{{Short description|English cleric (1861–1942)}} '''James Granville Adderley''' (1861–1942) was an English cleric of Anglo-Catholic views, Christian socialist and founder of the Christian Social Union.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=54554|first=N. C.|last=Masterman|title=Adderley, James Granville (1861–1942)}}</ref> He was also a ritualist with a strong interest in the dramatic from his student days, seeing it as an effective adjunct to religion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Phillips |first1=Paul T. |title=A Kingdom on Earth: Anglo-American Social Christianity, 1880-1940 |date=1996 |publisher=Penn State Press |isbn=978-0-271-01580-4 |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEkouEdmamwC&pg=PA131 |language=en}}</ref>
==Early life== He was born at Hams Hall, the fifth son of Charles Adderley, 1st Baron Norton and his wife Julia Anne Eliza Leigh, daughter of Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated in 1879 at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1883.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{alox2|title=Adderley, James Granville}}</ref> His father was a politician with a long-term interest in religious matters and education, and in 1895 published a book ''Socialism'' including his views on the compatibility of Christianity and social reform.<ref name="CA">{{cite ODNB|id=30341|first= H. C. G.|last=Matthew|authorlink=Colin Matthew|title=Adderley, Charles Bowyer, first Baron Norton (1814–1905)}}</ref> Referring to the parish priest Alfred Benjamin Goulden at St Alphege, Southwark,<ref>{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |date=1874 |page=345 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA345 |language=en}}</ref> James Adderley wrote in 1916
<blockquote>"[...] it was from dear Father Goulden that I learnt to combine the best in Evangelical religion with the best in Catholicism, or rather to know that they are not two religions, but one, if rightly understood.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adderley |first1=James Granville |title=In Slums and Society: Reminiscences of Old Friends |date=1916 |publisher=T. Fisher Unwin |page=15 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>
==East End of London== thumb|Oxford House, Bethnal Green, 2009 photograph In 1883 Adderley heard Samuel Barnett on the absence of the "leisured class" in East London.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Inglis |first1=Kenneth |title=Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England |date=15 October 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-52887-5 |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BelXAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA154 |language=en}}</ref> In 1885 he became the head of the Oxford House settlement in London's Bethnal Green, the first full-time Warden to occupy that post.<ref name="ODNB"/> His introduction to the area and its poverty came through the Rev. William E. Jackson, who in 1885 moved from a parish in Everton, Liverpool to become a curate at St Andrew, Bethnal Green.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ann Sharpe |first1=Rosemary |title=Franciscan values and social contexts: A sociological study of founders of Anglican Franciscan Third Orders, 1882-1939|page=113 |url=https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1227/1/U055777.pdf |website=etheses.lse.ac.uk|date=1993 |publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ecclesiastical Intelligence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/18850619/033/0006 |work=Manchester Courier |date=19 June 1885|page=6}}</ref> Adderley's successor in 1887 was Hensley Henson, then a deacon.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=33825|first=Matthew|last=Grimley|title=Henson, Herbert Hensley (1863–1947)}}</ref> That year Adderley was a soapbox orator at Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets, a role that became customary at Oxford House to 1899.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Matthews-Jones |first1=Lucinda |title=Oxford House Heads and Their Performance of Religious Faith in East London, 1884?1900 |journal=The Historical Journal |date=2017 |volume=60 |issue=3 |page=728 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X16000273 |jstor=26797258 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26797258 |issn=0018-246X}}</ref>
