Charles Adolphus Row (1816–1896) was an English Church of
England clergyman and moral philosopher.
Life
Charles Adolphus Row was born in 1816.
He was the third son of William Row of
St John, Cornwall
St John (parish: kw, Pluwjowan, village: kw, S. Jowan) is a coastal civil parish and a village in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, south of Saltash and south-west of Torpoint.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymout ...
. He attended
Pembroke College, Oxford
Pembroke College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is located at Pembroke Square, Oxford. The college was founded in 1624 by King James I of England, using in part the endowment of merchant Thomas Tesdale, and was named aft ...
where he matriculated on 7 May 1834 at the age of 17. He was a scholar at Pembroke from 1834–38.
He obtained a B.A. on 29 November 1838 and an M.A. on 11 November 1841.
From 1848–61 Row was headmaster of Royal Free Grammar School,
Mansfield
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.
In 1870 the ''
Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle'' noted that Row was delivering a course of lectures in defence of the gospel at
Cleveland Hall, Fitzroy square, London, the former secularist center. In May 1874 he was appointed to the Prebend of Harleston in
St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglicanism, Anglican cathedral in London and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London ...
.
Row delivered the
Bampton Lectures
The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, were founded by a bequest of John Bampton. They have taken place since 1780.
They were a series of annual lectures; since the turn of the 20th century they have typically been biennial. ...
at the
University of Oxford
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in 1877. He took as his theme "Christian Evidences Viewed in Relation to Modern Thought." In his lectures he looked for a compromise between theologians who believed in the complete infallibility of the Bible and scientists who pointed out problems with a literal interpretation. He proposed an innovative solution, which he knew might seem daring to some of his audience since it allowed that the Bible might include errors of fact:
Charles Adolphus Row died in 1896.
Bibliography
Row was a prolific author. A sampling of his work:
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1816 births
1896 deaths
English Anglicans
Writers from Cornwall
Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
Academics of the University of Oxford