William John Copeland

COPELAND, William John. b. Chigwell, Essex, 1 September 1804; d. Farnham, Surrey, 25 August 1885. He was educated at St Paul’s School and Trinity College, Oxford (BA 1829, MA 1831, BD 1840). He was a Fellow of the College, and Dean (1832-49). During this time he translated and edited Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians, and Homilies on the Epistle to the Ephesians of S John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (Oxford, 1848).  He took Holy Orders ( deacon 1829, priest 1830) and served a curacy at Hackney, London, and Littlemore, Oxford (he was curate there from 1840, and remained there after the conversion in 1845 of his friend John Henry Newman*, to whom he was devoted). After...