Having consulted Edward White Benson, a friend of his father and Archbishop of Canterbury, Adderley entered the Church of England.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goodfellow |first1=I. |title=The Church Socialist League 1906-1923 : Origins, development and disintegration. |url=https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1208/ |website=etheses.dur.ac.uk|page=109|publisher=Durham University |date=1983}}</ref> He was ordained deacon in 1887. As a curate he was at Bethnal Green, and then became head that year of the Christ Church Mission in Poplar, until 1893.<ref name="WW"/><ref name="Anson">{{cite book |last1=Anson |first1=Peter Frederick |title=The Call of the Cloister: religious communities and kindred bodies in the Anglican Communion |date=1953 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |page=151 |url=https://archive.org/details/callofcloisterre0000anso_d5p2/page/151/mode/1up}}</ref> He was ordained priest in 1888, and joined the Guild of St Matthew of Stewart Headlam, after chancing on one of its meetings, adopting its socialist views.<ref name="WW"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Orens |first1=John Richard |title=Stewart Headlam's Radical Anglicanism: The Mass, the Masses, and the Music Hall |date=1 October 2010 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-09204-6 |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9TV3ZcO0vkC&pg=PA99 |language=en}}</ref> He later resigned from the Guild, in 1895, over support Headlam gave to Oscar Wilde.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Orens |first1=John Richard |title=Stewart Headlam's Radical Anglicanism: The Mass, the Masses, and the Music Hall |date=1 October 2010 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-09204-6 |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9TV3ZcO0vkC&pg=PA120 |language=en}}</ref> In his mission role Adderley raised funds for St Frideswide, Poplar (built 1914, in existence to 1947), and the Central London Cemetery.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Genuki: St Frideswide, Poplar, Church of England, Middlesex |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/Poplar/StFrideswide |website=www.genuki.org.uk |language=en}}</ref>
===Christian Social Union=== {{main|Christian Social Union (UK)}} In 1889 Adderley was one of the founders of the Christian Social Union (CSU), which has been defined as a "moderate socialist" group.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=34098|first=Matthew|last=Grimley|title=Inge, William Ralph (1860–1954)}}</ref> The same year, ''Lux Mundi'' was published, a book of Christian essays, with theme "the religion of the incarnation"; and of its authors many took part in "the revival of Christian moral philosophy in Oxford", and "shared the practical social commitment which was its counterpart, and which was embodied in the Christian Social Union".<ref name="Garnett">{{cite ODNB|id=52464|first=Jane |last=Garnett|title=Lux mundi essayists (act. 1889)}}</ref> A particular connection to Adderley was that William James Heathcote Campion (1851–1892), the secretary of Oxford House, was one of the authors.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Oxford Magazine: A Weekly Newspaper and Review |date=1892 |page=306 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywPjIO2PVL4C&pg=PA306 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Garnett"/>
Adderley was active in the 1889 London dock strike that started in the summer of that year. His work on fundraising and relief was noted: by Henry Liddon in a letter to Adderley; by a vote of thanks at dock gates after Celestine Edwards had spoken; and by Ben Tillett in his memoirs.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ann Sharpe |first1=Rosemary |title=Franciscan values and social contexts: A sociological study of founders of Anglican Franciscan Third Orders, 1882-1939|page=151 note 37 |url=https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1227/1/U055777.pdf |website=etheses.lse.ac.uk|date=1993 |publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science}}</ref>
An anonymous article of 1894 in ''The Quarterly Review'' on the CSU was written by Hensley Henson.<ref>{{cite web |title=Henson's contributions to edited books and monthly and quarterly journals – The Henson Journals |url=https://www.hensonjournals.org/index.php/essays-in-edited-books/ |website=www.hensonjournals.org}}</ref> In it he wrote:
<blockquote>The theologian of the Union is ... the Bishop of Durham. The prophet is one of the most eloquent of English preachers, Canon Scott Holland; the philosopher ... Mr. Charles Gore, of 'Lux Mundi' fame; the missionaries are a host of young clerics, of whom Mr. J. Adderley may be taken as the type, and in some sense the leader.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Quarterly Review |date=1894 |publisher=Murray |pages=2–3|volume=179 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N25RguMqitkC&pg=PA2 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>
