John Ernest Bode

BODE, John Ernest. b. London, 23 February 1816; d. Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, 6 October 1874. He was educated at two schools, Eton and Charterhouse, followed by Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1837, MA 1840). He became a Student (a Fellow) of Christ Church (1841-47), and took Holy Orders (deacon 1841, priest 1843). He was vicar of Westwell, Oxfordshire (1847-60), and of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire (1860-74). He gave the prestigious Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1855, published under the title The Absence of Precision in the Formularies of the Church of England, scriptural and favourable to a State of Probation, a title suggesting his opposition to Roman Catholicism, which was attracting many...