Whately, Richard
WHATELY, RICHARD
Anglican archbishop of Dublin; b. London, Feb. 1, 1787; d. Dublin. Oct. 1, 1863. He was the son of Joseph Whately, prebendary of Bristol. Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and elected fellow of Oriel in 1811, he belonged to the brilliant Oxford circle, including Edward Hawkins and Edward Copleston, who criticized the traditional tenets of anglicanism. His Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Bonaparte (1819) attacked exaggerated historical criticism, while his Elements of Logic (1826) enjoyed many editions. John Henry newman, his vice principal at St. Alban Hall, was influenced by Whately's anti-erastianism, but Whately opposed the oxford movement and urged the condemnation of Newman's Tract 90. Appointed archbishop of Dublin in 1831, Whately collaborated with the Catholic archbishop to produce a religion course for the national schools that would satisfy both Catholics and Anglicans. He took an active interest in social reform.
See Also: ireland, church of.
Bibliography: w. j. fitzpatrick, Memoirs of Richard Whately, 2 v. (London 1864). e. j. whately, Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, 2 v. (London 1866). j. m. rigg, The Dictionary of National Biography from the Earliest Times to 1900 20:1334–40.
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