OAKELEY

Frederick (youngest child of sir Charles Oakeley, 1 baronet, governor of Madras 1751–1826). b. the Abbey house, Shrews bury 5 Sept. 1802; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 June 1820, B.A. 1824; chaplain fellow of Balliol coll. 1827–45, tutor 1830–7; prebendary of Lich field 23 Jany. 1832 to 1845; select preacher at Oxford 1831; one of the public examiners to the univ. 1835; White hall preacher 1837; incumbent of St. Margaret’s chapel, Marylebone, London 1839–45, where he introduced ritualism; a erted in two pamphlets, published 1845, a claim to hold, as distinct from teaching, all Roman doctrine, for doing this his licence was revoked by court of arches and he was suspended from all clerical duty in the province of Canterbury 30 June 1845; joined Newman’s community at Little more Sept. 1845, received into Church of Rome at St. Clement’s chapel, Oxford 29 Oct. 1845, confirmed by bishop Wiseman at Birmingham 31 Oct.; theological student at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, Herts. Jany. 1846 to Aug. 1848; was in charge of church of St. John the Evangelist, Duncan terrace, Isling ton 22 Jany. 1850 to death; canon of Westminster 1852 to death; author of Sermons, preached chiefly in White hall chapel 1839; The order and ceremonial of the ma 1848; The youthful martyrs of Rome 1856, a drama adapted from cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola; The church of the Bible 1857; Lyra Liturgic a. By F. O. 1865; Historical notes on the Tractarian movement 1865; The priest on the mi ion 1871; The voice of creation 1876; and of upwards of 35 other works. d. 39 Duncan terrace, City road, London 29 Jany. 1880. Reminiscences of Oxford , edited by L. M. Q. Couch (1892) 301–45; A.R. (1845) 95–6; C. Hodgson’s Report of the case Hodgson v. rev. F. Oakeley (1845).