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{{Short description|English clergyman}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2017}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Reverend]]
| name             = Charles William Stubbs
| honorific-suffix =  
| image            = CWStubbs.jpg
| caption          = 
| title            = [[Bishop of Truro]]
| church           = [[Church of England]]
| diocese          = [[Diocese of Truro]]
| term             = 1906–1912 (death)
| predecessor      = [[John Gott (bishop)|John Gott]]
| successor        = [[Winfrid Burrows]]
| other_post       = [[Dean of Ely]] (1893–1905)
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1845|9|3|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Liverpool]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1912|5|4|1845|9|3|df=y}}
| death_place      = [[Truro]]
| buried           = 
| nationality      = [[British people|British]]
| religion         = [[Anglicanism|Anglican]]
| residence        = 
| parents          = 
| spouse           = 
| children         = 
| profession       = 
| education        = [[Liverpool Collegiate School|Liverpool Collegiate Institution]]
| alma_mater       = [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]]
}}

'''Charles William Stubbs''' <small>[[Doctor of Divinity|DD]]</small> (3 September 1845{{snd}}4 May 1912) was an [[England|English]] [[clergyman]].

He was born in [[Liverpool]] and educated at the [[Liverpool Collegiate School|Liverpool Collegiate Institution]] and [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id=STBS864CW|name=Stubbs, Charles William}}</ref> As a clergyman he held several incumbencies, among them rector at [[Wavertree]] and [[Granborough]]. He took a great interest in the working classes and in social subjects, and was [[Political progressivism|liberal]] both in his [[Politics|political]] and in his [[Theology|theological]] opinions.<ref>{{Nuttall|inline=1|title=Stubbs, C. W.}}</ref> He was [[Dean of Ely]] 1894 to 1906 when he was appointed the fourth [[Bishop of Truro]].

His daughter Meriel married the organist and composer [[T. Tertius Noble|Thomas Tertius Noble]].<ref>[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1210&context=bulletin Trinity College, "Trinity College Bulletin, May 1953" (1953), ''Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824-present)''], Vol. L, New Series No. 4. Retrieved 17 January 2022.</ref>

== Quotations ==
*"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."

== Selected works ==
* ''God and the People: the religious creed of a democrat, being selections from the writings of [[Joseph Mazzini]]''; 2nd ed. 1896; [[G W E Russell]], ''A Pocketful of Sixpences'', London 1907, p 92
* ''Co-operation & Owenite Socialist Communities/The Land and the Labourers'' (1884)
* ''[https://archive.org/details/landlabourersfac00stubuoft The Land and the Labourers]'' (1893)
* ''[[Charles Kingsley]] and the [[Christian Social Movement]]'' (1899)
* ''Social Teachings of the [[Lord's Prayer]]'' (1900)
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006677670 ''In a Minster Garden: A Causerie''] (1902)
* Castles in the Air. And Other Poems Old and New. (Dent, 1903)
* ''[https://archive.org/details/christofenglishp00stubiala The Christ of English Poetry]'' (1906)
* ''[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeitsstor00stubuoft Cambridge and its Story]'' (1912)
* Hymns, including ''Christ was born on Christmas Night'' and ''[[The Carol of King Canute|Carol of King Cnut]]''

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Charles Stubbs}}
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* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Charles William Stubbs}}

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| title = [[Dean of Ely]]
| years = 1893–1905
| before = [[Charles Merivale]]
| after = [[Alexander Kirkpatrick]]
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| title = [[Bishop of Truro]]
| years = 1906–1912
| before = [[John Gott (bishop)|John Gott]]
| after = [[Winfrid Burrows]]
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