biography
pronunciation:
[keebl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1792–1866)
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| biography:
| Anglican clergyman and poet, born in Fairford, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, was ordained in 1816, and became a college tutor (1818–23) and professor of poetry (1831–41). In 1827 his book of poems on the liturgical calendar, The Christian Year, was widely circulated. His sermon on ‘National apostasy’ (1833) began the Oxford Movement, encouraging a return to High Church ideals, and his circle issued the 90 Tracts for the Times. In 1835 he moved to the Hampshire living of Hursely, where he remained until his death. Keble College, Oxford, was erected in his memory. |
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