Английская Википедия:Conrad Noel

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox clergy Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel (12 July 1869 – 22 July 1942) was an English priest of the Church of England. Known as the 'Red Vicar' of Thaxted, he was a prominent Christian socialist.

Early life

Noel was born on 12 July 1869 in Royal Cottage, Kew Green, London, into an aristocratic family.Шаблон:Sfnm He was the eldest son of the poet and essayist Roden Noel, who served as Groom of the Privy Chamber, and his wife Alice Maria Caroline Noel (née de Broë).Шаблон:Sfnm His paternal grandfather was Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, and his paternal grandmother Lady Gainsborough was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria.Шаблон:Sfnm Noel's parents were both Anglican, though in his youth, Noel repudiated the Calvinism of his mother and attended higher-church services with his father.Шаблон:Sfn

He was educated at Wellington College and at Cheltenham College, then also an all-boys public school.Шаблон:Sfn[1] He then entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, but was rusticated (suspended) for a year and chose not to return to complete his degree.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

Ecclesiastical career

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St John's Church, Thaxted

Noel underwent training for ordination at Chichester Theological College, an Anglo-Catholic theological school.Шаблон:Sfn At first he was refused ordination into the Church of England because of his theological views: he had been offered a curacy at All Saints Church in Plymouth, but on the day on which he was scheduled to be ordained, the Bishop of Exeter refused to ordain him.Шаблон:Sfnm

In 1894, he was ordained deacon in the Diocese of Chester and became a curate in Flowery Field, Cheshire, but left following parishioners' objections to his socialism.Шаблон:Sfn He also spent time as a curate at St Philip's in Newcastle, under W. E. Moll.Шаблон:Sfn Also in 1894, he married Miriam Greenwood.Шаблон:Sfn In late 1904 he became assistant priest to Percy Dearmer at Primrose Hill.

In 1910, he became the vicar of Thaxted, EssexШаблон:Sfn presented by the patron of the living Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, who was herself a socialist.Шаблон:Sfn

Within Thaxted Parish Church, Noel hung the red flag and the flag of Sinn Féin alongside the flag of Saint George.Шаблон:Sfn This led to the "Battle of the Flags" with students from Cambridge leading attacks on the church to remove the flags.Шаблон:Citation needed Eventually, in 1922 a consistory court ruled against displaying the flags and Noel obeyed the ruling.Шаблон:Sfn

He founded the socialist organization Catholic Crusade in 1918,Шаблон:Sfn which had some impact in the origins of Trotskyism in Britain.Шаблон:Sfn

On Noel's perspective on the Middle Ages, which was similar to that of William Morris and John Ruskin,Шаблон:Sfn Reginald Groves wrote: Шаблон:Quote

Politics

Having become a socialist shortly after finishing his university studies, he joined the Social Democratic Federation.Шаблон:Sfn He joined the Independent Labour Party, but in 1911 became a member of the newly formed British Socialist Party.Шаблон:Sfn

Noel also supported the British Provisional Committee for the Defence of Leon Trotsky, and signed a letter defending Trotsky's right to asylum and calling for an international inquiry into the Moscow Trials.Шаблон:Sfn

Personal life

He was a friend of the composer Gustav Holst who also lived for some years in the town of Thaxted.Шаблон:Sfn

He died of cancer on 22 July 1942 aged 73.Шаблон:Sfnm A sculpture by Gertrude Hermes is in Thaxted church.

Publications

  • Ought Christians to be Socialists?, 1909. Transcript of a debate with the Christadelphian Frank Jannaway.
  • Socialism in Church History. London: Frank Palmer, 1910.
  • The Life of Jesus. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1937.
  • Jesus the Heretic. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1939

See also

References

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