The Henson Journals

[John] Athelstan Riley

Athelstan Riley (1858-1945; WWW), ecclesiologist, antiquary, and leading lay churchman. Pembroke Coll., Oxford; member, House of Laymen, province of Canterbury, 1892, and later Church Assembly; as member of London School Board from 1891 fought for Christian religious teaching in its schools, and defended Church schools in the education controversies of the 1900s; vice-president, English Church Union; major contributor to The English Hymnal (1906); supported re-union of the Church of England with the Eastern churches: Times, 19 Nov., 1945, 6. See also Volume 69, 70, 71, 80.

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