STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN, an English clergyman; son of the Bishop of Norwich, born in Alderley, Cheshire, Dec. 13, 1815; was educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold (1829-1834). As a scholar of Balliol, he gained the New digate, Ireland, and other university dis tinctions; took a first class in classics (1837) ; and was elected fellow of Uni versity College (1840). Taking orders, he was for 12 years tutor of his college; Select Preacher (1845-1846) ; secretary to the Oxford University Commission (1850-1852) ; canon of Canterbury (1851-1858); Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and canon of Christ Church (1858-1864); in 1863 de clined the archbishopric of Dublin; and became next year the Dean of Westmin ster. St. Andrews University conferred on him the degree of LL.D (1871), and he was installed its rector (1875). He made a tour in the East (1852-1853), and again as chaplain to the Prince of Wales (1862), performed the Protestant marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh at St. Petersburg (1874), and visited the United States (1878). The leader after Maurice's death of the "Broad Church" party, he showed sympathies with free thought by his action in the "Essays and Reviews" and Colenso controver sies; by his presence at the second "Old Catholic" Congress; by invitations to Dissenters and Max Muller to preach or lecture in the Abbey. Among his
numerous publications are the "Life of Arnold" (1844, 9th ed. 1875) ; "Sermons and Essays on the Apostolic Age" (1846, 3d ed. (1874) ; "Memoir of Bishop Stan ley" (1850) ; "Epistles to the Corin thians, with Notes and Dissertations" (1854, 4th ed. 1876) ; "Historical Memorials of Canterbury Cathedral" (1854, 6th ed. 1872) ; "Sinai and Palestine" (1855, 20th ed. 1874) ; "Lectures on the Eastern Church" (1861, 4th ed. 1869) ; "Lectures on the Jewish Church" (3 series, 1862-1875, 7th ed. 1877) ; "Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey" (1867, 4th ed. 1874) ; "Essays on Questions of Church and State from 1850 to 1870" (1870) ; "The Athanasian Creed" (1871) ; "Lec tures on the Church of Scotland" (1872) ; and "Addresses and Sermons at St. Andrews" (1877). He married in 1863 Lady Augusta Bruce, daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin. He died in his deanery, July 18, 1881, and was buried in the chapel of Henry VII., Westmin ster Abbey.