- George Anthony Denison
George Anthony Denison (
11 December 1805 -21 March 1896 ) was aChurch of England priest.Life
Brother of politician
John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington , he was born atOssington ,Nottinghamshire , and educated at Eton andChrist Church, Oxford . In 1828 he was elected fellow ofOriel ; and after a few years there as a tutor, during which he was ordained and acted as curate atCuddesdon , he became rector ofBroadwindsor ,Dorset (1838). He became aprebendary of Sarum in 1841 and ofWells in 1849. In 1851 he was preferred to the valuable living ofEast Brent ,Somerset , and in the same year was madeArchdeacon ofTaunton .For many years Archdeacon Denison represented the extreme
High Tory party not only in politics but in the Church, regarding all progressive movements in education or theology as abomination, and vehemently repudiating thehigher criticism from the days of "Essays and Reviews " (1860) to those of "Lux Mundi " (1890). In 1853 he resigned his position as examining chaplain to thebishop of Bath and Wells owing to his pronouncedeucharistic views. A suit on the complaint of a neighboringclergyman ensued and after various complications Denison was condemned by the archbishops court at Bath (1856); but on appeal theCourt of Arches and theprivy council quashed this judgment on a technical plea.The result was to make Denison a keen champion of the ritualistic school. He edited "
The Church and State Review " (1862-1865). Secular state education and theconscience clause were anathema to him. Until the end of his life he remained a protagonist in theological controversy and a keen fighter againstlatitudinarianism andliberalism ; but the sharpest religious or political differences never broke his personal friendships and his Christian charity. Among other things for which he will be remembered was his origination of theharvest festival .References
*1911
External links
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/bios/gadenison.html Project Canterbury: George Anthony Denison]
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/misc/denison.html "Ritualism" and The Real Presence by G.A. Denison]
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