The Very Rev

Very Reverend

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 Philip Arthur Micklem, DD

Doctor of Divinity

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 was an eminent Anglican Priest

Priest

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 in the mid 20th century.
He was born on 5 April 1876, educated at Harrow

Harrow School

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 and Hertford College, Oxford

Hertford College, Oxford

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 and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon

Ripon College Cuddesdon

Ripon College Cuddesdon is a Church of England theological college in Cuddesdon, a village outside Oxford, England.-History:Ripon College Cuddesdon was formed from an amalgamation in 1975 of Cuddesdon College and Ripon Hall...

 in 1903. After a curacy

Curate

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 at Shere he was a Lecturer

Lecturer

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 at St Augustine's College, Canterbury

St Augustine's College, Canterbury

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. From 1910 to 1917 he was a Canon Residentiary

Canon (priest)

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 at St John's Cathedral, Brisbane

St John's Cathedral, Brisbane

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  and Principal

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 of Brisbane Theological College. He was Rector

Rector

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 of St James' Church, Sydney from then until his appointment as the second Provost

Provost (religion)

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 of Derby Cathedral

Derby Cathedral

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.

Micklem resigned in 1947 and died on 5 December 1965.

Work

• Sermon at the consecration of JO Feetham as bishop (North Queensland) in Brisbane Cathedral, April 1911
• Sermon at the opening of the Diocesan Synod in Brisbane Cathedral 1911; repeated verbatim at the opening of Sydney Synod in 1922 (text is in the Sydney Diocesan Year Book, either 1922 or 1923)
• Social unity and the teaching of the New Testament 15 July 1918.
• Principles of church organization: with special reference to the Church of England in Australia, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1921.
• Spiritual healing prepared on behalf of the Select Committee appointed by the Diocese of Sydney. 1921?
• Values of the Incarnation, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, New York: Macmillan, 1932.
• Australia's first bishop: a brief memoir of William Grant Broughton, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1936.
• Sermon in St. Andrew's Cathedral, April 1937 at a University Service