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A CENTENARY
The year 2001 was the centenary of the death of Thomas Thellusson Carter,
Rector of Clewer from 1844 to 1880. In his day Carter was a man of national
importance in the Church. He it was who founded the Convent of St. John the
Baptist in Hatch Lane but he also founded a great many charitable institutions.
I think he is probably the only parochial clergyman to merit an entry in The
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (O.U.P. 1957) It reads as follows:
CARTER, THOMAS THELLUSSON (1808 - 1901) sub-Tractarian divine Educated at
Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he left Oxford before the Oxford Movement began,
but when, after a series of parochial appointments he became Rector of Clewer,
near Windsor, in 1844, he had come deeply under Tractarian influence. In 1849 he
founded at Clewer a House of Mercy for the rescue of fallen women, and in 1852 a
Sisterhood to take charge of it. Throughout the rest of his life he continued to
take a prominent part in the High Church Movement. He was the author of a long
series of spiritual and controversial writings, including the widely used
"Treasury of Devotion" (1869).
"Tractarianism" was the movement started by the issue of tracts
from Oxford by J. H. Newman and others, asserting the Catholicity of the C. of
E. During the course of the year 2001, a number of articles about Carter will
appear in this magazine. The Clewer Group are arranging various events
associated with the Centenary.
Denis Shaw
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