Name Arthur Stanton | Role Priest | |
Arthur Henry Stanton (21 June 1839 - 28 March 1913) was a British Anglo-Catholic priest in the latter decades of the 19th and early twentieth centuries.
He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford; and ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1864. His only post was as Curate at St Alban's, Holborn, 1862-1913. Stanton was an indefatigable champion of the poor, staunch champion of ritual and exuberant preacher. He attracted devoted supporters and horrified critics in equal measure. In 1877 he founded a society for postmen, the Saint Martin's League. At the end of his life he was offered, and rejected, a prebendal stall in St Paul's Cathedral.
Following his death, his funeral took place on 1 April 1913. Fellow clergy escorted his coffin as it was carried on a wheeled bier through crowded streets from his Holborn church to the London Necropolis railway station, Waterloo for transport to Brookwood Cemetery near Woking where a crowd of 1,000 had assembled for his interment.