- James Garbett
James Garbett (1802-1879) was a British academic and clergyman, who became Archdeacon of Chichester. [From 1851 to 1879. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=34647] He was parish priest of
Clayton-cum-Keymer ,Sussex from 1835 to his death. ("Concise Dictionary of National Biography")]He was a Fellow of
Brasenose College, Oxford . [From 1825 until 1836. [http://www.anglicanbooksrevitalized.us/Peter_Toons_Books_Online/History/evantheo1.htm] ] He was an opponent of theOxford Movement , and an Evangelical. [He used his book of Bampton lectures to attack the doctrine held by them onjustification by faith . [http://www.anglicanbooksrevitalized.us/Peter_Toons_Books_Online/History/evantheo3.htm] ]He was the anti-Tractarian candidate in the election of the
Professor of Poetry in 1841/2. The 'Oxford Movement' candidate to replaceJohn Keble in that position wasIsaac Williams . Slender as his credentials were for the post, Garbett won, in a politicised campaign run byAshurst Turner Gilbert , Principal of Brasenose. [ [http://www.anglicanbooksrevitalized.us/Peter_Toons_Books_Online/History/evantheo1.htm] . "Mr. Garbett's name had not been in the first instance suggested by any purely literary anxiety to provide for the discharge of the duties of the Poetry chair",Henry Parry Liddon 's "Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey" Chapter XXVII [http://anglicanhistory.org/pusey/liddon/2.27.html] .]Later in his book "Diocesan Synods and Convocation" he argued for the abolition of
synod s. [http://www.anglicanbooksrevitalized.us/Peter_Toons_Books_Online/History/evantheo2.htm]Works
*"Christ, as Prophet, Priest, and King: being a Vindication of the Church of England from Theological Novelties" (1842) Bampton Lectures
*"De Rei Poeticae Idea" (1843)
*"De Re Critica Praelectiones Oxonii Habitae" (1847)
*"Diocesan Synods and Convocation" (1852)Notes
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