A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



churches were built within its boundaries, among which was St. Saviour's, 

 built by the munificence of Dr. Pusey between 1842 and 1845. Hock 

 became Dean of Chichester in 1859: the church of All Souls, built 1876-80, 

 commemorates his work in Leeds. A later vicar of Leeds, John Russell 

 Woodford, is commemorated by the basilican church of St. Aidan, built 

 1892-4. Under Hook's successors between thirty and forty new churches 

 have been built in Leeds, and his work has been continued with the same 

 moderation and tact. Other large parishes have found the benefit of the fre- 

 quent services, open churches, and general parochial activity of which Hook 

 was the pioneer in Leeds. Charles John Vaughan was vicar of Doncaster 

 from i860 till 1869, where he began his work of training candidates for ordi- 

 nation. Among those parish priests whose work has been carried on on the 

 lines of more advanced Tractarianism should not be forgotten John Sharp, 

 vicar of Horbury from 1834 till 1899. The Evangelical school of thought, 

 less susceptible to the Oxford movement, has maintained a high position in 

 Yorkshire. Two Deans of Ripon, William Goode (1860-3) and Hugh 

 McNeile (1868-75), have been famous as opponents of Tractarianism, The 

 Simeon Trustees acquired a large number of Yorkshire livings, including the 

 benefices of Beverley Minster, Bridlington, Trinity Church, Hull, and Sheffield; 

 and Hull, the birthplace of William Wilberforce, and Sheffield in particular 

 have been centres of spiritual thought and teaching of this type. 



Thomas Musgrave (1847—60) was translated from Hereford to York on 

 the death of Archbishop Harcourt. In i860 Longley came from Durham 

 and was translated to Canterbury two years later. His successor, the broad- 

 minded Evangelical, William Thomson (1863—90), translated from Gloucester 

 and Bristol, inaugurated a new era in the diocese by bringing himself more 

 closely into touch with his clergy and laity than had been the habit of the older 

 type of bishop. William Connor Magee, the brilliant preacher and orator, 

 translated from Peterborough in 1891, died very shortly after his translation, 

 and was succeeded by William Dalrymple Maclagan, previously Bishop of 

 Lichfield, who resigned the see in October 1908." Since 1836 most of the 

 important towns of Yorkshire, with the exception of York, Sheffield, Hull, 

 and the rapidly growing Middlesbrough, had lain in Ripon diocese, over 

 which, after Longley's translation to Durham, an earnest evangelical, Robert 

 Bickersteth, previously Treasurer of Salisbury, had presided (1857-84). He 

 was succeeded by the present bishop, William Boyd Carpenter. In 1877 a 

 Bishoprics Act was passed, which provided for the formation of new sees 

 at Wakefield and three other English towns. The new bishopric, which 

 relieved Ripon of a large and populous district, was not actually founded till 

 1888, when the Bishop-suffragan of Bedford, William Walsham How, 

 became its first bishop. On his death in 1897 his successor was the 

 Bishop-suffragan of Dover, George Rodney Eden, who still rules the see. 

 The great area and population of the county call for further subdivision of 

 the sees of York and Ripon, and there is a prospect of a South Yorkshire see 

 before long, with its centre at Sheffield. The provisions of the Acts of 1534 

 and 1888-9 have been utilized by the creation of three bishops-suffragan in 

 the diocese of York, bearing the titles of Hull, Beverley, and Sheffield, and 



" His successor is the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, previously Bishop-suffragan of Stepney. 



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