CHUBCH,  Richard  William  (1815-90),
Dean  of  St.  Paul's,  born  in  Lisbon,  eldest  son  of
an  English  merchant,  who  until  his  marriage
had  been  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.
His  early  years  were  spent  in  Italy,  where
his  uncle,  afterwards  General  Sir  Richard
Church,  held  a  command  in  the  kingdom  of
Naples.  He  was  educated  at  Exeter,  and  at
Redlands,  near  Bristol,  a  school  of  strictly
Evangelical  principles.  He  went  to  Wadham
College,  Oxford,  then  a  centre  of  Evangelical-
ism, in  1833,  but  was  influenced  by  his
brother-in-law,  G.  Moberly,  later  Bishop  of
Salisbury,  then  Fellow  of  Balliol,  a  High
Churchman.  He  won  a  First  Class  in  Classics,
1836,  and  a  Fellowship  at  Oriel,  1838.  In
the  interval  he  had  come  to  know  Newman
[q.v.)  and  C.  Marriott  {q.v.),  and  translated
(for  the  '  Library  of  the  Fathers  ')  St.  Cyril  of
Jerusalem  (published,  1838).  On  his  election
to  Oriel,  R.  Michell,  an  Oxford  tutor,  said :
'  There  is  such  a  moral  beauty  about  Church
they  could  not  help  taking  him.'  Church  was
now  a,  convinced  adherent  of  the  Oxford
Movement  and  an  intimate  friend  of  Newman.
In  this  year  he  formed  the  other  great  friend-
ships of  his  life,  with  Sir  F.  Rogers  (later  Lord
Blaohford)  and  with  J.  B.  Mozley  (q.v.).
He  was    ordained    deacon  Advent,    1839.
