Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes (12 January 1819 – 19 April 1894) was a British

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who converted from

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and back again in the 19th century.

Biography

Ffoulkes was the son of John Powell Foulkes and Caroline Mary Jocelyn. His father was heir to the Eriviat estates which the ffoulkes family had owned since at least the 16th century. He was christened 21 January 1819 at Henllan, Denbigh, he was educated at

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and

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. His uncle,

Henry Foulkes Henry Foulkes (b. 1773 – 17 September 1857) of North Wales was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the ...

was principal of the college from 1817 to 1857. He obtained a second-class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1841. He became a

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of Jesus College in 1843, holding this position until 1855. He was ordained as a priest in the

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and also served for a time as the college's Junior Bursar. He joined the

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in 1855. However, after fifteen years in the Catholic Church, he applied to his Bishop,

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, to be reinstated as a clergyman in the Church of England, and his request was granted. Jesus College appointed him as rector of

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, in 1876. When the position of vicar of the

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in Oxford became vacant in 1878, no Fellow of

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wished to accept the appointment and the position was then offered to Ffoulkes, who had previously assisted at services. Ffoulkes wrote several theological works, including ''Christendom's Divisions'', ''The Church's Creed or the Crown's Creed'', and ''The Primitive Consecration of the Eucharistic Oblation''. His final work was ''The History of St. Mary the Virgin''. He also lectured in Divinity to the non-collegiate students at Oxford. His son was the historian

Charles ffoulkes Charles John ffoulkes (1868–1947) was a British historian, and curator of the Royal Armouries at London. He was a younger son of the Reverend Edmund Ffoulkes, Edmund ffoulkes. He wrote extensively on medieval weapon, arms and armour. He was ...

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