Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The whig/ Sydney Smith

The bibliomaniac/ Francis Wrangham

The Tractarian/ Edward Bouverie

The novelist/ Charles Kingsley

The humorist/ Alred Ainger

The vice-chancellor/ Arthur Mason

The mathematician/ James Wilson

The social reformer/ Samuel Barnett

The master of ceremonies/ Percy Dearmer

The liberal evangelical/ Vernon Faithfull Storr

The parish priest/ Peter Green

The broadcaster/ W.H. Elliot

The naturalist/ Charles Raven

The extraordinary headmaster/ John Shirley

The Belgian monk/ Emmanuel Amand de Mendieta

The missionary statesman/ Max Warren

The patristic scholar/ Geoffrey Lampe

The sceptical believer/ Alec Vidler

The protester/ John Collins

The original theologian/ W.H. Vanstone

Canons functional or canons theologian: looking ahead