William Howley
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The Most Reverend and Right Honourable William Howley |
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Archbishop of Canterbury | |
Province | Canterbury |
Diocese | Canterbury |
See | Canterbury |
Installed | 1828 |
Term ended | 1848 |
Predecessor | Charles Manners-Sutton |
Successor | John Sumner |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 February 1766 Ropley, Hampshire, England |
Died | 11 February 1848 Lambeth, Surrey, England |
Buried | St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, Addington, London |
William Howley (1766–1848) was a clergyman in the Church of England. He served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1828 to 1848.
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Early Life, education, and interests
Howley was born in 1766 at Ropley, Hampshire, where his father was vicar. He was educated at Winchester College and in 1783 went to New College, Oxford. He became Chaplain to the Marquess of Abercorn in 1792, whose influence was critical in advancing his early career. In 1809 he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University (as well as previously becoming a Fellow of Winchester and a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford in 1804.)
In October 1813, at Lambeth Palace, he was consecrated Bishop of London, a post he was to occupy until 1828, when he became Archbishop of Canterbury.
Life as Archbishop of Canterbury
Howley was Archbishop during the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts (1828), the Emancipation of the Catholics (1829) and the passing of the Great Reform Act (1832). The bench of bishops was generally opposed to all three measures. As archbishop, Howley was their spokesman, and his heart-felt opposition to the Great Reform Act led to his carriage being attacked in the streets of Canterbury.[1]
Like very many other bishops at that time, Howley was an "old-High Churchman." These inherited a tradition of high views of the sacraments from the Caroline Divines and their successors. They held Catholic beliefs but were consistently anti-Roman. They were often despised by the more extreme Tractarians and their beliefs were often obscured, for example, in Richard William Church's classic account of the Oxford Movement.
Archbishop Howley presided over the coronation of William IV and Queen Adelaide in 1831. At 5 a.m. on 20 June 1837, accompanied by the Lord Chamberlain, the Marquis Conyngham, the Archbishop went to Kensington Palace to inform Princess Victoria that she was now Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Architecture was of particular interest to him. During his career, he initiated the renovation and rebuilding of: his official house at Oxford, his town residence while Bishop of London (32 St. James's Square), Fulham Palace (also while he was Bishop of London), and finally, extensive renovations to Lambeth Palace. This last project was a virtual reconstruction of the Palace carried out by Edward Blore, the work beginning after 1828 and done mainly in the Gothic Revival style. It took several years and cost upwards of £60,000.
William Howley was married on 29 August 1805 to Mary Frances Belli, a daughter of John Belli, EICS, (1740–1805) of Southampton who had been Private Secretary to Warren Hastings. The Howleys had two sons and three daughters; neither son reached adulthood. One of his daughters married Sir George Howland Willoughby Beaumont, a nephew of Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet. William Howley died in 1848 and was interred at Addington after an elaborate funeral.
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Further reading
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Academic offices | ||
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Preceded by | Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford 1809–1813 |
Succeeded by William Van Mildert |
Church of England titles | ||
Preceded by | Bishop of London 1813–1828 |
Succeeded by Charles Blomfield |
Preceded by | Archbishop of Canterbury 1828–1848 |
Succeeded by John Sumner |
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- 1766 births
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- People educated at Winchester College
- Alumni of New College, Oxford
- Bishops of London
- Archbishops of Canterbury
- 19th-century Anglican archbishops
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Burials at St. Mary's Church, Addington
- Regius Professors of Divinity (University of Oxford)