bowden
 * Robert Brett
 * Charles Daubeny (archdeacon) Forerunner of Tractarians
 * William Dodsworth
 * Edward Ellerton
 * George Stanley Faber =s:Faber, George Stanley (DNB00), wrote on tractarianism
 * James Garbett opponent of tractarianism
 * William Henry Guillemard
 * James Robert Hope-Scott
 * John Jebb (bishop) ✅
 * John Keble ✅
 * Alexander Knox
 * James Bowling Mozley
 * Thomas Mozley
 * Henry Garrett Newland
 * John Henry Newman John Henry Newman (1801-1890), cardinal; educated at Dr. Nicholas's school at Ealing; matriculated from Trinity College, Oxford, 1816, where he gained a scholarship, 1818: B.A.,1820; fellow of Oriel, 1822; curate of St. Clement's, Oxford, 1824; vice-principal of Alban Hall, Oxford, 1825; assisted the principal, Dr. Whately, in his Logic; tutor of Oriel College, Oxford, 1826, Richard Hurrell Froude being elected in the same year; Whitehall preacher, 1827; examiner in literae i jmawioTY*, 1827-8; influential in Hawkins's election to the provostship of Oriel College, Oxford, and was himself presented to the vicarage of St. Mary's, Oxford, vacated by Hawkins, 1828; resigned his fellowship, 1832, and went to the south of Europe with Hurrell Froude: wrote most of the Lyra Apostolica in Rome (1834); published Lead kindly light composed during his passage in an orange boat from Palermo to Marseilles, 1833; on his return, 1833, met William Palmer, Hurrell Froude, and Arthur Philip Perceval at Hugh James Rose's rectory at Hadleigh, and with them resolved to fight for tbe doctrine of apostolical succession and the integrity of the prayer-book; preached four o'clock sermons at St. Mary's, Oxfonl; commenced Tracts for the Times and published his book on Arians of the fourth Century 1833: found an ally in Dr. Pusey, who joined theOxford movement 1835; published in defence of Anglo-catholicisuiRomanism and Popular Protestantism 1837, and JustificationDisquisition on the Canon of Scripture andTractate on Antichrist 1838, and became editor of the British Critic; began to doubt the Anglican view, 1839; maintained inTra.-t XC. 1841, that the articles were opposed to Roman dogma ami errors, hut not to catholic teaching, a view which raiswi a storm of indignation, and brought the tractarians under the official ban: retired to Littlernore, 184*, and passed the next three yearn in prayer, fasting, and seclusion; formally retracted all he had said against the Romish church and resigned the living of St. Mary's, nxfnnl, 1843; received into tin- Roman church, 1846; wait to Rome, 1846, and was ordained priest and created D.D.; returned to Englajid to establish the oratory at Rirniini;liani, 1847, and London, I860; publishedTwelve Lectures 1860, and in his Lectures on the present Position of Catholics 1861, exposed the moral turpitude of Achilli, an apostate monk, which led to a libel action, Ui which Newman was fined 100., although he established bis facto, 1853: rector of the Dublin Catholic University, 1864-8; laid down the aims and principles of education in Idea of* a University; published Apologia pro Vita sua 1864, in answer to &quot;baric- Kingslf.v, who in Macmillau's Magazine had remarked that Newman did not consider truth a necessary virtue; asserted that papal prerogatives cannot touch the civil allegiance of catholics in his 4 Letter to the Duke of Norfolk; honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, 1877; formally created cardinal of St. George in Velabro, 1879. His guiding motive was the conception of an infallible church.
