Anglo Catholics

"Are you Anglo-Catholic?" I was once asked by a lady in my first parish as she gazed with horrified fascination at my rosary. "Horribly." was my reply. Public school religion is famously (except in the Woodard Foundation) not Anglo-Catholic. But Haileybury has made its contribution to the catholic revival in the Church of England. Fr Basil Jellicoe (BFr 1912) is rightly remembered for his heroic labours in Somers Town and his invention of Housing Associations, but he was also a contributor to the Anglo Catholic Congress movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Sir Edwyn Hoskyns (Tr 1897) was a Cambridge theologian and New Testament scholar whose contribution to a volume of essays edited by E G Selwyn Essays Catholic and Critical had a seminal effect on Biblical studies. There is an article on his life and work in the journal of the Catholic League, here.

The Report of the Anglo Catholic Congress of 1927 contains contributions by Hoskyns on The Eucharist in the New Testament and Neville Coghill (Tr 1913), famous for his versification of the Canterbury Tales into modern English for Penguin Classics, who submitted a paper on Sacraments and the Presence of God in Nature.

Bishop Sir Edwyn Hoskyns Bt

Hoskyns' Father, also Sir Edwyn, (Tr 1865.1) was President of the Old Haileyburian Society in 1902 - 3, the year before he was consecrated Bishop of Southwell. Given that it was only in 1885 that Bishop King of Lincoln had reintroduced the Mitre into the Church of England, the Bishop of Southwell was presumably like his son, quite 'advanced', his photograph showing him in cope, mitre and coloured stole.