The CSU produced a range of publications: the ''Economic Review'', of which early on Campion was an editor;<ref name="Garnett"/> ''Goodwill'', to which Adderley contributed;<ref name="ODNB"/> and ''The Commonwealth'' (1896), for which he found George Herbert Davis as a backer.<ref name="ODNB"/> Percy Dearmer became London secretary of the CSU in 1891;<ref name="ODNBD">{{cite ODNB|id=32763|first=Donald|last= Gray|title=Dearmer, Percy (1867–1936)}}</ref> with Edward R. Pease, secretary of the Fabian Society, he put Davis up for election there in 1892.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fabian News |date=1892 |publisher=Fabian Society. |page=50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxwCiKFvMe4C&pg=RA4-PA50 |language=en}}</ref> Dearmer, a friend from Oxford, also supported Adderley's mission work at Poplar.<ref name="ODNBD"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Dearmer |first1=Nancy |title=The Life of Percy Dearmer |date=1940 |publisher=J. Cape |page=36 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1896, when ''The Commonwealth'' was launched, Davis was a solicitor involved on the editorial side with Adderley, Dearmer and Holland;<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ollard |first1=S. L. |title=A Forty Years' Friendship. Letters from the Late Henry Scott Holland to Mrs. Drew |date=1 January 1920 |publisher=D. Appleton & Co |location=New York |page=182 |url=https://archive.org/details/fortyyearsfriend0000sled/page/182/mode/1up}}</ref> he also owned and financed it in its first year.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paget |first1=Stephen |title=Henry Scott Holland : memoir and letters |date=1921 |publisher=Murray |location=London |page=v |url=https://archive.org/details/henryscotthollan00pageuoft/page/v/mode/1up}}</ref> Both Dearmer, Adderley's assistant at Berkeley Chapel, and Davis, ordained priest in 1903, and still a Fabian Socialist in 1905, were closely involved with Adderley's later clerical career.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |date=1930 |page=698 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMgWAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA330 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Peter d'Alroy |title=The Christian Socialist Revival, 1877-1914 |date=8 December 2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-7697-6 |page=330 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OCjWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA238 |language=en}}</ref>
===Society of the Divine Compassion=== In August 1893 Adderley wrote in ''The English Illustrated Magazine'' an article "Is Slumming Played Out?", in which he claimed
<blockquote>The fashionable slumming of eight years ago is given up as a wholesale practice.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Koven |first1=Seth |title=Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London |date=13 August 2006 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-12800-9 |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWSYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>
Attached as curate to All Hallows, Barking (1893–4), he met Henry Hardy (Father Andrew).<ref name="Anson"/><ref name="WW"/> He was at St Andrew's Church, Plaistow from 1894 to 1897. In 1898, according to ''Who's Who'', he was "working with a small community of Brothers of Mercy."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Addison |first1=Henry Robert |last2=Oakes |first2=Charles Henry |last3=Lawson |first3=William John |last4=Sladen |first4=Douglas Brooke Wheelton |title=Who's Who |date=1898 |publisher=A. & C. Black |page=177 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l10oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177 |language=en}}</ref> This was the Society of the Divine Compassion (SDC), of which he was a founder in 1894 with Hardy and Henry Chappel (died 1915), after a retreat at Pusey House, Oxford. Adderley in fact left the Society in 1897.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=54586|first=Bernard|last=Palmer|title=Hardy, Henry Ernest [name in religion Andrew] (1869–1946)}}</ref> Petà Dunstan argues that his novel ''Stephen Remarx'' advocated for third order members ("friars") rooted in local communities rather than an institution.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=G. R. |title=A History of Pastoral Care |date=1 May 2000 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-225-66840-7 |pages=331–332 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVG1oWcd1ScC&pg=PA331 |language=en}}</ref> Later Brother Giles (Edward Kelley Evans) of the SDC was influenced by Adderley's vision, and adopted his practice of "road missions" to meet wayfarers on equal terms.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anson |first1=Peter Frederick |title=The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion |date=1964 |publisher=S.P.C.K. |page=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=23HZAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref>
Adderley wrote a preface to ''East End Idylls'' (1897), a short story collection by Arthur St John Adcock about the London slums influenced by Arthur Morrison. In it he regarded the East End of London as "a uniquely important subject even if people are tired of hearing about it."<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Morrison |editor-first1=Kevin A. |title=Encyclopedia of London's East End |date=3 March 2023 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-4837-8 |pages=71–72|chapter=East End Idylls |last=McPartland|first=Robert |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsaxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA71 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunter |first1=Jefferson |title=Edwardian Fiction |date=1982 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-24030-8 |page=2 |language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=G. R. |title=A History of Pastoral Care |date=1 May 2000 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-225-66840-7 |page=335 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVG1oWcd1ScC&pg=PA335 |language=en}}</ref>
