Charles Stubbs

{{Short description|English clergyman (1845–1912)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend | name = Charles William Stubbs | honorific-suffix = | image = CWStubbs.jpg | caption = | title = Bishop of Truro | church = Church of England | diocese = Diocese of Truro | term = 1906–1912 (death) | predecessor = John Gott | successor = Winfrid Burrows | other_post = Dean of Ely (1893–1905) | birth_date = {{birth date|1845|9|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Liverpool | death_date = {{death date and age|1912|5|4|1845|9|3|df=y}} | death_place = Truro | buried = | nationality = British | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | profession = | education = Liverpool Collegiate Institution | alma_mater = Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge }}

'''Charles William Stubbs''' <small>DD</small> (3 September 1845{{snd}}4 May 1912) was an English clergyman.

He was born in Liverpool and educated at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.<ref>{{acad|id=STBS864CW|name=Stubbs, Charles William}}</ref> As a clergyman he held several incumbencies, among them rector at Wavertree and Granborough. He took a great interest in the working classes and in social subjects, and was liberal both in his political and in his theological opinions.<ref>{{Nuttall|inline=1|title=Stubbs, C. W.}}</ref> He was Dean of Ely from 1894 to 1906 when he was appointed the fourth Bishop of Truro.

His daughter Meriel married the organist and composer Thomas Tertius Noble.<ref>[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1210&context=bulletin Trinity College, "Trinity College Bulletin, May 1953" (1953), ''Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824-present)''], Vol. L, New Series No. 4. Retrieved 17 January 2022.</ref>

== Quotations == *"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."

== Selected works == * ''God and the People: the religious creed of a democrat, being selections from the writings of Joseph Mazzini''; 2nd ed. 1896; G W E Russell, ''A Pocketful of Sixpences'', London 1907, p 92 * ''Co-operation & Owenite Socialist Communities/The Land and the Labourers'' (1884) * ''[https://archive.org/details/landlabourersfac00stubuoft The Land and the Labourers]'' (1893) * ''Charles Kingsley and the Christian Social Movement'' (1899) * ''Social Teachings of the Lord's Prayer'' (1900) * [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006677670 ''In a Minster Garden: A Causerie''] (1902) * Castles in the Air. And Other Poems Old and New. (Dent, 1903) * ''[https://archive.org/details/christofenglishp00stubiala The Christ of English Poetry]'' (1906) * ''[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeitsstor00stubuoft Cambridge and its Story]'' (1912) * Hymns, including ''Christ was born on Christmas Night'' and ''Carol of King Cnut''

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==External links== {{Commons category|Charles Stubbs}} {{wikisource|works=or}} * {{Gutenberg author | id=42397}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Charles William Stubbs}}

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