Nathaniel Micklem (theologian)

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Nathaniel Micklem

political activist who also served as the principal of Mansfield College
.

Early life and education

Micklem was born in

President of the Oxford Union.[1]

Career

In 1914, he was ordained as a

First World War.[1]

Micklem then worked for the

Queen's Theological College, who made him an honorary Doctor of Divinity. He returned to Mansfield College in 1932, serving for a year as vice-principal, then until 1953 as principal of the college.[1]

While at the college, Micklem wrote extensively on the need for Congregationalists to adopt "orthodox" Christianity, seeing reason as founded in faith, rather than the other way around. In the late 1930s, he visited Germany twice, bringing back literature from the

Second World War.[1]

On 9 June 1944 he spoke at the Oxford Socratic Club on "Christianity and Other Faiths." He is the author of The Labyrinth, a "philosophical poem" consisting of 100 Spenserian stanzas, published by Oxford University Press in 1945.

Micklem served as chairman of the Congregational Union in 1944. He was part of the joint

Presbyterians which produced the United Reformed Church. He retired in 1953, but became more politically active, and served as President of the Liberal Party in 1957/8.[2] Within the party, he championed the free market.[3]

Honours

In 1974, he was invested as a

Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31443. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. Manchester Guardian
    , 19 July 1956
  3. ^ Boyd, Francis (27 May 1963). "Liberals decide on controls - Need for incomes policy". The Guardian. London. p. 2. Dr Nathaniel Micklem, a former president of the Party, objected that the motion attacked the traditional Liberal belief in the operation of the market as the correct economic regulator
Party political offices
Preceded by
President of the Liberal Party

1957–1958 		Succeeded by
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