LID'DON, PARRY (1829-90). An Eng lish clergyman, generally acknowledged to have been the greatest pulpit orator of his time in the Church of England. He was born at North Stoneham, Hampshire, and educated at King's College School. London, and Christ Church, Ox ford, where he took his degree in 1850. He was ordained deacon in 1852 and priest in 1853, pro ceeding to his first pastoral work at \Vantage. In 1854 he was chosen to be the first vice-prin •ipal of Bishop Wilberforee's new theological college at Cuoldesdon; but the pronounced Church views which he had imbibed at Oxford from as sociation with Pusey and Keble, his intimate friends through life, led to his resignation in 1859. He then became vice-principal of Saint Edmund's Hall, and exercised a great and growing influ ence in university affairs. In 1870 .he was ap pointed Ireland professor of exegesis, but re signed his chair in 1882 and took thereafter no active part in Oxford affairs. regarding the changes made by the Universities Commission as a repudiation of religious influence. From 1870 until his death he was a canon of Saint Paul's, London, and here exercised his widest influence.
His sermons recalled the traditions of the best days of French preaching. He took a leading part in numerous important movements, in oppo sition to the Public Worship Regulation Act. in defense of the Athanasian Creed, in the founda tion at Oxford of Keble College and the Pu,ey House, and in censure of what he considered the dangerous teachings of Lux Mandl (see GORE. CHARLES). At the time of his death he was en gaged in the preparation of an elaborate life of Dr. Pusey, and had three volumes practically completed; it was afterwards edited for publica tion by •Johnston and Wilson (2d ed., 4 vols., Lon don, 1893-97). He was elected Bishop of Edin burgh in 1886, but did not accept. Hi, pub lished works consist largely of sermons, of which the most important are his Hampton Lectures On the Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (1866). Consult Donaldson, Fire Great Oxford Leaders (London, 1900).