William Stubbs
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The Right Reverend William Stubbs |
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| Bishop of Oxford | |
Portrait by Hubert von Herkomer, 1885
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| Diocese | Diocese of Oxford |
| In office | 1889 to 1901 |
| Predecessor | John Mackarness |
| Successor | Francis Paget |
| Other posts |
Regius Professor of Modern History (1866-1884) Bishop of Chester (1884-1889) |
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| Consecration | 25 April 1884 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 June 1825 High Street, Knaresborough, England |
| Died | 22 April 1901 (aged 75) Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Spouse | Catherine Dollar |
| Education | Ripon Grammar School |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
William Stubbs (21 June 1825 – 22 April 1901) was an English historian and Anglican bishop. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford between 1866 and 1884. He was Bishop of Chester from 1884 to 1889 and Bishop of Oxford from 1889 to 1901.
The son of William Morley Stubbs, a solicitor, he was born at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and was educated at Ripon Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1848, obtaining a first-class in Literae Humaniores and a third in mathematics.
He was elected a fellow of Trinity College, and held the college living of Navestock, Essex, from 1850 to 1866. In 1859 he married Catherine, daughter of John Dellar, of Navestock, and they had several children. He was librarian at Lambeth Palace, and in 1862 was an unsuccessful candidate for the Chichele Professorship of Modern History at Oxford.
In 1866, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and held the chair until 1884. His lectures were thinly attended, and he found them a distraction from his historical work. Some of his statutory lectures are published in his Lectures on Mediaeval and Modern History. In 1872, he founded Oxford University's School of Modern History, allowing postclassical history to be taught as a distinct subject for the first time.
He was rector of Cholderton, Wiltshire, from 1875 to 1879, when he was appointed a canon of St Paul's Cathedral. He served on the ecclesiastical courts commission of 1881-1883, and wrote the weighty appendices to the report. On 25 April 1884 he was consecrated Bishop of Chester, and in 1889 became Bishop of Oxford. He was a Member of the Chetham Society, and served as Vice-President from 1884.
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