George Reginald Balleine
George Reginald Balleine (1 April 1873 – 2 January 1966)[1] was a prominent historian and writer in the Island of Jersey.
Biography
George Reginald Balleine was born in Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire. His father was George Orange Balleine, Dean of Jersey. His brothers were Robert Wilfred Balleine, Cuthbert Francis Balleine, and Austen Humphrey Balleine. He was educated by his father at home until 1885, when he went to stay with his grandfather in Jersey. There he attended the Grammar School at St Aubin until 1886, when he went to Victoria College. During his time there he gained the Queen's History Prize. He left in 1891, going to The Queen's College, Oxford, and gaining a 2nd class degree in Modern History.
In 1886, he was ordained a
He died in 1966. His ashes were interred in St Brelade's Churchyard.
Writings
Balleine's writings were extensive, and mirrored his interests in history, and the evangelical party of the Church of England.
Theological
Despite his evangelical roots, he was no fundamentalist, taking a very liberal position on the miracle stories of the New Testament. Writing (in Simon Whom he Surnamed Peter) of the feeding of the five thousand that "where the bread came from, no one can say, but it seems unlikely that it was supernaturally multiplied", and of Jesus walking on the water, he takes it that the Fourth Gospel tells of Jesus walking by the sea, the story changing in the telling.
- Simon Whom He Surnamed Peter
- The Layman's History of the Church of England
- A History of the Evangelical Party in the Church of England
- Children of the Church
- The Young Churchman
- Sing with Understanding
- Past Finding Out (The Story of Joanna Southcott)
Jersey History
His knowledge of
- Articles in the Annual Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise (ABSJ)
- Articles in The Pilot Magazine
- A Biographical Dictionary of Jersey
- The Bailiwick of Jersey
- A History of Jersey
- The Tragedy of Philippe d'Auvergne
- All for the King: The Life Story of Sir George Carteret (1609–1680)
Bibliography
- Victoria College Register, 1852 to 1929
- A Biographical Dictionary of Jersey, Volume 2, Francis Corbet
- Reformation and Society in Guernsey, D.M. Ogier
- International Politics and the Establishment of Presbyterianism in the Channel Islands: The Coutances Connection, C.S.L. Davies
- Religion, History and G.R. Balleine: The Reformation in Jersey, by Revd. J. St. John Nicolle, The Pilot
- The Reformation in Jersey: The Process of Change over Two centuries, Revd. J. St. John Nicolle
- The Chroniques de Jersey in the light of contemporary documents, BSJ, AJ Eagleston
References
- ^ UK, Jersey, Channel Islands, Occupation Registration Cards, 1940–1945