Educated at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford University, he graduated with honours. in 1884, he became a deacon of the Charon, and was ordained as Curate of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, later. From 1885 to 1880, he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfeld, and: was concurrently head of Oxford House, Bethnal Green. Tu 1890, he was made Chaplain to the Bishop of St. Alban's, and, in the following year, Chaplain to' the Bishop of York, This. post he held until his appointment "as Rector of Bethnal Green in 1895, The following year saw him Roral Dean of Spitalsfelds and, a year later, he was made Canon St Paul's Cathedral in 1807, he was consecrated to the Bishopric of Stepney and Sulfragan to the Bishop of London, In 1001, he was appointed Dean of Chapels Royal, which title he still holds Ten years later, in 1911, he was mate Episcopal "Canon of Mount! Zion in St. George's College Church, Jerusalem, and, six years after. wards, he' was elected president of!
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