Francis Carolus Eeles
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Francis Carolus Eeles OBE
, was an English
liturgical scholar and church historian.
Eeles was on the Advisory Committee of the Warham Guild, established in 1912. He was the first secretary of the Central Council for the Care of Churches, serving as honorary secretary from 1917 and paid secretary from 1926 until his death in 1954. He was made OBE in 1938. In 1939 he began systematically collecting details of English parish churches in order that they might be restored after wartime damage. Eeles bequeathed his books to form the nucleus of the library of the Council for the Care of Churches. His papers are held at the Church of England Record Centre.
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liturgical scholar and church historian.
Eeles was on the Advisory Committee of the Warham Guild, established in 1912. He was the first secretary of the Central Council for the Care of Churches, serving as honorary secretary from 1917 and paid secretary from 1926 until his death in 1954. He was made OBE in 1938. In 1939 he began systematically collecting details of English parish churches in order that they might be restored after wartime damage. Eeles bequeathed his books to form the nucleus of the library of the Council for the Care of Churches. His papers are held at the Church of England Record Centre.
Works
- Traditional ceremonial and customs connected with the Scottish liturgy, 1910
- (ed.) Rentale Dunkeldense : being accounts of the bishopric (A.D. 1505-1517) with Myln's Lives of the bishops (A.D. 1483-1517), 1915
- Ancient stained and painted glass in the churches of Surrey, 1930
- The coronation service, its meaning and history, 1952
Further reading
- Radford, C. A. R., 'Francis Carolus Eeles', Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History SocietySomerset Archaeological and Natural History SocietyThe Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society was founded in 1849. The Society bought Taunton Castle in 1874, and leases it to Somerset County Council to house the Museum of Somerset. A substantial proportion of the items held by the Museum were originally collected by the Society...
, vol 98 (1953), pp. 160-61