William Geikie-Cobb

William Frederick Geikie-Cobb (born Danbury 1857 – died London 1941) was an Anglican priest^[1] and author,^[2] most notable for his willingness to remarry divorced people in church.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Geikie-Cobb was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford^[6] and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1883. He served curacies at Send, Addlestone, Winchester and Kentish Town. He was rector of St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate from 1900 until his death.^[7] During his tenure he was able to officiate at the remarriage of many divorced people,^[8] partly because the then Bishop of London had increasingly lost control of discipline within the diocese.^[9]

He died on 14 December 1941.^[10]

Notes

^ Cobb, Gerald (1942). The Old Churches of London. London: B. T. Batsford.
^ Amongst others he wrote "The Letters of St Bernard", 1890; "Origines Judaicae, 1895; Theology Old and New, 1901; "Some notes on the church of Saint Ethelburga the Virgin within Bishopsgate", 1904; "The book of Psalms", 1905; Mysticism and the Creed, 1914; The Path of the Soul, 1923; "The New Testament and Divorce", 1924; and "The Humanist's Hornbook", 1934 British Library web site accessed 10:57 GMT Wednesday, 9 July 2017
^ radar.brookes
^ The Church And Divorce. W. F. GEIKIE-COBB. D.D.The Times (London, England), Friday, 17 November 1922; pg. 11; Issue 43191
^ Spectator archive
^ GEIKIE-COBB, Rev. William Frederick’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 9 Aug 2017
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 p 478 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
^ Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
^ "Geoffrey Fisher: Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945–1961" Hein, D. Cambridge : James Clarke & Co., 2008 ISBN 9781597528245
^ "Obituaries". The Times (London, England), Monday, 15 December 1941; pg. 6; Issue 49109.

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