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For the British physicist Francis Edwin Close, see
Frank Close .
Anglican rector
Poster printed during the 1876 Burnley by-election campaign, quoting Close calling for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Francis Close (11 July 1797 – 18 December 1882) was the Anglican rector of Cheltenham (1826–1856) and Dean of Carlisle (1856–1881).[1]
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Close was born on 11 July 1797 in Frome , Somerset , the youngest son of the Rev. Henry Jackson Close , who was at one time Rector of Bentworth , near Alton , in Hampshire .[2] Enrolling at St. John's College, Cambridge , in 1816, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1820 and was elevated to MA in 1825.[3] During the same time period, he was ordained a deacon in 1820 and a priest the following year. In 1822, he was assigned as curate of Willesden and Kingsbury in the London area.[4] Two years later, in 1824, he was assigned to Cheltenham and the parish church of St Mary's , and when the rector died in 1826, he was elevated to that office.[5]
Close served as rector for thirty years, where he was a popular preacher and a noted evangelical . He was a vociferous opponent of the Oxford Movement . He advocated for the creation of a training college for schoolteachers and opposed alcohol, tobacco, horse racing, and theatrical amusements.[4] He was involved in the provision of new churches in Cheltenham.[6] On 24 November 1856, he was nominated to be Dean of Carlisle Cathedral by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston , and the appointment was approved by the Queen.[5] [7] That same year, the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity upon Close. He remained as Dean of Carlisle until 1881, when failing health forced him to resign.[5] At the time of his resignation, he was the oldest of all deans in the Church of England[2] He died in Penzance the following year, on 12 December 1882, and was buried in Carlisle Cathedral.[2]
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Close married twice: in 1820, he married Anne Diana Arden, and in 1880, he married Mary Antrim.[5]
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Close was the author of around seventy books and pamphlets, though by 1887 few were considered "of any permanent value."[5] In 1885, a marble statue of Close was installed in Carlisle Cathedral after a public collection of funds for the purpose.[5] Dean Close School and Francis Close Hall , both in Cheltenham , were named in his honour.
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^ "Close, Francis (CLS816F)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ a b "The Late Dean of Carlisle" . Marlborough Express . Vol. XVII, no. 297. New Zealand. 20 December 1882. p. 2 . Retrieved 17 February 2010 .
^ a b c d e f Boase, George Clement (1887). "Close, Francis" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 123–124.
^ "No. 20521" . The London Gazette . 28 October 1845. p. 3227.
^ "No. 21944" . The London Gazette . 25 November 1856. p. 3919.
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