==London West End== Adderley moved on, hiring the private Berkeley Chapel in Mayfair in which to hold services ("officiates, some would say, ''performs''", according to ''The Freethinker'').<ref>{{cite book |title=The Freethinker |date=1898 |publisher=G.W. Foote |page=470 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIYvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA470 |language=en}}</ref> Percy Dearmer worked there as an assistant, without an official position.<ref name="ODNB"/> Around 1898 Adderley met at the Chapel John Hawes, unable to become a missionary in Africa for health reasons. Adderley influenced him in the directions both of Christian socialism, and Franciscan ideals. Hawes in particular read at Adderley's suggestion Paul Sabatier's biography of Francis of Assisi.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Barrie |title=The Franciscan Revival in the Anglican Communion |date=1982 |publisher=Darton, Longman and Todd |isbn=978-0-232-51549-7 |page=74 |language=en}}</ref> Hawes was at that time an architect, and Adderley used him for some church work.<ref name="JCH">{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=John J. |title=Between Devotion and Design: The Architecture of John Cyril Hawes 1876-1956 |date=2000 |publisher=University of Western Australia Press |isbn=978-1-876268-16-9 |page=19 |language=en}}</ref>
Vicar of St Mark's Church, Marylebone from 1901, Adderley had George Ratcliffe Woodward as curate there from 1903.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |date=1930 |page=1448 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMgWAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1448 |language=en}}</ref> He brought in speakers who reflected modern theology and scholarship (S. R. Driver and William Sanday), but also heterodox and progressive views (George Lansbury, Oliver Lodge, Vale Owen, Maude Royden).<ref name="ODNB"/> Woodward was, however, out of sympathy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chadwick |first1=Owen |title=The Victorian Church |volume=2: 1860-1901 |date=1970 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=150 and note 3 |language=en}}</ref>
==Saltley== Adderley was vicar of St Saviour's Church, Saltley from 1904 to 1909.<ref name="WW">{{Who's Who|title=Adderley, Hon. and Rev. James (Granville)|id=U221739}}</ref> This was the church built for his father, on the family estate in Birmingham.<ref name="CA"/> In 1908 he joined the Church Socialist League.<ref name="ODNB"/> It had been formed in 1906. Adderley was one of its leaders in the Birmingham area, with Arnold Pinchard who was vicar at St Jude's Church, Birmingham from 1896 to 1920.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnsby |first1=George J. |title=Socialism in Birmingham and the Black Country, 1850-1939 |date=1998 |publisher=Integrated Pub. Services |isbn=978-0-905679-10-5 |page=125 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |date=1930 |page=1024 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMgWAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1024 |language=en}}</ref> Conrad Noel in his autobiography wrote of "Father Adderley, a vicar in Birmingham, and Father Pinchard of St. Jude's in that same city, who was one of Barry Jackson's most valuable supporters".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Noel |first1=Conrad |title=Conrad Noel: An Autobiography |date=1946 |publisher=J.M. Dent & Sons Limited |page=59 |language=en}}</ref>
In a 1912 newspaper story, referring to his Saltley period, Adderley was quoted on why he once sought a curate, "Tory preferred":
<blockquote>I thought it good to provide [the St Saviour's congregation] with a Tory, as I had three Independent Labour Party curates.<ref>{{cite Trove newspaper|102123597 |title= Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940) View title info Sat 30 Mar 1912 Page 2 CURATE WANTED—"TORY PREFERRED." |access-date=26 June 2025}}</ref></blockquote>
