William Boyd Carpenter
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William Boyd Carpenter was an English cleric in the Church of England who became Bishop of Ripon and Royal Chaplain to Queen Victoria.
Boyd Carpenter in 1889
"A man Right Reverend and Well-Beloved"; Boyd Carpenter as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, March 1906
A medieval knight sporting an early example of the Carpenter arms
Hulsean Lectures
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The Hulsean Lectures were established from an endowment made by John Hulse to the University of Cambridge in 1790. At present, they consist of a series of four to eight lectures given by a university
William Boyd Carpenter
…natural equality of all men". Educated at the Liverpool Institute, before going up to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Boyd Carpenter was appointed Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1878. He held several curacies, was Vicar of Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, from 1879 to 1884, Canon of Windsor in 1882–84, and after…
Church of St Mary the Great where the Hulsean Lectures were originally held