17 Facts About Handley Moule

Handley Carr Glyn Moule was an evangelical Anglican theologian, writer, poet, and Bishop of Durham from 1901 to 1920.

Handley Moule was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1865, and became an assistant master at Marlborough College before he was ordained deacon in 1867 and priest in 1868.

Handley Moule was consecrated as a bishop in York Minster on 18 October 1901.

Handley Moule was active in the Higher Life movement and was one of the speakers at the inaugural Keswick Convention.

Handley Moule was an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria from December 1898 until her death in January 1901, then an Honorary Chaplain to Edward VII for a couple of months until he was appointed bishop.

Handley Moule was the eighth and final son of Henry Moule, an inventor and the vicar of Fordington for over 50 years.

Handley Moule married Harriet Mary Elliott on 16 August 1881; they had two children, Mary "Tesie" Moule and Isabel Catherine Moule.

In 1907 Handley Moule published a memoir on Mary's short life entitled The School of Suffering.

Handley Moule is buried in the churchyard of St Cuthbert's Church in Durham.

Handley Moule had a considerable reputation as a preacher and persuasive speaker and expressed his emphatic support for Britain's declaration of war against Germany in August, 1914, under the heading 'THE GREAT WAR'.

Handley Moule wrote that he was old enough to remember the Crimean War and other wars, but on this occasion, it was more possible, '.

Handley Moule asked his clergy to encourage recruitment to the Army since half a million volunteers were needed.

Handley Moule was proud of the report that 218,000 miners had enlisted, half from Durham, that nearly 2,000 men from the diocesan branch of the Church of England's Men's Society were on active service, and that Bede College former students included 4 dead on the Somme, 5 wounded, one MC, one DCM and one MM.

Handley Moule supported the extension of the franchise to women, 'a grant in which I for one believe that great possibilities of good lie in waiting'.

Handley Moule was a New Testament scholar who wrote over 60 books and pamphlets.

Handley Moule published at least two volumes of poetry in his lifetime, in addition to the prizewinning pieces.

Handley Moule wrote a number of hymns, of which "Lord and Savior, True and Kind" is probably the best known.