STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN ( 1815-81). An English scholar and divine. He was born at Alderley, of which his father (afterwards Bishop of Norwich) was rector. From 1829 to 1834 he was at Rugby, where he was profoundly im pressed by the extraordinary influence of Dr. Arnold, then head master, which molded his whole life. His own position in the school was one of marked power, the im pression of which is reproduced in Hughes's Tons Brown's School Days, though Hughes and Stanley were not. as is frequently supposed, intimate friends at Rugby. He went up in 1S34 to Balliol College, Oxford, where lie achieved a brilliant reputation. In 1838 he was elected a fellow of Uni versity College, was ordained deacon in 1829, and priest in 1843, and soon acquired a great in fluence, taking a definite stand in favor of lati tude and liberality in religious matters, defending both Ward and Hampden. as in later years he de fended Jowett and Colenso. He was made Canon of Canterbury in 1851, regins professor of ec clesiastical history and Canon of Christ Church in 1856, and Dean of Westminster in 1S64. Here he assumed a commanding position, and used it, as the recognized leader of the Broad Church party in England, for widening the bounds of the national Church, His preaching was more ethical than doctrinal, and his intercourse with those outside the Church of England, whom he wel comed to the Abbey and even to its pulpit, al though it offended many strict churchmen, gained him a wide popularity. He accompanied the
Prince of Wales (now King Edward VII.) on his tour through the East in 1862; and w•as closely associated with Queen Victoria, whose chaplain he was for many years. In 1863 he married Lady Augusta Bruce, daughter of the Earl of Elgin; her death iu 1676 gave him a shock from which he did not recover. He visited the United States in 1876, traveled widely, and made many mem orable addresses which were published under the title of Addresses and Sermons in America. Ilis most important literary work was his Life and Correspondence of Dr. Arnold (1844). Other noteworthy books were his Sinai and Palestine (1856) ; Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church (1S61); Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church (1863-76): Essays on Church and State (1870); and Christian Ihstitutio-as (1871). Consult: l'rothero, Life and Correspondence of Dean Stan ley (London, 1893) : id., Letters and Verses of Dean Stanley (ib., 1895) ; Bradley, Recollections of _1. 1'. Stanley (ib., 1883).