George Herbert Davis was a curate at St Saviour's 1904–5 and 1907–9.<ref name="CrockfordD">{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |date=1930 |page=330 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMgWAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA698 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Church News |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000385/19070712/112/0005 |work=Coventry Herald |date=12 July 1907|page=5}}</ref> In a local Board of Guardians election for Aston, Birmingham, he was in 1908 nominated a candidate by the Socialist Party of Great Britain, losing out to the Liberal Unionist candidate.<ref>{{cite news |title=Guardians' Election in Bordesley Ward |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000644/19080929/116/0004 |work=Birmingham Mail |date=29 September 1908|page=4}}</ref> After two years as a licensed preacher in the diocese of Birmingham, he moved in 1911 to Hereford Cathedral as an assistant vicar choral.<ref name="CrockfordD"/> He was a suffragist campaigner, and his wife Ethel May Davis was the local Women's Social and Political Union secretary; they are now commemorated by a "violet plaque".<ref>{{cite web |title=Violet Plaques |url=https://www.herefordcathedral.org/violet-plaques |website=Hereford Cathedral |language=en |date=16 July 2018}}</ref> Articles by Davis in 1912 on ''The Book of Genesis'', in the ''Monthly Paper'' of the Church League for Women's Suffrage, caused controversy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Inkpin |first1=Jonathan David Francis |title=Combatting the 'sin of self-sacrifice'? : Christian feminism in the women's suffrage struggle, 1903-1918 |url=https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1517/ |website=etheses.dur.ac.uk|date=1996|page=195 |publisher=Durham University}}</ref>
In 1908, Adderley took on John Hawes, by then ordained in the Church of England, as a curate at Saltley.<ref name="JCH"/> Hawes left for The Bahamas in 1909.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Goad |editor-first1=Philip |editor-last2=Willis |editor-first2=Julie |title=The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture |date=31 October 2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-88857-8 |page=318 |language=en}}</ref>
==Later life== In 1911 Adderley moved living, within the Birmingham area, to St Gabriel's Church, Deritend. From 1913 to 1918 he was an honorary canon of St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham.<ref name="CrockfordA">{{cite book |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory |date=1930 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMgWAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA3|language=en}}</ref> For a Good Friday service of evensong in 1917 at the cathedral, led by Hamilton Baynes, Adderley preached in the open air in the churchyard.<ref>{{cite web |title=On This Day, 7 April 1917, Voices of War and Peace |url=https://www.voicesofwarandpeace.org/2017/04/07/on-this-day-7-april-1917-2/}}</ref>
In November 1917 Adderley let it be known that he intended to move to a position as curate to Reginald John Campbell, at the cathedral since 1915, at Christ Church, Broadway, where Campbell was appointed a licensed preacher;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0006339/19171106/090/0018 |title=Father Adderley |work=The World |date=6 November 1917|page=18 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|title=Campbell, Reginald John (1867–1956)|first=Keith|last=Robbins|id=38627}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Peter d'Alroy |title=The Christian Socialist Revival, 1877-1914 |date=8 December 2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-7697-6 |page=430 note 79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OCjWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA430 |language=en}}</ref> it was an early Victorian church built in what was then a slum district.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mumm |first1=Susan |title=All Saints Sisters of the Poor: An Anglican Sisterhood in the Nineteenth Century |date=2001 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-0-85115-728-3 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNS_KBCil2AC&pg=PA47 |language=en}}</ref> In the event, he was in 1918 appointed by Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford to St Paul's, Covent Garden, where he stayed to 1923.<ref name="WW"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Goodfellow |first1=I. |title=The Church Socialist League 1906-1923 : Origins, development and disintegration. |url=https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1208/ |website=etheses.dur.ac.uk|page=110 |publisher=Durham University |date=1983}}</ref> From 1923 he was vicar of St Anne, Highgate.<ref name="CrockfordA"/>
==Works== thumb|Title page from ''The New Floreat: A Letter to an Eton Boy on the Social Question'' (1894) * ''The Fight for the Drama at Oxford'' (1888), introduction by William Leonard Courtney.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adderley |first1=J. G. (James Granville) |title=The Fight for the Drama at Oxford |date=1888 |publisher=B.H. Blackwell; Simpkin, Marshall and Co. |location=Oxford; London |url=https://archive.org/details/fightfordramaato00addeiala}}</ref> Addersley's own account of his successful campaign in 1883–4 for the revival of academic drama at the University of Oxford. He worked with Arthur Bourchier, founding a Philothespian Society and persuading Benjamin Jowett, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, to lift a ban on student acting. The Oxford University Dramatic Society was founded in 1884.