Lancelot Phelps (priest)

[4] Phelps was educated at Charterhouse[5] and Oriel College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1872, graduating B.A.

[6] He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1879,[7] but not as a priest until 1896.

His career was spent as a Fellow and Tutor at Oriel.

He was also an Alderman of Oxford and a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress from 1905 to 1909.

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Portrait of Lancelot Ridley Phelps (1853–1936), Provost of Oriel College, Oxford.