Charles Oakley

OAKLEY, Charles Edward. b. Brompton, near Chatham, Kent, 9 January 1832; d. Abergele, Rhyl, North Wales, 15 September 1865. Educated at Rugby School and Pembroke College, Oxford, and then at Magdalen College as a Demy (scholar), he took a First Class in Literae Humaniores (Greek and Latin literature and philosophy) in 1854, and a First Class in Law and Modern History (1855), when he was also Johnson Theological Scholar (1855). He served as a chaplain to the army in the Crimean War (1855) before becoming vicar of Wickwar, Gloucestershire (1856-63) and then of St Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, where he died after a tragically short incumbency (1863-65). Various books quote warm tributes to...