Introduction

Biography

Stubbs was edu­cat­ed at the Li­ver­pool Col­le­gi­ate In­sti­tu­tion and Sid­ney Sus­sex Col­lege, Cam­bridge (BA 1868, MA 1876).

Ordained in 1868, he served in a num­ber of po­si­tions, in­clud­ing rec­tor at Wa­ver­tree and Gran­bo­rough, Dean of Ely (1894–1906), and fourth Bi­shop of Tru­ro (1906–12).

He took a great in­ter­est in the work­ing clas­ses and in so­cial sub­jects, and was li­ber­al in both his po­li­ti­cal and theo­lo­gic­al opin­ions.

Works

• Village Po­li­tics: Ad­dress­es and Ser­mons on the La­bour Ques­tion (Lon­don: Mac­mil­lan, 1878)
• Cooperation & Owen­ite So­cial­ist Com­mu­ni­ties, 1884
• Christ and De­mo­cra­cy (Lon­don: W. Swan Son­nen­schein, 1884)
• The Land and the La­bour­ers (Lon­don: W. Swan Son­nen­schein, 1884)
• Christus Im­per­a­tor: A Ser­ies of Lec­ture-Ser­mons on the Uni­vers­al Em­pire of Chris­ti­an­it­y (Lon­don & New York: Mac­mil­lan, 1894)
• Charles Kings­ley and the Chris­tian So­cial Move­ment (Lon­don: Black­ie & Son, 1899)
• Brythnoth’s Pray­er, and Oth­er Po­ems, 1899
• Social Teach­ings of the Lord’s Pray­er (New York: T. Whit­ta­ker, 1900)
• The Sto­ry of Cam­bridge (Lon­don: J. M. Dent, 1905)
• The Christ of Eng­lish Po­et­ry (Lon­don: J. M. Dent, 1906)
• Cambridge and Its Sto­ry (Lon­don: J. M. Dent, 1912)