Lancelot Phelps (priest)
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Lancelot Ridley Phelps[1] (b Sevenoaks 3 November 1853; d Oxford 16 December 1936)[2] was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford[3] from 1914 to 1930.[4]
Phelps was educated at Charterhouse[5] and Oriel College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1872, graduating B.A. in 1877.[6] He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1879,[7] but not as a priest until 1896. His career was spent as a Fellow and Tutor at Oriel. He was also an Alderman of Oxford and a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress from 1905 to 1909.[8]
