Carpenter was the uncle of Mrs Henry Williams of Moor Park House, Beckwithshaw, North Yorkshire. In 1897 he consecrated St Michaels and All Angels Church at Beckwithshaw, after she and her husband had funded its construction.[2][3][4]
He was an advocate for the poor and against the caste system in India, stating during a religious lecture at the University of Oxford that "we must show fierce scorn against the hateful laws of caste and proclaim the natural equality of all men".[5]
Education and career
"A man Right Reverend and Well-Beloved"; Boyd Carpenter as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, March 1906
Permanent Elements of Religion (Bampton lectures, 1889)
Popular History of the Church of England (1900)
Witness to the Influence of Christ (1905)
Some Pages of my Life (1911)
Life's Tangled Thread (1912)
The Apology of Experience (1913)
The Burning Bush and Other Sermons. (1893)
Family
In 1864 Carpenter married his first wife, Harriet Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. J. W. Peers, of Chislehampton. They had four sons and four daughters, including:
Henry John Boyd-Carpenter (1865–1923), colonial official in Egypt, where he was Chief Inspector to the Ministry of Public Instruction, then Inspector General of Schools; who married in Epperstone on 16 December 1902 Ethel Ley, daughter of Sir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet, of Epperstone Manor, Nottinghamshire.[10]
Harriet died in 1887 and in 1883 Carpenter married secondly, Annie Maude, daughter of publisher[11] W. W. Gardner, with whom he had a son and three daughters.[12][13]
The composer Stephen Oliver (1950–1992), through his mother (Charlotte) Hester Girdlestone born 1911, granddaughter of Carpenter), and his nephew, the comedian John Oliver (b. 1977), are descendants.[14]
A medieval knight sporting an early example of the Carpenter arms
References
^David Morris, 'Bishop Boyd Carpenter: Sheep or Shepherd in the Eugenics Movement?' Archived 6 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Galton Institute Newsletter, 55, June 2005
^Carpenter, William Boyd (1889). The permanent elements of religion : eight lectures preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1887 . Princeton Theological Seminary Library. London: Macmillan.
^"Carpenter, William Boyd (CRPR860WB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^"Glasgow University Jubilee". The Times. No. 36481. London. 14 June 1901. p. 10. Retrieved 5 January 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Stephenson, A. M. G.; Brodie, Marc. "Major, Henry Dewsbury Alves (1871–1961)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34839. William Boyd Carpenter, bishop of Ripon, an eloquent evangelical who had developed broad-church leanings.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^H. D. A. Major, ‘Carpenter, William Boyd (1841–1918)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 14 April 2009
^"Marriages". The Times. No. 36956. London. 20 December 1902. p. 1. Retrieved 5 January 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, Kristine Moruzi, Taylor & Francis, 2016, footnote 15
^Armorial Families, A. C. Fox-Davies, T. C. & E. C. Jack (Edinburgh), 1895, p. 837
^Pollock, Adam (2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oliver, Stephen Michael Harding (1950-1992), composer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). OUP. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51267. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)