Godfrey Faussett

{{Short description|English clergyman and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox clergy | honorific_prefix = | name = Godfrey Faussett | honorific_suffix = | image =  | image_size =  | alt = | caption =  | birth_name = | birth_date = 1781 | birth_place = | death_date = 1853 | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | citizenship = | education = Corpus Christi College, Oxford | alma_mater = Magdalen College | occupation = Clergyman and academic | years_active = | religion = | spouse = Marianne-Elizabeth Bridges | children = Thomas Godfrey Faussett | parents = Henry Godfrey Faussett and Susan Sandys | relations =  | church = | ordained = | writings = The Claims of the Established Church to exclusive attachment and support, and the Dangers which menace her from Schism and Indifference, considered | congregations = | offices_held = Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford | title = | website =  | signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = | child = }}

'''Godfrey Faussett''' (c.1781–1853) was an English clergyman and academic, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1827. He was known as a controversialist. As a churchman he exemplified the high-and-dry tradition.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Michael George Brock|author2=Mark Charles Curthoys|title=19th century Oxford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bDAWHbXgi4C&pg=PA200|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-951016-0|page=200}}</ref>

==Life== He was the son of Henry Godfrey Faussett of Kent (son of Bryan Faussett) and Susan Sandys. He graduated B.A. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1801, and M.A. in 1804 as a Fellow of Magdalen College. He became B.D. in 1822 and D.D. in 1827, the year in which he was elected Lady Margaret Professor.<ref name="The Gentleman's Magazine">{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz69unkngoog|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1853|publisher=F. Jefferies|page=[https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz69unkngoog/page/n657 644]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63566 |title=Parishes: Nackington |author=Edward Hasted |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1800 |work=The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9 |accessdate=10 January 2013 }}</ref>

Faussett was Bampton Lecturer, publishing ''The Claims of the Established Church to exclusive attachment and support, and the Dangers which menace her from Schism and Indifference, considered'' (1820).<ref>{{cite book|author=Godfrey Faussett|title=The claims of the established church to exclusive attachment and support: and the dangers which menace her from schism and indifference, considered; in eight sermons preached before the University of Oxford, in the year MDCCCXX, at the lecture founded by the late Rev. John Bampton|url=https://archive.org/details/claimsofestablis00faus|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1820|publisher=The University Press for the author}}</ref> He took the conservative side of the religious issues in the university, opposing the 1834 bill of George William Wood to allow dissenters to enter (on a committee with Edward Burton, John Henry Newman, Edward Pusey and William Sewell), and defending subscription to the ''Thirty Nine Articles'' in 1835 with Vaughan Thomas and Newman.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Michael George Brock|author2=Mark Charles Curthoys|title=19th century Oxford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bDAWHbXgi4C&pg=PA757|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-951016-0|pages=212–3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Michael George Brock|author2=Mark Charles Curthoys|title=19th century Oxford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bDAWHbXgi4C&pg=PA757|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-951016-0|page=221}}</ref>

Faussett's 1838 sermon ''The Revival of Popery'' was provoked by the Tractarian publication of the ''Remains'' of Hurrell Froude, who had died in 1836; in it Faussett denounced Newman and John Keble.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter B. Nockles|title=The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jM8Fk_iF1YMC&pg=PA281|accessdate=10 January 2013|date=12 December 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-58719-8|page=281}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Francis McGrath|title=John Henry Newman: Universal Revelation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LeAw_zLGW24C&pg=PA82|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1997|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-86554-603-5|page=82 note 30}}</ref> It echoed an 1831 sermon of Burton preached against Henry Bellenden Bulteel.<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Miller Turner|title=John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYn6p_IdEdAC&pg=PA318|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=2002|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-09251-6|page=318}}</ref> It also proved a turning point as far as traditional High Church support for the Oxford Movement went within the university, since Faussett's alienation reflected the views of others in the camp.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Michael George Brock|author2=Mark Charles Curthoys|title=19th century Oxford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bDAWHbXgi4C&pg=PA757|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-951016-0|page=235}}</ref> Newman replied in a "Letter to Faussett" in June of that year, significant in its abandonment of his previous views on the Antichrist.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Misner|title=Papacy and Development: Newman and the Primacy of the Pope|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T9g3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA186|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1976|publisher=Brill Archive|page=186|id=GGKEY:55KB7LUHPBK}}</ref> In 1843 Faussett complained to the vice-chancellor Philip Wynter about a sermon by Pusey. The outcome was that Pusey was banned from preaching for two years.<ref name="BrockCurthoys1997">{{cite book|author1=Michael George Brock|author2=Mark Charles Curthoys|title=19th century Oxford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bDAWHbXgi4C&pg=PA757|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-951016-0|page=243}}</ref>

==Works== In 1830, Faussett attacked Henry Hart Milman's ''History of the Jews'' (1829) in a sermon ''Jewish History Vindicated from the Unscriptural View of it Displayed in the History of the Jews''.<ref>{{cite book|author=William R. McKelvy|title=The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GpDjH3-i1i4C&pg=PA317|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=2007|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-2571-4|page=317}}</ref> ''The Alliance of Church and State Explained and Vindicated'' (1834) protested against the power of non-Anglicans to legislate for the Church of England.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter B. Nockles|title=The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship, 1760-1857|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jM8Fk_iF1YMC&pg=PA79|accessdate=10 January 2013|date=12 December 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-58719-8|pages=79–80}}</ref>

==Family== Faussett married first Marianne-Elizabeth Bridges of Thanet; they had two sons and two daughters. Thomas Godfrey Faussett was his son by his second wife Sarah Wethered of Great Marlow.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Bernard Burke|title=A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852|url=https://archive.org/details/b24877876_0003|accessdate=10 January 2013|year=1852|publisher=Colburn and Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/b24877876_0003/page/n191 403]}}</ref><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Faussett, Thomas Godfrey}}</ref>

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