Thomas Banks Strong (24 October 1861 – 8 July 1944) was an English

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bishop and theologian. He served as Bishop of Ripon and

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. He was also

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and served as

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during the

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. Thomas Strong was educated at

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and Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a second-class degree in '' Literae Humaniores'' in 1883. He became a

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in 1885 and a

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in 1886. At Christ Church, Strong was successively Lecturer (1884),

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(1888), Censor (1892), and then Dean (1901–1920). He received the degree

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(DD) from the

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in January 1902. In 1920 he was appointed Bishop of Ripon, and in 1925 was translated as

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, serving as such, and as Clerk of the Closet and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter until 1937. Strong produced a number of theological publications.Thomas Banks Strong

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. He became a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1918. He was buried at

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, where there is a memorial stone with a

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inscription.

Selected books

* ''Christian Ethics: Eight Lectures'' (Longmans, Green and Co., 1896) * ''A Manual of Theology'' (1st 1892, 2nd 1903) * ''God and the Individual'' (1903; Kessinger Publishing Company, 2008, ) * ''Lectures on the Method of Science'' (Oxford:

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, 1906) * ''Visitation Charge of the Bishop of Oxford at the Diocesan Visitation 1931'' (

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, 1931)

References

External links

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Bibliographic directory
from

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