Henry Rutter (né Banister; 26 February 1755 – 17 September 1838) was an English

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priest. He took part in the controversy over

Robert Southey Robert Southey ( or ; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a ...

's ''Book of the Church'' (1824), in which

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was the Catholic protagonist.

Life

He was the son of Adam Banister of

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and Agnes, daughter of Richard Butler, of

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. On 26 September 1768, he went to Douai College, where he found his uncle, Rev. Robert Banister. In May 1781, he became professor at

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for the secular clergy. On the English mission, he served several places in the north before his appointment in 1817 to Yealand,

, where he remained until January 1834. The rest of his life was spent at Dodding Green, Westmorland, where he died at age 83.

Works

*''Answer to Dr. Southey'', a contribution to the controversy provoked by Southey's book *''Evangelical Harmony'', re-edited (1857) by

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. Rutter's other works, chiefly scriptural exegeses and devotional translations, are enumerated and described by

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.Joseph Gillow, ''Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics'' (5 vols, 1885-1902)

References

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