Biography:J. R. Illingworth

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Short description: English Anglican priest, philosopher, and theologian


The Reverend Canon

J. R. Illingworth
Born
John Richardson Illingworth

(1848-06-26)26 June 1848
London, England
Died22 August 1915(1915-08-22) (aged 67)
Longworth, England
Spouse(s)
Agnes Louisa Gutteres (m. 1883)
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Anglican)
ChurchChurch of England
Ordained
  • 1875 (deacon)
  • 1876 (priest)
Congregations served
St Mary's Church, Longworth
Academic background
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
Influences
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-disciplinePhilosophical theology[4]
School or traditionLiberal Anglo-Catholicism
Institutions
  • Jesus College, Oxford
  • Keble College, Oxford

John Richardson Illingworth (26 June 1848 – 22 August 1915) was an English Anglican priest, philosopher, and theologian. He was a notable member of the set of liberal Anglo-Catholic theologians based in Oxford, and he contributed two chapters to the influential Lux Mundi.[5]({{{1}}}, {{{2}}})

Early life and education

Illingworth was born in London on 26 June 1848[6] to an Anglo-Catholic family,[7] the second son of Edward Arthur Illingworth (1807–1883), chaplain to Middlesex House of Correction,({{{1}}}, {{{2}}}) and his wife, Mary Taylor.[8] He was educated at St Paul's School, an all-boys public school in London.[9] As a child, he worshipped at St Alban's Church, Holborn, and at All Saints, Margaret Street.[9] He won both an exhibition and a scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.[10] He then studied literae humaniores (classical studies) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and achieved first-class honours in both mods and greats,({{{1}}}, {{{2}}}) graduating in 1871 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[11]

In 1900, Illingworth was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree by the University of Edinburgh.[12][13]

Career

St Mary's Church, Longworth

From 1872 to 1883, Illingworth was a Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford, and a Tutor of Keble College, Oxford.[14] He was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1875 and as a priest in 1876.[15] From 1883 until his death, he was Rector of St Mary's Church, Longworth in the Diocese of Oxford.[14] He was also a Select Preacher of the University of Oxford from 1882 to 1891 and of the University of Cambridge from 1884 to 1895.[14] In 1894, he gave the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford; the series was titled "Personality, Human and Divine".({{{1}}}, {{{2}}}) He was made an honorary canon of Christ Church, Oxford, on 6 February 1905.({{{1}}}, {{{2}}})

Personal life

In June 1883, Illingworth became engaged to Agnes Louisa Gutteres.[16] They were married at St Bartholomew's Church in Nymet Rowland, Devon, on 2 August 1883.[17]

Illingworth died on 22 August 1915 in Longworth, aged 67,({{{1}}}, {{{2}}}) and was buried at St Mary's Church.[18]

Selected works

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Patrick 2009, p. 260.
  2. ↑ Patrick 2009, p. 258.
  3. ↑ Avis, Paul (1989). "The Atonement". in Wainwright, Geoffrey. Keeping the Faith: Essays to Mark the Centenary of Lux Mundi. London. p. 137.  Cited in Young 1992, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Cantelon 1951.
  5. ↑ "J. R. Illingworth". The Spectator: p. 8. 3 November 1917. http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/3rd-november-1917/8/j-r-illingworth. Retrieved 5 April 2017. 
  6. ↑ Bengtsson 2006.
  7. ↑ England 1997, p. 78.
  8. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 3.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 5.
  10. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 6.
  11. ↑ Foster 1893, p. 514.
  12. ↑ "University Intelligence". The Times (London) (36080): p. 8. 3 March 1900. 
  13. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 174.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson" 2014.
  15. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 31.
  16. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 67.
  17. ↑ A. L. Illingworth 1917, p. 72.
  18. ↑ Patrick 2009, p. 278.

Bibliography

  • Bengtsson, Jan Olof (2006). "Illingworth, John Richardson (1848–1915)". in Grayling, A. C.; Goulder, Naomi; Pyle, Andrew. The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-975469-4. 
  • Cantelon, John Edward (1951). John Richardson Illingworth: Philosophical Theologian (PhD thesis). Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC 54824068.
  • England, Richard (1997). Aubrey Moore and the Anglo-Catholic Assimilation of Science in Oxford (PhD thesis). Toronto: University of Toronto. hdl:1807/11055. ISBN 978-0-612-27641-3.
  • Foster, Joseph (1893). Oxford Men and Their Colleges, 1880–1892. Oxford: James Parker and Co.. 
  • Hoskins, Richard (1999). "Social and Transcendent: The Trinitarian Theology of John Richardson Illingworth Re‐Examined". International Journal of Systematic Theology 1 (2): 185–202. doi:10.1111/1463-1652.00013. ISSN 1468-2400. 
  • Illingworth, Agnes Louisa, ed (1917). The Life and Work of John Richardson Illingworth. London: John Murray. https://archive.org/details/lifeworkofjohnri00illiiala. Retrieved 12 October 2018. 
  • Illingworth, J. R. (1894). Personality, Human and Divine: Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1894. London: Macmillan and Co.. https://archive.org/details/personalityhuman189400illi. Retrieved 12 October 2018. 
  • "Illingworth, Rev. John Richardson". Who Was Who. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U187450. 
  • Patrick, James A. (2009). "John Richardson Illingworth and Reason's Romance: The Idealist Apology in Late-Victorian England". Anglican and Episcopal History 78 (3): 249–278. ISSN 0896-8039. 
  • Venn, John; Venn, J. A. (1947). Alumni Cantabrigienses. 2 (3). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 
  • Young, David (1992). F. D. Maurice and Unitarianism. Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263395.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-826339-5. https://archive.org/details/fdmauriceunitari00youn. Retrieved 21 May 2019. 

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