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Spencer Cecil Carpenter (3 November 1877 – 19 August 1959) was an Anglican priest and author. He was the Dean of Exeter in the Church of England from 1935 to 1950.
Carpenter was educated at University College School and Carpenter
on the King's College, Taunton website, accessed 2 December 2015
Spencer Cecil Carpenter (3 November 1877 – 19 August 1959) was an Anglican priest and author. He was the Dean of Exeter in the Church of England from 1935 to 1950.
Carpenter was educated at University College School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and ...
. He was ordained
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in 1903 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Paul's, Walworth
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. He was successively Vice-Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge; Warden
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of the Gonville and Caius College Mission in Battersea then Fellow
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and Tutor of Selwyn College, Cambridge. From 1922 to 1930 he was Vicar
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and Rural Dean of St Peter's, Bolton.
In 1929, he became an Honorary Chaplain to the King. In 1930, he left Selwyn to become simultaneously Master of the Temple
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in London and Professor
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of Theology
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at Queen's College, Harley Street. He retained all three positions until his appointment to the Deanery
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in 1935. In the same year, he also became Provost of King's College, Taunton, a position he held until 1953.on the King's College, Taunton website, accessed 2 December 2015
Works
*''A Parson’s Defence'', 1912 *''Christianity according to St Luke'', 1919 *''A Large Room'', 1923 *''The Anglican Tradition'', 1928 *''The Church and Politics'', 1934 *''The Bible View of Life'', 1937 *''Faith in Time of War'', 1940 *''Exeter Cathedral'', 1942 *''Life of Bishop Winnington-Ingram'', 1949 *''The Church in England, 597–1688'', 1954 *''Duncan-Jones of Chichester'', 1956 *''Eighteenth Century Church and People'', 1959References