Hubert Burge

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Hubert Murray Burge

Anglican clergyman, headmaster of Winchester College, Bishop of Southwark, and Bishop of Oxford.[1]

Life

He was the son of the Rev. Milward Rodon Burge, son of William Burge, and his wife Mary Louisa Raffaella, daughter of Matthew Guerrin Price of Guernsey, and sister of Edward Henry Price; he was born in Meerut.[2][3] He was educated at Bedford School and Marlborough College.[4] He matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1882, graduating B.A. in 1886.[5][6]

Burge's first post after graduation was as a schoolmaster at Wellington College after which he was Fellow and Dean of his old college. In March 1902 he graduated as a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) and at the same time was given a Doctorate of Divinity (DD).[7]

Burge was

episcopate as Bishop of Southwark in 1911.[10] It was a surprise appointment because Burge had had no parochial experience and his health was fragile, and the Southwark diocese was regarded as very demanding for a diocesan Bishop.[11]

During the

First World War, Burge emphasised the importance of Christian principles underpinning British involvement. ‘The thing for which England is to stand to her children and before the bar of history is not simply political liberty and justice and constitutional government and international conscience, but the ‘Mind of Christ’ informing the life of her people, and giving political and moral ideals their true sanction. For that Force in the world, we are to stand or not stand at all’.[12]

In 1917, he wrote ‘We shall not do much to promote the Great Cause of lofty principles and high ideals in the struggle with materialism, if in any way we encourage the belief that making shells or growing potatoes is national service while the ministrations of the Church and promoting moral welfare are not’.[13]

Most Noble Order of the Garter
.

He was a keen cricketer.[15]

Burge was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1925 Birthday Honours, days before he died in office on 11 June 1925.[16]

Family

Burge married in 1898 Evelyn Isabel Franck Bright, daughter of James Franck Bright. He was survived by a son and a daughter of the marriage.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ "Bishops of Oxford". Archived from the original on 24 February 2009. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32178. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ "Married". Coventry Standard. 3 January 1851. p. 4.
  4. ^ "Burge, Rt Rev. Hubert Murray". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
    .
  6. ^ University Intelligence. Oxford The Times Friday, Oct 22, 1886; pg. 5; Issue 31897; col C
  7. ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36723. London. 24 March 1902. p. 7.
  8. ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1134.
  9. ^ List of Headmasters
  10. ^ National Archives
  11. ^ The Times obituary, 11.6.1925
  12. ^ Southwark Diocesan Chronicle, December, 1914
  13. ^ Southwark Diocesan Chronicle, March, 1917
  14. ^ The Times, Saturday, Jul 19, 1919; pg. 12; Issue 42156; col C The Times, Saturday, Jul 19, 1919; pg. 12; Issue 42156; col CEcclesiastical intelligence
  15. ISBN 0-356-10640-3
  16. ^ The Times, Thursday, Jun 11, 1925; pg. 16; Issue 43985; col B The Bishop Of Oxford. Wisdom And Sympathy
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Southwark
1911–1919 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Oxford
1919–1925 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Clerk of the Closet
1919–1925
Academic offices
Preceded by Headmaster of Repton School
1900–1901 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Headmaster of Winchester College
1901–1911 		Succeeded by
Montague Rendall
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