RARE "Archbishop of Canterbury" Frederick Temple Cut Signature For Sale

Up for sale the "Archbishop of Canterbury" Frederick Temple Cut Signature.

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Frederick Temple (30

November 1821 – 23 December 1902) was an Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1896 until

his death. As archbishop he presided in 1897 over the

decennial Lambeth Conference. In the same

year Temple and Archbishop of York William Maclagan issued a joint response to Apostolicae

curae, an encyclical of the pope which denied the validity of Anglican orders. In

1899 the archbishops again acted together, when an appeal was addressed to them

by the united episcopate, to rule on the use of incense in divine service and on the carrying of lights in

liturgical processions. After hearing the arguments the two archbishops decided

against both practices. During his archbishopric Temple was deeply distressed

by the divisions which were weakening the Anglican Church, and many of his most memorable sermons were calls for

unity. His first charge as primate on

"Disputes in the Church" was felt to be a most powerful plea for a

more catholic and a more charitable temper, and again and again during the

closing years of his life he came back to this same theme. He was zealous also

in the cause of foreign missions, and in a sermon preached at the opening of

the new century he urged that a supreme obligation rested upon Britain at this

epoch in the world's history to seek to evangelise all nations. In 1900 he

presided over the World Temperance Congress in London, and on one occasion

preached in the interests of women's education.On 9 August 1902, he discharged

the important duties of his office at the coronation of

King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and two days later was received

in private audience by the King and Queen to be presented with the Royal Victorian Chain, a new decoration

founded by the King in honour of his mother. In early October that year he

visited St. David′s Theological College in Lampeter,

Wales, for its 75th anniversary. The strain at his advanced age told upon his

health, however. During a speech which he delivered in the House of

Lords on 2 December 1902 on the Education Bill of that year, he was taken ill,

and, though he revived sufficiently to finish his speech, he never fully

recovered, and died on 23 December 1902. He was interred in Canterbury Cathedral four days later,

where his grave is located in the cloister garden. His second son, William Temple, became Archbishop of

Canterbury thirty-nine years later and is buried close to him.