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Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the
New Liberalism
Graham Neville
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New Liberalism
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Dedication
Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the
New Liberalism
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Dedication
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Preface and Acknowledgements
Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the
New Liberalism
Graham Neville
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(p.vi) (p.vii) Preface and Acknowledgements
My interest in Edward Lee Hicks first arose in connection with my work for the
History of Lincolnshire Committee in contributing to Twentieth Century
Lincolnshire (Lincoln 1989), the concluding volume of their twelve-volume
series. There was a striking difference between Hicks and his predecessor in the
see of Lincoln, Edward King; that is, between two kinds of character and two
kinds of churchmanship. Then the editing of Hicks’s diaries for the Lincoln
Record Society revealed his warm and lively personality, even in his declining
years. The question arose, how had he become the person and the churchman
his diaries revealed. The list of sources at the end of this book indicates
something of the route my enquiries then took, from Oxford to Warwickshire,
from Manchester to Lincoln. An unexpected reward has been the friendship of
members of his family.
Full acknowledgement of my indebtedness to those who have helped me in my
research might easily develop into an extensive essay. I hope that they will
accept this brief statement of my thanks, with my assurance that it is no less
genuine for being brief. First I thank the members of the family of Edward
Hicks, and especially Mr Timothy Hicks for making available his collection of
family papers. They have enabled me to feel a personal interest in writing this
book. The Revd Jonathan Inkpin also helpfully drew my attention to some
relevant family letters. My thanks are due to Dr Lionel North of Hull University
for his interest and for pointing me to material specially relevant to Hicks as an
epigraphist. Local knowledge has been kindly made available by Mr W. H.
Stubbings, who gave me advice and help about Fenny Compton and its school;
by Mr G. Lewis of the South Holland Family and Local History Group, who
transcribed a long article from the Spalding Free Press; and by Mr Peter
Chapman of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, who searched out information
about the case of James Brightmore, the conscientious objector.
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(p.viii) I have been given willing help by archivists, official and unofficial, of
various institutions with which Hicks was associated. Especially I thank Mr
Alastair Macpherson, Honorary Archivist of Haileybury and Imperial Service
College, Dr J. Briscoe of Manchester Grammar School, and Mrs P. Hatfield, Eton
College Archivist, for detailed responses to my enquiries about their respective
schools; and Mr Derek Winterbottom of Clifton College for information about
Dean Fry and Mr J. H. Fowler. I am very grateful for the help of the College
Archivist of Brasenose College, Mrs Elizabeth Boardman, and the Assistant
Archivist of Corpus Christi College Oxford, Mrs C. Butler; and Melanie Barber,
Deputy Librarian at Lambeth Palace.
The career of Edward Hicks in Manchester and Salford has been illuminated for
me by Dr Michael Poole and two of the clergy who had personal experience of St
Philip’s, the Revd Canon Gwilym Owen Morgan, and the Revd Michael Price,
who made available his thesis on Peter Green, from which I learnt much about
the tradition Edward Hicks established. I also thank Mr John Rowlands for
information about his grandfather, Captain Rowlands of the Church Army; and
Captain John Smith for searching out Church Army records.
I am grateful to Lady Nevile, for kind hospitality and allowing me access to the
diaries of Herbert F. Torr; and Lady Morrison and the Honorary Archivist,
Dorothy Williams, for access to archives at Madresfield Court.
I also express my gratitude for much assistance in researching library records,
from staff of the John Rylands University Library, Manchester, and particularly
Mrs J. C. Sen, Deputy Head of Reader Services; the Bodleian Library; the
Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont, California; the Local Studies Unit,
Manchester Central Library; Pusey House Library; the Fawcett Library; the
Queens College Library, Birmingham; and the record offices of Oxfordshire,
Warwickshire, and Lincolnshire.
The substance of Chapter 4, ‘Rural Problems: Fenny Compton 1873–1886’, has
already been published by the Warwickshire Local History Society, and my
thanks are due to Dr Robert Bearman for seeing it through the press.
Finally, I am personally grateful to the Right Revd Robert Hardy, for making
available the episcopal diaries of Edward Hicks, to Dr (p.ix) Dorothy Owen for
help in the preparation of an edition of those diaries, to Dr Nicholas Bennett for
access to material in Lincoln Cathedral Library; and not least, for
encouragement and advice from Professor John Kent and the Revd Dr John
Nurser.
G.N.
Worcester 1997
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Abbreviations
Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the
New Liberalism
Graham Neville
Print publication date: 1998
Print ISBN-13: 9780198269779
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269779.001.0001
(p.xii) Abbreviations
CETS
Church of England Temperance Society
CSU
Christian Social Union
Diary
Graham Neville (ed.), The Diaries of Edward Lee Hicks, Bishop of
Lincoln 1910–1919, Lincoln Record Society, lxxxii (1993)
Fowler
J. H. Fowler (ed.), The Life and Letters of Edward Lee Hicks (Bishop
of Lincoln 1910–1919) (1922)
LDM
Lincoln Diocesan Magazine
MG
Manchester Guardian
UKA
United Kingdom Alliance
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Introduction
Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the
New Liberalism
Graham Neville
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Introduction
Graham Neville
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Abstract and Keywords
This chapter concentrates on the story of a particular churchman who was
deeply influenced by Ruskin. It offers a fresh slant on a process which has been
described from other angles, the stirring of consciences in the fifty years from
1870 onwards which changed the face of liberalism in Britain. Edward Lee Hicks
was born in 1843 in Ship Street, Oxford, and this chapter notes that his story is
one of a scholar who abjured scholarship for the sake of something he saw as a
more vital Christian concern, and of a churchman who believed that the
institutional church was less important than the total community within which it
fulfilled its ministry. The chapter further notes that Edward Hicks moved from
the left wing of the Liberal Party to support Labour, and was in many ways the
most radical of the bishops on the bench when he died in 1919.
Keywords: churchman, Ruskin, liberalism, Britain, Edward Lee Hicks, Christian, institutional church,
Liberal Party, Labour, radical bishops
If we read Ruskin’s diatribes against the commercialism he saw all about him,
we must often be struck with the curious way in which they match some current
criticisms of the worst aspects of society in our own age. It is as though a
century has passed and the cycle of history has taken a complete revolution.
There is a shift in the level of poverty and deprivation, a change in the degree of
pollution, a variation in the rhetoric of self-righteousness which proceeds from
the defenders of the status quo.But take almost any of Rusk’s writings from
about 1860 onwards expressing as they do his miserable unhappiness whenever
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