Frederick Spurling

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The Rev. Frederick William Spurling (3 February 1844 – 14 June 1914) was a British Anglican priest, university academic and theological writer.

The Church of England is the established church of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the most senior cleric, although the monarch is the supreme governor. The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the third century, and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury.

Spurling was educated at St Paul's School, London, and then won a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, obtaining a first-class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1866. After graduating, he was a college lecturer at Wadham in 1867 and 1868, before becoming an assistant master at Westminster School and Rugby School (1869 and 1871 respectively). In 1874, he returned to Oxford as a lecturer at Brasenose College, becoming a Tutor at Keble College, Oxford, in 1875. He was appointed as a member of the Governing Council of Keble College in 1897. He left Keble College in 1906 and was appointed as a residentiary canon of Chester Cathedral in 1907, having been an honorary canon there since 1899. He published a commentary on the Book of Joshua. He died on 14 June 1914, leaving a wife and five children.^[1]^[2]

St Paul's School is a selective independent school for boys aged 13–18, founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre (180,000m²) site by the River Thames, in Barnes, London.

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References

↑ "Spurling, Rev. Frederick William". Who Was Who, 1920–2008 . Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
↑ "Canon F. W. Spurling". The Times. 15 June 1914. p. 12.

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[1] "Spurling, Rev. Frederick William". Who Was Who, 1920–2008 . Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2009.

[2] "Canon F. W. Spurling". The Times. 15 June 1914. p. 12.