Thomas Pelham Dale

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Thomas Pelham Dale (born April 3, 1821 in Greenwich , † April 19, 1892 ) was an Anglo-Catholic ritualistic clergyman.

Life

Thomas Pelham Dale studied theology at King's College , London and from 1841 to 1845 at Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . In 1845 he was ordained a deacon and in 1846 he was ordained a priest . He was subsequently a curate at Camden Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey. From 1847 to 1881 he was Rector of St. Vedast Foster Lane in London. Due to his high academic education, he was also from 1851 to 1858 librarian at Sion College in London. In 1858 he began with John Hall Gladstone to work on the refractive power of liquid substances. In 1861 he founded Ferard with Elizabeth, Bishop Tait and two other ladies of the society the North London Deaconess Institution (the first English deaconess institution) at London's King's Cross.

Dale first used liturgical vestments in 1873 and met protest from his church. He was prosecuted and imprisoned under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 for his ritual practices. In 1876 he joined the Society of the Holy Cross and was arrested again for his rite in 1878 and imprisoned in Holloway Prison in 1880 and released in 1881 on the basis of great sympathy from the people.

Publications

  • A life's motto. Illustrated By Biographical Examples ... By The Rev. Thomas Pelham Dale ... With A Frontispiece By JD Watson
  • The life and letters of Thomas Pelham Dale ( Online Vol. 1 ), ( Online Vol. 2 ) (edited by his daughter Helen Pelham Dale)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ritualism. In: zeno.org. Accessed December 31, 2014 .
  2. ^ Anton Sebastian: A Dictionary of the History of Science. Taylor & Francis, 2001, ISBN 9781850704188 , p. 288. Limited preview in Google Book Search

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personal data
SURNAME Dale, Thomas Pelham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Catholic ritualistic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1892