The Mind and Work of Bishop King
Overview
This volume is not a biography, at least not in the ordinary acceptance of that term. It is but little concerned with chronology, it aims rather at being a portrait, or at least a sketch, of one of the most remarkable spiritual leaders of the last half of the nineteenth century: Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln. Here was a man who, during the 56 years of his ordained life, exercised from the first to last a strangely powerful influence on those with whom he came in contact; and his influence was always of the best kind. It never seemed to fail—as curate in a country parish, as principal of a theological college, as a university professor, and, finally, for 25 years, as a bishop. This volume includes numerous illustrations and photographs.
Berkeley William Randolph (1858–1925) was educated at Haileybury and Balliol College, Oxford, and was ordained a priest in 1882. He was a fellow of St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury, from 1880 to 1883, and principal of St. Stephen’s House, Oxford, from 1884 to 1885. He was then appointed principal of Ely Theological College in 1891.