Nathaniel Woodard
Nathaniel Woodard (* March 21, 1811, † April 25, 1891 ) was a priest of the Church of England. He founded eleven schools in England, whose aim was to make an educated academic training and education to offer that was based on a deep Christian faith. His ideas are now represented by the Woodard Corporation.
Youth
Woodard was born in Basildon in Essex Hall, the son of an impoverished nobleman and was privately educated and trained by his pious and God-fearing mother. In 1834 he entered the Hertford College, Oxford, where he was interrupted by his marriage until 1840 studied theology. Due to the strong influence of his mother Woodard developed in early youth first strong sympathies for the evangelicalism. During his studies, but he approached the tract Aryan movement and developed an Anglo- Catholic attitude, which remained his life got.
Career
Woodards ordination took place in 1841. He then worked as a Vicar of the Church of St. Bartholomew's in Bethnal Green before because of a controversial sermon to the church of St. John's was transferred to Lower Clapton. During his tenure in Bethnal Green Woodard founded a school for the children of socially disadvantaged members of the community.
In 1846, Woodard took over the Vicariate of St. Mary's Church in Shoreham- by-Sea and was here again confronted with the poverty and lack of education of large sections of the community. Therefore, he also opened a day school here first, before the St. Nicholas School (now Lancing College) in 1848, in the school chapel his sarcophagus still stands today, founded. This school was just a year later renamed the College of St. Mary and St. Nicholas.
From this time on, Woodard concentrated almost exclusively on the development of its school projects and resigned his Vicariate. He was supported in his efforts by Edward Clarke Lowe, a principal at many of its schools, but also was not afraid to deal with content Woodard. So he stood up to Woodard and led him to admit to its schools in Abbots Bromley in 1874 and women.
His great success in the establishment of educational institutions was born 1870 in invoice 's, when Oxford University awarded him a doctorate and he was made by William Ewart Gladstone to the canon of Manchester Cathedral. The majority of its generous Domherrenpfründe Woodard used for the construction and expansion of its schools. He received great admiration and that he allowed his school because of his strong faith, no access restrictions on members of other churches.
Selected schools were founded
- Lancing College ( 1848)
- Hurstpierpoint College ( 1849)
- Ardingly College ( 1858)
- Denstone College (formerly St Chad's - 1868)
- Abbots Bromley School for Girls (formerly School of S. Mary and S. Anne - 1874)
- King's College ( Taunton ) ( 1880)
- Ellesmere College ( 1884)
- Worksop College (formerly St. Cuthbert 's College )
References and further reading
- Leonard and Evelyn Cowie: That One Idea: Nathaniel Woodard and His Schools. 1991