Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909) was an Anglican priest

Priest

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 in the Church of England

Church of England

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Life

Luckock was born (1833 July) at Great Barr

Great Barr

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, Staffordshire

Staffordshire

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. He was educated at Marlborough College

Marlborough College

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, Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury School

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 and Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College, Cambridge

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. In 1858 he was awarded a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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, deaconed in 1860, priested in 1862 and received his M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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. Vicar of All Saints' church

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, Cambridge 1862-1862, 1865-1875.Fellow and Dean of Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...

. In 1875 he was made a Canon of Ely Cathedral, and principal of Ely Theological College. His theological standpoint was Anglo-Catholic. In 1892 he was appointed the Dean of Lichfield Cathedral until his death in 1909.

Writings

Luckock authored the following works:

• Tables of Stone (1867)
• Studies in the History of the Prayer Book (1881)
• An Appeal to the Church not to withdraw her Clergy from Universities (1882)
• Footprints of the Son of Man as traced by St. Mark (1884)
• The Bishops in the Tower
• After Death, the State of the Faithful Dead and their Relationship to the Living (1887)
• The Divine Liturgy, being The Order for Holy Communion, historically, doctrinally, and devotionally set forth (1889)
• The Intermediate State between Death and Judgment (1890)
• John Wesley's Churchmanship (1891)
• Who are Wesley's Heirs? (1892)
• The Church in Scotland (1893)
• History of Marriage, Jewish and Christian, with especial Reference to its Indissolubility and certain forbidden Degrees (1894)
• Footprints of the Apostles as traced by St. Luke in the Acts (2 vols., 1897)
• Four Qualifications for a Good Preacher (1897)
• The Characteristics of the Four Gospels (1900)
• Beautiful Life of an Ideal Priest; or, Reminiscences of Thomas Thellusson Carter (1902)
• Life and Works of Dr. Johnson (1902)
• Spiritual Difficulties in the Bible and Prayer Book: Helps to their Solution (1905)
• Eucharistic Sacrifice and Intercession for the Departed (1907)

Luckock also edited James Russell Woodford

James Russell Woodford

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's Great Commission: Twelve Addresses on the Ordinal (London, 1886) and Sermons (2 vols., 1887).