{"id":668,"date":"2015-01-01T18:50:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=668"},"modified":"2015-01-14T17:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:35:42","slug":"the-rev-francis-effingham-lawrence-and-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-rev-francis-effingham-lawrence-and-masculinity-668.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Rev. Francis Effingham Lawrence and Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

+The Rev. Francis. Effingham Lawrence is my wife\u2019s second cousin four times removed. He was a High Church Episcopal clergyman who lived from 1827-1879. He died unmarried at the age of 53. From 1839 to his death he was assistant and then rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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The Rev. Henry C Potter, the rector of Grace Church, preached<\/a> at Lawrence\u2019s funeral service on November 2, 1889. In it he made some remarks which are immediately relevant to the thesis of my book Meek or Macho?<\/em><\/p>\n

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[Dr. Lawrence] was essentially a manly man. “I am a man,” said a clergyman in my hearing not long ago upon a public platform, “even though I do wear a cassock.” Unfortunately, not all those who wear a cassock can say so as truly as could Dr. Lawrence. He never forgot that he was a Priest in the Church of God, but that consciousness did not make him effeminate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lawrence, as we shall see, was a proponent of Anglo-Catholicism and of a Catholic liturgy. The masculinity of Anglo-Catholics was frequently questioned because some were celibate and fussy about ritual. \u201cEffeminate fanatics\u201d and \u201cwomanish men\u201d were some of the milder criticisms of these \u201cnot conspicuously virile men.\u201d Punch<\/em> observed in \u201cParsons in Petticoats\u201d that \u201creverend gentlemen \u2018of extreme High Church proclivities\u2019 are very fond of dressing like ladies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The \u201ccassock\u2019 that Potter mentions was regarded by many as a sign of questionable masculinity. In France bishops required priests to wear the soutane (the cassock); men called it the jupon<\/em> (skirt), and the clerics who wore it, les enjupon\u00e9es<\/em> (the skirted ones). In 1870 the newspaper Patriote <\/em>wrote of seminarians: \u201clet them have the courage to take off their robe, that it can be seen underneath if they are men or if they are hermaphrodites.\u201d<\/p>\n

An unmarried, Catholicizing Episcopal priest like Frances Effingham Lawrence could easily have his masculinity questioned, and that is why Potter emphasized that Lawrence was masculine.<\/p>\n

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+The Rev. Francis. Effingham Lawrence is my wife\u2019s second cousin four times removed. He was a High Church Episcopal clergyman who lived from 1827-1879. He died unmarried at the age of 53. From 1839 to his death he was assistant and then rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in Manhattan. The Rev. Henry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[802,803,44,684],"tags":[805,804,1187,1124],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-lawrence-family","category-masculinity","category-meek-or-macho","tag-anglo-catholicism","tag-francis-effingham-lawrence","tag-genealogy","tag-masculinity","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}