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Cowley Father|ˈkaʊlɪ|
[Name of a village near Oxford (now a suburb) + father n. 6 b.]
A priest of the Anglican order of the Society of Mission Priests of St. John the Evangelist, founded in Oxford in 1865 by the Rev. R. M. Benson (1824–1915).
1902Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 195/1 The Society of Mission Priests of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was founded..at Cowley St John. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. ix. 681 He had indeed heard Pallant preach at the church of the Cowley Fathers. 1953E. Lutyens Blessed Girl ii. 23 Edward became a Cowley Father and died as a missionary in India. |