Edward Carpenter

CARPENTER, Edward. b. Hove, Sussex, 29 August 1844; d. Guildford, Surrey, 28 June 1929. He was educated at Brighton College (1854-63) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1868, MA 1870). He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity Hall, and took Holy Orders (deacon 1869, priest 1870). He became curate at St Edward’s Church, Cambridge to Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-72), the great Christian Socialist, who was then at the end of his long and controversial career as a liberal thinker within the Church of England. Carpenter, who was greatly influenced by Maurice, continued as curate after Maurice’s death, but left the church in 1874. He became a university extension lecturer in and around Leeds and...