English Anglican bishop (1841–1918)
William Boyd Carpenter
Boyd Carpenter in 1889
Born (1841-03-26 ) 26 March 1841Died 26 October 1918(1918-10-26) (aged 77) Occupation Anglican cleric Years active 1878–1918 Spouses Harriet Charlotte Peers Annie Maude Gardner Parents Henry Carpenter Hester Boyd Relatives
William Boyd Carpenter KCVO cleric in theChurch of England who becameBishop of Ripon andRoyal Chaplain toQueen Victoria .
William Boyd Carpenter was the second son of Henry Carpenter,perpetual curate ofSt Michael's Church, Aigburth ,Liverpool , who married (marriage licence 1837 in Derry) Hester Boyd, ofDerry , sister ofArchibald Boyd ,Dean of Exeter .[ 1]
Carpenter was the uncle of Mrs Henry Williams of Moor Park House,Beckwithshaw , North Yorkshire. In 1897 he consecratedSt Michaels and All Angels Church at Beckwithshaw, after she and her husband had funded its construction.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
He was an advocate for the poor and against the caste system in India, stating during a religious lecture at the University of Oxford that "we must show fierce scorn against the hateful laws of caste and proclaim the natural equality of all men".[ 5]
Education and career [ edit ] "A man Right Reverend and Well-Beloved"; Boyd Carpenter as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward ) inVanity Fair Educated at theLiverpool Institute , before going up toSt Catharine's College ,Cambridge , Boyd Carpenter was appointedHulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1878.[ 6] curacies , wasVicar of Christ Church,Lancaster Gate , from 1879 to 1884,Canon ofWindsor in 1882–84, and after 1884Bishop of Ripon . In 1887 he was appointedBampton Lecturer atOxford , and in 1895 Pastoral Lecturer onTheology at Cambridge. In June 1901, he received anhonorary doctorate of Divinity from theUniversity of Glasgow .[ 7] evangelical leanings to abroad church outlook.[ 8]
In 1904 and 1913 he visited theUnited States and delivered the Noble lectures atHarvard . He wasChaplain-in-Ordinary toQueen Victoria ,Edward VII , andGeorge V . He resigned hissee in 1911 on the grounds of ill-health and became a Canon andSub-Dean ofWestminster .
Boyd Carpenter served asClerk of the Closet from 1903 to 1918.
His publications include:[ 9]
Commentary on Revelation (1879)Permanent Elements of Religion (Bampton lectures, 1889)Popular History of the Church of England (1900)Witness to the Influence of Christ (1905)Some Pages of my Life (1911)Life's Tangled Thread (1912)The Apology of Experience (1913)The Burning Bush and Other Sermons. (1893)In 1864 Carpenter married his first wife, Harriet Charlotte Peers, daughter of the Rev. J. W. Peers, of Chislehampton. They had four sons and four daughters, including:
Henry John Boyd-Carpenter (1865–1923), colonial official in Egypt, where he was Chief Inspector to the Ministry of Public Instruction, then Inspector General of Schools; who married inEpperstone on 16 December 1902 Ethel Ley, daughter ofSir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet , of Epperstone Manor, Nottinghamshire.[ 10] William Boyd-Carpenter (1869–1954). Annie Boyd-Carpenter (1870-1927) marriedFrancis Wentworth-Sheilds ,Bishop of Armidale . Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter (1873–1937),Conservative MP, father ofJohn Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter (1908–1998), also a Conservative MP.Harriet died in January 1877 and in 1883 Carpenter married secondly, Annie Maude, daughter of publisher[ 11] [ 12] [ 13]
The composerStephen Oliver (1950–1992), through his mother (Charlotte) Hester Girdlestone born 1911, granddaughter of Carpenter), and his nephew, the comedianJohn Oliver (b. 1977), are descendants.[ 14]
A medieval knight sporting an early example of the Carpenterarms ^ David Morris,'Bishop Boyd Carpenter: Sheep or Shepherd in the Eugenics Movement?' Archived 6 January 2009 at theWayback Machine ,The Galton Institute Newsletter , 55, June 2005 ^ Yorkshire Gazette ^ Cottingley Connect: St Michael and All Angels church Retrieved 17 January 2014^ Leeds Times ^ Carpenter, William Boyd (1889).The permanent elements of religion : eight lectures preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1887 . ^ "Carpenter, William Boyd (CRPR860WB)" .A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.^ "Glasgow University Jubilee" .The Times . Retrieved5 January 2024 – via Newspapers.com.^ Stephenson, A. M. G.; Brodie, Marc. "Major, Henry Dewsbury Alves (1871–1961)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/34839 .William Boyd Carpenter, bishop of Ripon, an eloquent evangelical who had developed broad-church leanings. (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.) ^ H. D. A. Major,‘Carpenter, William Boyd (1841–1918)’ , rev. H. C. G. Matthew,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ^ "Marriages" .The Times . Retrieved5 January 2024 – via Newspapers.com.^ Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, Kristine Moruzi, Taylor & Francis, 2016, footnote 15 ^ Charles Mosley, editor,Burke's Peerage and Baronetage , 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 344. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition. ^ Armorial Families, A. C. Fox-Davies, T. C. & E. C. Jack (Edinburgh), 1895, p. 837 ^ Pollock, Adam (2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography".Oliver, Stephen Michael Harding (1950-1992), composer Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/51267 . Archived fromthe original . Retrieved2 October 2016 . (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.) public domain : Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Carpenter, William Boyd".New International Encyclopedia
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Carpenter, William Boyd".New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
