Thomas Short

Thomas Vowler Short ( born September 16, 1790 in Dawlish, England; † April 13, 1872 in Gresford, Wales ) was a British clergyman and writer. From 1841 to 1846 he held the office of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, after that he was from 1846 to 1870 Bishop of St Asaph.

Life

Short was born in 1790 as son of the Archdeacon of Cornwall, William Short. After attending schools in Exeter and Westminster, he enrolled in 1809 in Christ Church College, Oxford University. 1813 consecrated him Bishop of Oxford as a deacon; a year later he joined the Office of the Perpetual Curate in Drayton, Oxfordshire, on, but he gave up quickly. 1829 Short moved to Kings Worthy in Hampshire. The Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1831 offered him the post of parish priest of St George 's Church in Bloomsbury - now a part of London - at which he accepted also. In 1837 he completed his studies with a doctorate in theology; In the same year he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Closet Queen Victoria.

1841 Short as the successor of Henry Pepys Bishop of Sodor and Man, his seat was on the Isle of Man. In 1846 he was transferred to the advice of John Russell to welsh St Asaph, where he served as bishop for the next 24 years. Two years after his retirement, in 1872, died at the age of 81 years Short in the parish of Gresford. The funeral was held in St Asaph.

Although the Oxford Movement first gained influence after Short had left the University, he was a close friend of Edward Bouverie Pusey and John Keble, who were both leaders of the movement; With him John Henry Newman, another member, passed his diploma examination.

During his time as bishop, both in Man and in St Asaph, focused its attention primarily on short educational issues. He supported particularly the construction of new schools in his diocese; when he resigned his bishopric of St Asaph, having each parish in his sphere of influence of a school building.

Works (selection)

  • Sermons on Some of the Fundamental Truths of Christianity. Oxford in 1829.
  • A Sketch of the History of the Church of England to the Revolution 1688. Oxford 1832.
  • National Education and the Means of Improving it. London 1835.
  • Letters to Mother to Aged by a Clergyman. London 1841.
  • On the management of a Parish, of Sunday Schools and the Method of Preparing catechumens for Examination. London 1847.
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