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Phelps was educated at Charterhouse [5] and Oriel College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1872, graduating B.A. in 1877. [6] He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1879, [7] but not as a priest until 1896. His career was spent as a Fellow and Tutor at Oriel. He was also an Alderman of Oxford and a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress from 1905 to 1909. [8]
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