Edward Meyrick GoulburnNPG details (11 February 18182 or 3 May 1897"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ) was an English churchman.
Son of Mr Serjeant Edward Goulburn, M.P., recorder of Leicester, and nephew of the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, chancellor of the exchequer in the ministries of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, he was born in London, and was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1839, he became fellow and tutor of Merton, and was ordained in 1842.Ordination. The Times Thursday 26 May 1842; pg. 6; Issue 17993; col A 1889 For some years he held the living of Holywell, Oxford, and was chaplain to Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of the diocese."The Clergy List London, Hamilton & Co 1889 In 1850, he delivered the Bampton Lectures at Oxford on The Resurrection of the Body. In 1849, he had succeeded Tait as headmaster of Rugby,Rugby School The Times Tuesday 11 December 1849; pg. 5; Issue 20356; col A but in 1857 he resigned, and accepted the charge of Quebec Chapel, Marylebone.
In 1858 he became a prebendary of St Paul's, and in 1859 vicar of St John's, Paddington. In 1866, he was made Dean of Norwich, and in that office exercised a long and marked influence on church life. A strong Conservative and a churchman of traditional orthodoxy, he was a keen antagonist of higher criticism and of all forms of rationalism.
His Thoughts on Personal Religion (1862) and The Pursuit of Holiness were well received; and he wrote John William Burgon, Late Dean of Chichester: A Biography, With Extracts from His Letters and Early Journals (two volumes; 1892) about his friend Dean Burgon, with whose doctrinal views he was substantially in agreement. He resigned the deanery in 1889, and died at Tunbridge Wells on 3 May 1897. There is a memorial to him at Aynho.The Times, Thursday 17 June 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35232; col F Court Circular
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