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RARE “Archbishop of York" William Magee Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1871:
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Up for sale "Archbishop of York" William Magee Signed Envelope Panel Dated 1871. 

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William

Connor Magee DD DCL (17

December 1821 – 5 May 1891) was an Irish clergyman of the Anglican church, Bishop of of York for

a short period in 1891. He was born in Cork,

Ireland. His father was a minor canon of St Fin Barre's Cathedral,

Cork and a curate of the parish attached to the Anglican cathedral; his grandfather Dublin. Young Magee was educated at Kilkenny College and entered Trinity

College, Dublin with a scholarship at thirteen. In

November 1843, he delivered the inaugural address as Auditor of the

reformed College Historical Society,

in Trinity College.

He was ordained in 1844 to the curacy of St Thomas's, Dublin, but, being

threatened with tuberculosis, went after

two years to Málaga, Spain. On his return he took a

curacy at Bath, England (1849–1851)

and was soon appointed to the Octagon Chapel (1851–1860),

where his fame both as preacher and platform speaker continued to spread. Some

years afterwards he was made prebendary of Wells Cathedral. In 1860, poor health caused him to accept the

living of Enniskillen, Ireland. In 1864 he was

made Dean of Cork and in

1866, additionally, Dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, and a chaplain to

the Lord Lieutenant. Here he showed those great gifts which ultimately raised

him to high office; a powerful grasp of mental, moral and political problems,

combined with eloquence of a high order, illuminated with brilliant flashes of

wit. In 1868 the question of the disestablishment of the Irish church came to the fore, and Magee threw himself

into its defence with his usual energy and vivacity. The success of his

orations caused Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli to offer him the bishopric of Peterborough, England. He justified his appointment by his

magnificent speech when the Disestablishment Bill reached the House of Lords in 1869, and then plunged into diocesan

and general work in England. He preached three remarkable sermons on Christian

Evidence in Norwich Cathedral in

1871. He took up the temperance question,

and declared in the House of Lords that he would rather see "England free

than England compulsorily sober", a statement which was misquoted and

attacked. Initially highly critical of the calling of the second Lambeth Conference (1878)

he was won over by the experience, writing in his biography that, I feel I have

learned much from the Pananglican and I see, too, that it is really an

institution which will root itself and will ... exercise a powerful

influence in the future of the Anglican Communion. That is a great deal so say

on the part of one who greatly disliked and dreaded the affair from the first He

was also a supporter of the movement for abolishing the recitation of the Athanasian Creed in the public services of the Church of

England, believing, as he said, that the "presence" of the damnatory

clauses, "as they stand and where they stand, is a real peril to the

Church and to Christianity itself", and that those clauses "are no

essential part" of the creed. The project was laid aside because of the

hostility of a large body of the clergy, reinforced by the threat of Edward Bouverie Pusey and

Canon Henry Parry Liddon to

abandon their offices if it were carried. He was elevated to the see of York in

January 1891 and enthroned on 17 March. By this time his energies were

exhausted, and he died on 5 May, four months after his appointment. He was

buried at Peterborough Cathedral.

The life-size marble effigy marking his grave lies in the south aisle.

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