Francis Procter

A revision of this book first released in 1901 by Walter Frere–known as "Procter and Frere"–became a leading academic history of Anglican liturgy.

Francis Procter graduated in 1835 with a BA; he was ranked 30th wrangler and, in the Classical Tripos, eleventh in the second class.

In 1842, he left parochial ministry and served as a fellow and assistant tutor at his former college of St Catharine's, a position he remained at until 1847.

According to liturgical historian Walter Frere, the textbook was in the academic tradition of Charles Wheatly's "sound exposition".

[3]: 82  The expanded version, entitled A New History of the Book of Common Prayer, was part of a number of similar early 20th-century historical studies by members of the Alcuin Club which also included F. E. Brightman's The English Rite.

[3]: 81 [note 3] Francis Procter married Margaret in 1848; she was the daughter of Thomas Meryon of Rye, Sussex.

Photograph of the exterior of St Margaret's Church, Streatley, and churchyard
Procter was curate at St Margaret's Church, Streatley, from 1836 until 1840.