Temple, FREDERICK

Temple, FREDERICK, since 1896 Archbishop of Canterbury, was born 30th November 1821, the son of an officer, at Leukas in the Ionian Islands. He was educated at Tiverton and at Balliol College, Oxford, where in 1842 he graduated double-first, and was subsequently fellow and tutor of his college. Successively principal of Kneller Hall Training College, inspector of schools, and headmaster of Rugby, he became conspicuous in the theological world in 1860 as author of the first of the Essays and Reviews (q.v.). In 1868-70 he supported the disestablishment of the Irish Church, and was in 1869 consecrated Bishop of Exeter—a Broad Church successor to the High Church Dr Phillpotts (q.v.)—in spite of strong clerical opposition. He proved an admirable administrator, and in 1885 was promoted to the see of London. His Sermons preached in Rugby Chapel appeared in 1861; he was Bampton lecturer in 1884, and has taken an active part in temperance reform.