Charles William Stubbs was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 clergyman.

He was born in Liverpool

Liverpool

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 and educated at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution

Liverpool Collegiate Institution

The Liverpool Collegiate Institution is a former school in Liverpool, England.It opened its doors to pupils on 6 January 1843. The Institution was a day school for boys, sons of middle class Liverpudlians, and aimed to provide them with a suitable education encompassing instruction in the...

 and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

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. As a clergyman he held several incumbencies, among them rector at Wavertree

Wavertree

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 and Granborough

Granborough

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

Politics

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 and in his theological

Theology

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 opinions. He was Dean of Ely

Dean of Ely

The position of Dean of Ely Cathedral, in East Anglia, England, was created at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The first Dean of Ely had been the last Benedictine prior of Ely.-List of Deans:*1541-1557 Robert Steward or Welles...

 1894 to 1906 when he was appointed the fourth Bishop of Truro

Bishop of Truro

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.
His proper style was The Right Reverend Charles William Stubbs, D.D.

Selected works

• Co-operation & Owenite Socialist Communities/The Land and the Labourers (1884)
• The Land and the Labourers (1893)
• Charles Kingsley and the Christian Social Movement (1899)
• Social Teachings of the Lord's Prayer (1900)
• The Christ of English Poetry (1906)
• Cambridge and its Story (1912)
• Hymns, including Christ was born on Christmas Night and Carol of King Cnut