 * Frederick Oakeley ✅
 * James Thomas O'Brien
 * Frederick Apthorp Paley
 * William Palmer (theologian) ✅
 * Henry Phillpotts Opponent of tractarianism
 * Edward Bouverie Pusey Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882), regius professor of Hebrew at Oxford and canon of Christ Church; was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1825; elected, 1822, a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, where he was brought into contact and intimacy with his brother-fellows, Keble and Newman: on the ad vice of Charles Lloyd (1784-1829) studied oriental languages and biblical criticism at Gbttiugeu, Berlin, and Bonn, 1825-7; appointed regius professor o f Hebrew, Oxford, 1828; with his assistant lectured nine times a week, and (1832) joined with his brother Philip and Edward Ellertou in founding the Pusey and Ellerton scholarships; became alarmed by the spread of rationalism in the church of England, and came to the conclusion that it could only be checked by the conviction in the minds of her defenders of her divine institution: began to work with Newman and Keble on Tracts for the Times 1833, and was mainly instrumental in bringing about their alteration from stirring appeals to solid doctrinal treatises; produced Tracts on baptism, 1835, and Tracts on the holy eucharist, 1836; when called upon to make some form of declaration which would clearly show his loyalty to the English church (1839), published his Letter to the Bishop of Oxford in which he distinguished between Anglican and Roman doctrine, and also separated himself from ultra protestautinterpretations of the Thirty-nine Articles; identified himself with Newman when the heads of houses condemned Newman's explanation of the articles in Tract No. XC. 1841, and from that time became the leader of the Oxford movement; suspended from the office of university preacher on a charge of heresy, 1843; resumed his preaching in 1846, and reiterated the teaching for which he believed he had been condemned; commenced the establishment of Anglican sisterhoods, 1845; was unceasing in his efforts to hinder secession to the Roman church among those who sympathised with his views; on the occasion of Archdeacon Denison's trial for heresy (1856) published his learned Doctrine of the Real Presence in support of the high Anglican view; engaged in later life in conflict with the latitudinarian tendency in Oxford and elsewhere; opposed the reform of the university in 1854, on the ground that it tended to substitute intellectual for moral and religious training, and in 1862 charged Benjamin Jowett, regius professor of Greek, before the vice-chancellor's court, with teaching opinions which were not in accordance with the doctrine of the church of England; desisted from his opposition to the increased  OM.lowiu.-nt of t !,.-(rook A  not to hear the case. to bring abool  the union of the English and Knuum.-hiiroae* from 18*6,  but saw tin-in annihilated by the decision* of the Vatican  eoun.-il in 1H7U; entertained further project* of union  with the Wesleyans and the Eastern ohun-h, wh  equally inuffivtual; died at Ascot Priory, Birmingham.  He consistently maintained that t:  church of England were contained in the writing* of the  Lit:: n.:.!...::.,,:.!,.  tnry, and thai their tignifloanoe had afterwards bean obscured. Pusev Home at Oxford, an institati    to carry on his work, inherited hU library, ✅
 * Francis Rivington
 * Frederic Rogers
 * Charles William Russell
 * William Edward Scudamore
 * Charles Seager
 * William Sewell ✅
 * Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth Opponent of tractarianism
 * Archibald Campbell Tait Archibald Campbell Tait (1811-1882), archbishop of Canterbury; born at Edinburgh, his family j being originally Aberdeenshire yeomen; brought up as a presbyterian and educated at Edinburgh High School. Glasgow University, and BalTol College, Oxford, where he was scholar; took a first-class in classics, 1833; fellow, 1834, and one of the most influential tutors in the university; took charge of the parish of Baldou, 1836: visited Germany, 1839; his conduct during the Oxford movement characterised by broadness of view and tolerance.: one of those who condemned Tract XC. isil,aud signal the counter-memorial in favour of Dr. Renn Dickon Hampden, 1847; succeeded Arnold as head-master of Rugby, 1842; appointed dean of Carlisle, 1849; made bishop of London, 1856; showed great firmness and at the same time broad-mindedness in his treatment of the church controversies of the day connected with ritualism and the freedom of opinion of the clergy, especially in theEssays and Reviewscase, 1860, and in the Colenso case, 1862; withdrew the licence of Poole, curate of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, on account of his practice of confession, 1858; showed himself a vigorous evangeliser, and. preached in omnibus yards, Covent Garden market, London, and elsewhere; began the building of new churches; founded the Diocesan Home Mission, 1857, and the Bishop of London's Fund, 1866; supported the Divorce Bill, 1857,. with modifications to suit the conscientious views of theclergy, aud also the relaxation in the forms of subscription demanded from the clergy, 1865; obtained the opening of Westminster Abbey for the evening services, and worked hard during the cholera epidemic, 1866: becamearchbishop of Canterbury, 1869: at first opposed the Irish. Church Bill, but subsequently recognised the inevitable,, the eventual settlement being largely owing to his patience and goal sense; showed sympathy with the Old Catholic j movement abroad, declared against the use of the Athanasian Creed in the public services, and was instrumental I in passing the Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874, though the final bill was not the measure which he had intended or desired; supported the Burial Act, 1880. No archbishop probably since the Reformation had so much weight in parliament or in the country generally. ✅ prominent clergyman at the time of tractarianism
 * John Walter
 * Joshua Watson
 * Robert Isaac Wilberforce ✅
 * Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman