Edward Ellerton, DD (1770–1851) was an English cleric, academic and schoolmaster, known as a founder of scholarships.

Life

He was the son of Richard Ellerton of

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, Yorkshire and his wife Catherine Whitelock, born on 30 January 1771. He was educated at

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, and matriculated at

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, graduating BA in 1792, and MA in 1795. Ellerton was appointed master of Magdalen College School in 1799; was afterwards elected fellow of the college, and proceeded BD in 1805, and DD in 1815. He was appointed to the

perpetual curacy Perpetual curate was a class of resident Parish (Church of England)#Parish priest, parish priest or Incumbent (ecclesiastical), incumbent curate within the United Church of England and Ireland (name of the combined Anglican churches of England an ...

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, Oxfordshire, in 1814, and to the perpetual curacy of

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, in 1825. He resigned the latter charge early in 1851. For some time also he acted as curate to

Martin Routh Martin Joseph Routh (, ; 18 September 175522 December 1854) was an English classical scholar and President of Magdalen College, Oxford (1791–1854). Birthplace and Oxford career Routh was born at South Elmham, Suffolk, son of the Rev. Peter R ...

, the president of Magdalen, at

Theale Theale () is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. It is southwest of Reading and 10 miles (16 km) east of Thatcham. The compact parish is bounded to the south and south-east by the Kennet & Avon Canal (which here incorpo ...

near Reading, a chapelry attached to the rectory of

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. A lecturer in divinity, and senior fellow of Magdalen College, Ellerton died at his curacy of Theale on 26 December 1851.

Legacy

Ellerton was the founder of scholarships and prizes. In 1825 he established an annual prize of twenty guineas (£21), open to all members of the University of Oxford who had passed the examination for their first degree, the prize to be given for the best English essay on some theological subject. In the earlier part of

Edward Pusey Edward Bouverie Pusey (; 22 August 180016 September 1882) was an English Anglican cleric, for more than fifty years Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was one of the leading figures in the Oxford Movement, with interest ...

's career, Ellerton was his close friend, and, in conjunction with Pusey and his brother

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, he founded in 1832 the Pusey and Ellerton scholarships, three in number, which were open to all members of the university, and of the annual value of £30 each. Magdalen College (where Ellerton had for many years been the only tutor, and at times bursar) also shared in his benefactions. In addition to other gifts, in 1835 he founded an annual

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for the best reader of the lessons in the college chapel, and in 1849 an annual exhibition for the best scholar among the choristers; and by his will he founded in Magdalen College two annual exhibitions for students in Hebrew. He further established an exhibition for boys educated at Richmond School.

Works

Ellerton was a firm Protestant, and in 1845 published a brief polemical treatise on ''The Evils and Dangers'' of

Tractarianism The Oxford Movement was a theological movement of high-church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the Uni ...

References

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