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...William Belden Noble lectures for the year 1912-1913 will be given by the Right Reverend Canon William B. Boyd-Carpenter, formerly Bishop of Ripon, Yorkshire, England. William Belden Noble, in whose memory the lectures bearing his name were founded, was a prominent and popular member of the class of 1885. In 1888 he returned to Cambridge and studied for two years in the Episcopal Theological School, but on account of his health was forced to leave the school and abandon his ambition to be ordained as a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1898 his wife, mindful...
...Boyd-Carpenter was born in Ripon in 1869. He has secured degrees from several English universities, and has worked for a time as a journalist. His chief interest, however, has been centered on social and industrial questions, he having worked for a time with the navvies on railway construction and during the building of the Manchester Ship Canal. More recently he has been engaged as one of the English representatives for the American Institute of Social Service. He delivered the Noble Lectures in 1904, his subject being "The Attitude of Jesus Christ Toward Foreign Races and Religions...
...second son of Hon. J. C. Talbot, fourth son of Earl Talbot. He received his early education at the Charterhouse School, and later studied at Christ Church, Oxford. Among the many positions that he has held, have been the following: Vicar of Leeds, 1889-95; Hon. Canon of Ripon; Chaplain-in-ordinary to the Queen, 1894. From 1895 to 1905 he was Bishop of Rochester and from 1905 to 1911 he was Bishop of Southwark. In 1911 he was made Bishop of Winchester...
...lectures last year were delivered by the Bishop of Ripon...
Among the recent acquisitions by the Gore Hall Library are the "Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton," and the "The Witness to the Influence of Christ," the William Belden Noble lectures delivered last year by the Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, England...