STANLEY, stan'ff, Arthur Penrhyn, Eng lish Anglican clergyman and author, popularly .known as Dean Stanley: b. Alderley, Cheshire, 13 Dec. 1815; d. London, 18 July 1881. He was educated first at Rugby, where he conceived an abiding love and veneration for Dr. Thomas Arnold (q.v.) and gained a unique position in the school. In 1834 he entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he had a brilliant career and in 1838 was elected a Fellow of University Col lege. He took deacon's orders in 1839 and priest's in 1843, became a college tutor in 1843 and was appointed in 1845 preacher to Oxford University. In that capacity he preached four sermons, which were published as 'Sermons on the Apostolic Age,' in 1847, at a critical time in the religious history of Oxford. In these Stan ley stood aloof from both the Evangelicals and the high churchmen, taking, rather, a rational istic position. He was presented to a canonry of 1851 and shortly afterward traveled extensively in Palestine and Egypt. In 1856 he was appointed professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxford and canon of Christ Church, and in 1863 was made dean of Westminster. In this position, as the acknowledged head of the Broad Church party, he exercised an important influence, though the width of his sympathy and his tolerant spirit exposed him to attacks from many of narrower views within the Anglican Church. In 1863 he married Lady Augusta Bruce, daughter of the 7th Earl of Elgin (died 1876), to whom he owed much of his social popularity. He visited America in 1878 and
delivered many notable sermons and ad dresses (see bibliography). He was the author of numerous works, among which are 'Life of Arnold) (1844) 'Memoir of Bishop Stanley,) his father (1856) ' • 'Memorials of Canterbury Cathedral' (1854) ; 'Commentary on the Epistles to the Corinthians> (1855) ; 'Sinai and Palestine' (1856) ; 'Three Introductory Lec tures to the Study of Ecclesiastical History' (1857) ; 'Lectures on the History of the East ern Church' (1861) ; 'Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church' (1863-76) ' • 'Sermons in the East' (1863) ,• (Memorials of Westminster Abbey) (1868) ; on Questions of Church and State) (1870) ; 'The Athanasian Creed' (1871) ; (Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland) (1872); • (Addresses and Sermons delivered at St. Andrews' (1877) ; and Sermons delivered in the United States and Canada> (1879); Institutions' (1881). The breadth and tolerance characteris tic of Stanley's religious views were well shown in his attitude. toward Bishop Colenso, whom he supported without endorsing his opinions on the Pentateuch and in his article on the famous and Reviews) contributed to the Edin burgh Review of April 1861. Consult Brad ley, (Recollections of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley' (1883) ; Prothero, (Life and Correspondence of Dean Stanley' (1893) and 'Letters and Verses of Dean Stanley> (1895).