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An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use. Subscriber: University of Nottingham, Malaysia; date: 10 August 2021 Dedication Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism Graham Neville Print publication date: 1998 Print ISBN-13: 9780198269779 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269779.001.0001 Dedication (p.v) To Margaret Access brought to you by: Page 1 of 1 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (oxford.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use. Subscriber: University of Nottingham, Malaysia; date: 10 August 2021 Preface and Acknowledgements Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism Graham Neville Print publication date: 1998 Print ISBN-13: 9780198269779 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269779.001.0001 (p.vi) (p.vii) Preface and Acknowledgements My interest in Edward Lee Hicks first arose in connection with my work for the History of Lincolnshire Committee in contributing to Twentieth Century Lincolnshire (Lincoln 1989), the concluding volume of their twelve-volume series. There was a striking difference between Hicks and his predecessor in the see of Lincoln, Edward King; that is, between two kinds of character and two kinds of churchmanship. Then the editing of Hicks’s diaries for the Lincoln Record Society revealed his warm and lively personality, even in his declining years. The question arose, how had he become the person and the churchman his diaries revealed. The list of sources at the end of this book indicates something of the route my enquiries then took, from Oxford to Warwickshire, from Manchester to Lincoln. An unexpected reward has been the friendship of members of his family. Full acknowledgement of my indebtedness to those who have helped me in my research might easily develop into an extensive essay. I hope that they will accept this brief statement of my thanks, with my assurance that it is no less genuine for being brief. First I thank the members of the family of Edward Hicks, and especially Mr Timothy Hicks for making available his collection of family papers. They have enabled me to feel a personal interest in writing this book. The Revd Jonathan Inkpin also helpfully drew my attention to some relevant family letters. My thanks are due to Dr Lionel North of Hull University for his interest and for pointing me to material specially relevant to Hicks as an epigraphist. Local knowledge has been kindly made available by Mr W. H. Stubbings, who gave me advice and help about Fenny Compton and its school; by Mr G. Lewis of the South Holland Family and Local History Group, who transcribed a long article from the Spalding Free Press; and by Mr Peter Chapman of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, who searched out information about the case of James Brightmore, the conscientious objector. Page 1 of 3 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (oxford.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use. Subscriber: University of Nottingham, Malaysia; date: 10 August 2021 Preface and Acknowledgements (p.viii) I have been given willing help by archivists, official and unofficial, of various institutions with which Hicks was associated. Especially I thank Mr Alastair Macpherson, Honorary Archivist of Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Dr J. Briscoe of Manchester Grammar School, and Mrs P. Hatfield, Eton College Archivist, for detailed responses to my enquiries about their respective schools; and Mr Derek Winterbottom of Clifton College for information about Dean Fry and Mr J. H. Fowler. I am very grateful for the help of the College Archivist of Brasenose College, Mrs Elizabeth Boardman, and the Assistant Archivist of Corpus Christi College Oxford, Mrs C. Butler; and Melanie Barber, Deputy Librarian at Lambeth Palace. The career of Edward Hicks in Manchester and Salford has been illuminated for me by Dr Michael Poole and two of the clergy who had personal experience of St Philip’s, the Revd Canon Gwilym Owen Morgan, and the Revd Michael Price, who made available his thesis on Peter Green, from which I learnt much about the tradition Edward Hicks established. I also thank Mr John Rowlands for information about his grandfather, Captain Rowlands of the Church Army; and Captain John Smith for searching out Church Army records. I am grateful to Lady Nevile, for kind hospitality and allowing me access to the diaries of Herbert F. Torr; and Lady Morrison and the Honorary Archivist, Dorothy Williams, for access to archives at Madresfield Court. I also express my gratitude for much assistance in researching library records, from staff of the John Rylands University Library, Manchester, and particularly Mrs J. C. Sen, Deputy Head of Reader Services; the Bodleian Library; the Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont, California; the Local Studies Unit, Manchester Central Library; Pusey House Library; the Fawcett Library; the Queens College Library, Birmingham; and the record offices of Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Lincolnshire. The substance of Chapter 4, ‘Rural Problems: Fenny Compton 1873–1886’, has already been published by the Warwickshire Local History Society, and my thanks are due to Dr Robert Bearman for seeing it through the press. Finally, I am personally grateful to the Right Revd Robert Hardy, for making available the episcopal diaries of Edward Hicks, to Dr (p.ix) Dorothy Owen for help in the preparation of an edition of those diaries, to Dr Nicholas Bennett for access to material in Lincoln Cathedral Library; and not least, for encouragement and advice from Professor John Kent and the Revd Dr John Nurser. G.N. 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Subscriber: University of Nottingham, Malaysia; date: 10 August 2021 Abbreviations Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism Graham Neville Print publication date: 1998 Print ISBN-13: 9780198269779 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269779.001.0001 (p.xii) Abbreviations CETS Church of England Temperance Society CSU Christian Social Union Diary Graham Neville (ed.), The Diaries of Edward Lee Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln 1910–1919, Lincoln Record Society, lxxxii (1993) Fowler J. H. Fowler (ed.), The Life and Letters of Edward Lee Hicks (Bishop of Lincoln 1910–1919) (1922) LDM Lincoln Diocesan Magazine MG Manchester Guardian UKA United Kingdom Alliance Access brought to you by: Page 1 of 1 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (oxford.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use. Subscriber: University of Nottingham, Malaysia; date: 10 August 2021 Introduction Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism Graham Neville Print publication date: 1998 Print ISBN-13: 9780198269779 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269779.001.0001 Introduction Graham Neville DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269779.003.0001 Abstract and Keywords This chapter concentrates on the story of a particular churchman who was deeply influenced by Ruskin. It offers a fresh slant on a process which has been described from other angles, the stirring of consciences in the fifty years from 1870 onwards which changed the face of liberalism in Britain. Edward Lee Hicks was born in 1843 in Ship Street, Oxford, and this chapter notes that his story is one of a scholar who abjured scholarship for the sake of something he saw as a more vital Christian concern, and of a churchman who believed that the institutional church was less important than the total community within which it fulfilled its ministry. The chapter further notes that Edward Hicks moved from the left wing of the Liberal Party to support Labour, and was in many ways the most radical of the bishops on the bench when he died in 1919. Keywords: churchman, Ruskin, liberalism, Britain, Edward Lee Hicks, Christian, institutional church, Liberal Party, Labour, radical bishops If we read Ruskin’s diatribes against the commercialism he saw all about him, we must often be struck with the curious way in which they match some current criticisms of the worst aspects of society in our own age. It is as though a century has passed and the cycle of history has taken a complete revolution. There is a shift in the level of poverty and deprivation, a change in the degree of pollution, a variation in the rhetoric of self-righteousness which proceeds from the defenders of the status quo.But take almost any of Rusk’s writings from about 1860 onwards expressing as they do his miserable unhappiness whenever Page 1 of 19 PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (oxford.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use. Subscriber: University of Nottingham, Malaysia; date: 10 August 2021