Lancelot Phelps (priest)

Lancelot Ridley Phelps[1] (b Sevenoaks 3 November 1853; d Oxford 16 December 1936)[2] was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford[3] from 1914 to 1930.[4]

Portrait of Lancelot Ridley Phelps (1853–1936), Provost of Oriel College, Oxford.

Phelps was educated at Charterhouse[5] and Oriel College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1872, graduating B.A. in 1877.[6] He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1879,[7] but not as a priest until 1996. His career was spent as a Fellow and Tutor at Oriel. He was also an Alderman of Oxford and a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress from 1905 to 1909.[8]

References

1. Portrait of Phelps
2. The Rev. L. R. Phelps. The Times (London, England), Thursday,  17 December 1936; pg. 18; Issue 47560
3. National Archives
4. "Phelps, Lancelot Ridley". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 19 May 2018. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
5. Phelps, Lancelot Ridley. "Phelps, Lancelot Ridley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24136. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Phelps, Rev. Lancelot Ridley" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
7. "GENERAL ORDINATIONS" The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, 24 September 1879; pg. 2; Issue 33461
8. Poor Law Commission The Times (London, England), Thursday, 18 February 1909; pg. 3; Issue 38886

Academic offices
Preceded by Charles Lancelot Shadwell	Provost of Oriel College, Oxford 1914–1930	Succeeded by David Ross