Charles Stubbs

Charles William Stubbs
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Born	(1845-09-03)September 3, 1845 Liverpool, England
Died	May 4, 1912(1912-05-04) (aged 66) Truro, England
Education	Liverpool Collegiate Institution; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Church	Church of England
Offices held	Dean of Ely, Bishop of Truro
Title	Right Reverend
Notes
1911 Encyclopedia

Charles William Stubbs (September 3, 1845 – May 4, 1912) was an English clergyman.

He was born in Liverpool and educated at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. As a clergyman he held several incumbencies, among them rector at Wavertree and Granborough. He took a great interest in the working classes and in social subjects, and was liberal both in his political and in his theological opinions. He was Dean of Ely 1894 to 1906 when he was appointed the fourth Bishop of Truro.
His proper style was The Right Reverend Charles William Stubbs, D.D.

Quotations

• "To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."

Selected works

• God and the People:the religious creed of a democrat, being selections from the writings of Joseph Mazzini; 2nd ed. 1896; G W E Russell, A Pocketful of Sixpences, London 1907, p 92
• Co-operation & Owenite Socialist Communities/The Land and the Labourers (1884)
• The Land and the Labourers (1893)
• Charles Kingsley and the Christian Social Movement (1899)
• Social Teachings of the Lord's Prayer (1900)
• The Christ of English Poetry (1906)
• Cambridge and its Story (1912)
• Hymns, including Christ was born on Christmas Night and Carol of King Cnut

External links

• Works by Charles Stubbs at Project Gutenberg

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Gott	Bishop of Truro 1906–1912	Succeeded by Winfrid Oldfield Burrows
Preceded by Charles Merivale	Dean of Ely 1893–1905	Succeeded by Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick