Meyrick Goulburn

Edward Meyrick Goulburn^[1] (11 February 1818 – 3 May 1897^[2]) was an English churchman.

Son of Mr Serjeant Goulburn, M.P., recorder of Leicester, and nephew of the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, chancellor of the exchequer in the ministries of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, he was born in London, and was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1839 he became fellow and tutor of Merton, and was ordained in 1842.^[3] For some years he held the living of Holywell, Oxford, and was chaplain to Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of the diocese.^[4] In 1850 he delivered the Bampton Lectures at Oxford on The Resurrection of the Body. In 1849 he had succeeded Tait as headmaster of Rugby,^[5] but in 1857 he resigned, and accepted the charge of Quebec Chapel, Marylebone.

In 1858 he became a prebendary of St Paul's, and in 1859 vicar of St John's, Paddington. In 1866 he was made Dean of Norwich, and in that office exercised a long and marked influence on church life. A strong Conservative and a churchman of traditional orthodoxy, he was a keen antagonist of higher criticism and of all forms of rationalism.

His Thoughts on Personal Religion (1862) and The Pursuit of Holiness were well received; and he wrote the Life (1892) of his friend Dean Burgon, with whose doctrinal views he was substantially in agreement. He resigned the deanery in 1889, and died at Tunbridge Wells on 3 May 1897. There is a memorial to him at Aynho.^[6]

See Life by B. Compton (1899).

References

↑ NPG details
↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ Ordination. The Times Thursday 26 May 1842; pg. 6; Issue 17993; col A 1889
↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
↑ Rugby School The Times Tuesday 11 December 1849; pg. 5; Issue 20356; col A
↑ The Times, Thursday 17 June 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35232; col F Court Circular

External links

Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Diocese of Norwich

Norwich Cathedral Bishop's House, Norwich Diocesan House, Norwich

Office holders	The Bishop of Norwich, Graham James The Bishop suffragan of Thetford, Alan Winton The Bishop suffragan of Lynn, Jonathan Meyrick AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough Dean-designate of Norwich, Jane Hedges Vice-Dean of Norwich, Jeremy Haselock The Archdeacon of Norwich, Jan McFarlane The Archdeacon of Lynn, John Ashe The Archdeacon of Norfolk, Steven Betts

Historic offices	Bishop suffragan of Ipswich (1899–1909) Archdeacon of Suffolk (12th century–1914; formed Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich) Archdeacon of Sudbury (12th century–1837; transferred to Ely)

Deans of Norwich

Early modern	William Castleton John Salisbury John Christopherson John Boxall John Harpsfield John Salisbury George Gardiner Thomas Dove John Jegon George Montgomery Edmund Suckling John Hassal John Crofts Herbert Astley John Sharp Henry Fairfax Humphrey Prideaux Thomas Cole Robert Butts John Baron Thomas Bellock Edward Townshend Philip Lloyd

Late modern	Joseph Turner George Pellew Meyrick Goulburn William Lefroy Henry Wakefield Henry Beeching John Willink David Cranage Herbert St Barbe Holland Norman Hook Alan Webster David Edwards Paul Burbridge Stephen Platten Graham Smith Jane Hedges (announced)

Authority control	VIAF: 35345338 ISNI: 0000 0000 8114 6626 GND: 122718461 SUDOC: 148383165

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