Charles Stubbs

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

The Right Reverend

Charles William Stubbs
Bishop of Truro
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of Truro
In office1906–1912 (death)
PredecessorJohn Gott
SuccessorWinfrid Burrows
Other postsDean of Ely (1893–1905)
Personal details
Born(1845-09-03)3 September 1845
Liverpool
Died4 May 1912(1912-05-04) (aged 66)
Truro
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
EducationLiverpool Collegiate Institution
Alma materSidney Sussex College, Cambridge

He was born in Liverpool and educated at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.[1] 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.[2] He was Dean of Ely 1894 to 1906 when he was appointed the fourth Bishop of Truro.

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)
  • In a Minster Garden: A Causerie (1902)
  • Castles in the Air. And Other Poems Old and New. ( Dent, 1903)
  • The Christ of English Poetry (1906)
  • Cambridge and its Story (1912)
  • Hymns, including Christ was born on Christmas Night and Carol of King Cnut

References
  1. "Stubbs, Charles William (STBS864CW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Stubbs, C. W.". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Charles Merivale		 Dean of Ely
1893–1905		 Succeeded by
Alexander Kirkpatrick
Preceded by
John Gott		 Bishop of Truro
1906–1912		 Succeeded by
Winfrid Burrows


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