William Henry Fremantle

William Henry Fremantle (born December 12, 1831 in Swanbourne , Buckinghamshire , † December 24, 1916 in London ) was a British clergyman and dean of Ripon .

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William Henry Fremantle was the second son of the politician Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe (1798-1890) and his wife Louisa Elizabeth († 1875), daughter of Field Marshal George Nugent, 1st Baronet (1757-1849). His younger brother was the Admiral Edmund Robert Fremantle (1836–1929) and his uncle the clergyman William Robert Fremantle (1807–1895).

Fremantle was first trained at the Cheam School before moving to Eton College , which was under the direction of Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789-1862) at the time. Then Fremantle continued his education at Balliol College , run by Richard Jenkyns (1782-1854) . In 1853 he graduated as Literae Humaniores . In 1854 he was awarded the English Essay Prize and in the same year Fremantle was accepted as a Fellow of All Souls College . In 1855 he was the bishop of Oxford , Samuel Wilberforce to deacon and 1854 priests ordained. In 1857 Fremantle was appointed Vicar of Lewknor . During his eight-year tenure, he was called in 1861 by Archibald Campbell Tait , Bishop of London, to be chaplain of Fulham Palace .

On August 6, 1863, he married Isabella Maria († 1901), a daughter of Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet (1805–1863), one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance . With her Fremantle had three sons and two daughters, including the doctor and politician Francis Edward Fremantle (1872-1943) and Henry Eardley Stephen Fremantle (1874-1931), newspaper editor and politician in South Africa. In 1865 he was appointed rector of St Mary's in Bryanston Square, London. Fremantle held this office for 17 years. In 1882 he returned to Balliol College as a fellow, teacher and chaplain and was called to the Canterbury Canon that same year . Fremantle hoped to establish Liberal Theology at the university, but met active resistance from part of the faculty. His Bampton Lectures from 1883 were published two years later under the title The World as the Subject of Redemption . His article Theology in its changed conditions , published in The Fortnightly Review in 1887 , was condemned by the university pulpit. Among other things, he was forbidden to hold lectures on the English Reformation .

In 1895, Fremantle accepted the post of Dean of Ripon , succeeding his uncle William Robert Fremantle. With the support of his Bishop William Boyd Carpenter (1841-1918), the cathedral developed into a liberal Protestant stronghold. In 1898 Fremantle was one of the founding members of the Churchmen's Union for the Advancement of Liberal Religious Thought . In the following years he wrote numerous articles for the Church Gazette , the Liberal Churchman and the Modern Churchman . He also campaigned for international conflict arbitration and was a champion for the mutual reduction of weapons.

After the death of his first wife, he married Sophia Frances, daughter of Major TG Stuart, on April 16, 1903. Fremantle died in London and was buried three days later in Essendon , Hertfordshire .

Fonts (selection)

• A collection of the judgments of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in ecclesiastical cases relating to doctrine and discipline . John Murray, London 1865 ( online ) - as editor with George Charles Brodrick (1831–1903).
• The Gospel of the Secular Life. Sermons preached at Oxford . Cassell, London 1882 ( online )
• The world as the subject of redemption; being an attempt to set forth the functions of the Church as designed to embrace the whole race of mankind. Eight lectures London Rivingstons 1885, ( online ).
• Theology in its changed conditions . In: The Fortnightly Review . March 1887, pp. 442-459.
• William Henry Draper (Ed.): Recollections of Dean Fremantle, chiefly by himself . Cassell and Company, London / New York / Toronto / Melbourne 1921 ( online ).

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• SJD Green: Fremantle, William Henry (1831-1916). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 21: Freud – Gibberd. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861371-7 , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), As of 2004, accessed September 13, 2012.

Web links

Wikisource: Dr. WH Fremantle (Obituary)  - (English)