Richard William Church

1815–1890 · Church of England (Tractarian) · London, England

Richard William Church (1815–1890) was Dean of St Paul’s from 1871 and the historian of the Oxford Movement, of which he had been a junior member as Fellow of Oriel. His preaching at St Paul’s was grave and unrhetorical, and his Advent sermons of 1885 were published after his death.