"Archbishop of Canterbury" Frederick Temple Hand Written Section From Letter COA

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Frederick Temple
(30 November 1821 – 23 December 1902) was an
English
academic
,
teacher
,
churchman
, and
Archbishop of Canterbury
, from 1896 until his death.
Temple was born in
Santa Maura
, one of the
Ionian Islands
, the son of Major
Octavius Temple
, who was subsequently appointed lieutenant-governor of
Sierra Leone
. On his retirement, Major Temple settled in
Devon
and contemplated a farming life for his son Frederick, giving him a practical training to that end. Temple's grandfather was
William Johnson Temple
,
Rector
of
Mamhead
in
Devon
, who is mentioned several times in
James Boswell
's
Life of Johnson
. Temple was sent to
Blundell's School
,
Tiverton
, and soon showed signs of being suited to a different career. He retained a warm affection for the school, where he did well both academically and at physical activities, especially walking. The family was not wealthy, and Temple knew he would have to earn his own living. He took the first step by winning a Blundell scholarship at
Balliol College, Oxford
before he was seventeen. The
Tractarian Movement
had begun five years earlier, but the memorable
Tract 90
had not yet been written. In the intellectual and religious excitement, he drew closer to the camp of "the Oxford Liberal Movement." In 1842 he took a
double first
and was elected fellow of Balliol, and lecturer in
mathematics
and
logic
. Four years later he was ordained, and, with the aim of improving the education of the very poor, he accepted the headship of
Kneller Hall
, a college founded by the government for the training of masters of
workhouses
and penal schools. The experiment was not successful, and Temple himself advised its abandonment in 1855. He then accepted a school-inspectorship, which he held until he went to teach at
Rugby School
in 1858. In the meantime he had attracted the admiration of
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
, and in 1856 he was appointed
Chaplain-in-Ordinary
to
Queen Victoria
. In 1857 he was
select preacher
at his university. As archbishop he presided in 1897 over the decennial
Lambeth Conference
. In the same year Temple and
Archbishop of York
William Maclagan
issued a joint response to
Apostolicae curae
, an
encyclical
of the pope which denied the validity of Anglican orders. In 1899 the archbishops again acted together, when an appeal was addressed to them by the united episcopate, to rule on the use of
incense
in divine service and on the carrying of lights in liturgical processions. After hearing the arguments the two archbishops decided against both practices.
During his archbishopric Temple was deeply distressed by the divisions which were weakening the
Anglican Church
, and many of his most memorable sermons were calls for unity.
Painting by
Sydney Prior Hall
depicting Archbishop Temple's collapse in the
House of Lords
while delivering a speech on the
Education Bill
, 1902.
His first charge as primate on "Disputes in the Church" was felt to be a most powerful plea for a more catholic and a more charitable temper, and again and again during the closing years of his life he came back to this same theme. He was zealous also in the cause of foreign missions, and in a sermon preached at the opening of the new century he urged that a supreme obligation rested upon Britain at this epoch in the world's history to seek to evangelise all nations. In 1900 he presided over the World Temperance Congress in London, and on one occasion preached in the interests of women's education.On 9 August 1902, he discharged the important duties of his office at the
coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
, and two days later was received in private audience by the King and Queen to be presented with the
Royal Victorian Chain
, a new decoration founded by the King in honour of his mother. In early October that year he visited
St. David′s Theological College
in
Lampeter
, Wales, for its 75th anniversary. The strain at his advanced age told upon his health, however. During a speech which he delivered in the
House of Lords
on 2 December 1902 on the
Education Bill of that year
, he was taken ill, and, though he revived sufficiently to finish his speech, he never fully recovered, and died on 23 December 1902. He was interred in
Canterbury Cathedral
four days later, where his grave is located in the cloister garden. His second son,
William Temple
, became Archbishop of Canterbury thirty-nine years later and is buried close to him.