Randall Davidson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Randall Davidson

Scottish Archbishop of Canterbury

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1848

Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-May-1930

Profession: priest, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Randall Davidson

  • Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth, (7 April 1848 – 25 May 1930) was a Scottish Anglican priest, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1903 to 1928.
  • He was the longest holder of the office since the Reformation, serving for 25 years, and was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to retire. Born in Edinburgh to a Presbyterian family, Davidson was educated at Harrow School, where he became an Anglican, and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was largely untouched by the controversies between adherents of the high-church and low-church factions of the Church of England.
  • He was ordained in 1874, and after a brief spell as a curate he became chaplain and secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archibald Campbell Tait.
  • He rose through the church hierarchy, becoming Dean of Windsor (1883), Bishop of Rochester (1891) and Bishop of Winchester (1895).
  • In 1903 he succeeded Frederick Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury, and remained in office until his resignation in November 1928. Davidson was conciliatory by nature, and spent much of his time throughout his term of office striving to keep the Church together in the face of deep and sometimes acrimonious divisions between evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics.
  • Under his leadership the Church gained a measure of independence from state control, but his efforts to modernise the Book of Common Prayer were frustrated by Parliament. Cautious about bringing the Church into domestic party politics, Davidson nevertheless played a key role in the passage of the reforming Parliament Act 1911, urged moderation on both sides in the conflict over Irish independence, and led efforts to resolve the national crisis of the 1926 General Strike.
  • He was a consistent advocate of Christian unity, and worked, often closely, with other religious leaders throughout his primacy.
  • On his retirement he was made a peer; he died at his home in London at the age of 82, eighteen months later.

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