Educated at St. Catherine's Coll­ege, Cam­bridge (BA 1864), Car­pen­ter was or­dained by Arch­bi­shop Long­ley. He cul­ti­vat­ed roy­al­ty, be­com­ing chap­lain to Queen Vic­tor­ia and Clerk to the Clo­set of Ed­ward VII and George V. He served as Bi­shop of Ri­pon from 1884 -1911. Among other things, he ran his own Cler­gy School where he gave tu­i­tion in preach­ing; among his pu­pils was Stud­dert-Ken­ne­dy. Car­pen­ter ad­vo­cat­ed a na­tion­al sys­tem for old age pen­sions long be­fore it be­came prac­ti­cal pol­i­tics, and found­ed the Vic­tor­ia Fund to pro­vide pen­sions for the cler­gy. His works in­clude:

• Thoughts on Pray­er (Lon­don, 1871)
• Narcissus, a Tale of Early Christ­ian Times, 1879
• The Witness of the Heart to Christ, 1879
• The Hulsean Lectures for 1878
• District Visitor’s Com­pan­ion, 1881
• My Bi­ble, 1884
• Nature and Man, 1888
• Permanent Elements of Re­li­gion (Bamp­ton Lec­tures for 1887, 1889)
• The Burning Bush, 1893
• Twilight Dreams, 1893
• Lectures on Preaching, 1895
• Thoughts on Reunion, 1895
• Religious Spirit in the Poets, 1900
• Popular History of the Church of Eng­land, 1900
• Witness to the In­flu­ence of Christ (No­ble Lec­tures for 1904; 1905)

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Hymns

1. Before Thy Throne, O God, We Kneel
2. O God, the Strength of Those Who War