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Chapman |first1=Don |title=Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City |date=2008 |publisher=Univ of Hertfordshire Press |isbn=978-1-902806-87-7 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5lbwOG9V0X4C&pg=PA15 |language=en}}</ref> * ''Stephen Remarx'' (1893), called a "strange little novel" by {{ill|H. Gustav Klaus|de}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Klaus |first1=H. Gustav |title=The Rise of Socialist Fiction, 1880-1914 |date=1987 |publisher=Harvester Press |isbn=978-0-7108-1085-4 |page=19 |language=en}}</ref> Gilbert Clive Binyon wrote in 1931 that it "has been very widely influential", with a 12th edition in 1904.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Binyon |first1=Gilbert Clive |title=The Christian Socialist Movement in England: An Introduction to the Study of Its History |date=1931 |publisher=Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2iHTAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> It was a "heavily autobiographical story".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Peter d'Alroy |title=The Christian Socialist Revival, 1877-1914 |date=8 December 2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-7697-6 |page=255 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OCjWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA255 |language=en}}</ref> It has been called "a modern tract setting forth the "Social Gospel" in the form of fiction."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Drummond |first1=Andrew Landale |title=The Churches in English Fiction: A Literary and Historical Study from the Regency to the Present Time of British and American Fiction |date=1950 |publisher=E. Backus |isbn=978-0-8495-6277-8 |page=152 |language=en}}</ref> * ''Salvation by Jesus, an address to a penitent soul'' (1893), anonymous<ref>{{cite book |title=The Athenaeum |date=1899 |publisher=J. Lection |page=180 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oWlIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA180 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Adderley |first1=James |title=Salvation by Jesus, an address to a penitent soul |date=1893 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tr1cq8wUtTcC |language=en}}</ref> * ''The New Floreat: A Letter to an Eton Boy on the Social Question'' (1894).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adderley |first1=James Granville |title=The new floreat, a letter to an Eton boy on the social question |date=1894 |publisher=Wells, Gardner, Darton & Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H7pJAAAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> An epistolary novel in the context of the 1889 London dock strike.<ref>{{cite book |title=Twentieth Century |date=1896 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRrrwW0MmuMC&pg=RA36-PA12 |language=en}}</ref> * ''Looking Upward: Papers introductory to the study of social questions from a religions point of view'' (1896)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adderley |first1=Adderley |title=Looking Upward: Papers introductory to the study of social questions from a religions point of view |date=1896 |publisher=Wells Gardner, Darton |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HoDBA2UcS4gC |language=en}}</ref> * ''Behold the Days Come: A Fancy in Christian Politics'' (1907).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adderley |first1=James Granville |title=Behold the Days Come: A Fancy in Christian Politics |date=1907 |publisher=Methuen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SRp357UEOWwC |language=en}}</ref> The ''Saturday Review'' wrote: "To Mr. Adderley the Church appears the only adequate organisation for carrying out the dreams of Socialism. He goes further; he identifies Christianity and Socialism."<ref>{{cite book |title=The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art |date=1907 |publisher=J. W. Parker and Son |page=658|volume=103 |language=en}}</ref> * ''A New Earth: Sermons, Addresses and Lectures'' (1903)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adderley |first1=James |title=A New Earth: Sermons, Addresses and Lectures |date=1903 |publisher=Brown |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NawaN2Dw1ckC |language=en}}</ref> * ''Is Socialism Atheism?: A Prejudiced Answer'' (1910)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adderley |first1=James |title=Is Socialism Atheism?: A Prejudiced Answer |date=1910 |publisher=Frank Palmer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H05YAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> * ''In Slums and Society: Reminiscences of Old Friends'' (1916)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adderley |first1=James Granville |title=In Slums and Society: Reminiscences of Old Friends |date=1916 |publisher=T. Fisher Unwin |language=en}}</ref>
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