PUSEY, EDWARD BOUVERIE, known as. — Anglican theologian, b. at P. (Berkshire, southwest of Oxford) on 12 Aug. 1800, d. at the Priory of Ascot (Oxford) on 16 Sept. 1882. Second son of James Bouverie, a descendant of the ancient Huguenot family called Bouverie, in 1819 he entered Christ Church College, Oxford; in 1824 he was elected fellow of Oriel College, where he Newman (v.) Keble (v.). From 1825 to 1827, at the request of Bishop Lloyd, he attended the Universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Bonn, where he heard Ewald, Tholuck, Schleiermacher and Eichhorn; on his return to Oxford, he devoted himself to Oriental languages. In 1828 he married Maria Barker. His work Enquiry into the probable causes of rationalistic character lately predominant in the theology of Germany (2 vols., London 1828) earned him the appointment as Regius Professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church.
It was towards the end of 1834 that P. explicitly entered into relation with the Oxford Movement (v.) through his Scriptural views of Holy Baptism (Tracts for the Times, nos. 67-69, published in 1835). These tracts, for their erudition, gained great authority and were, as Church expressed it, the heavy artillery on the battlefield. It was at this time that, together with Keble, Newman and Marriott, he published A library of the Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, anterior to the division of the East and West, translated by members of the English Church (51 vols., Oxford 1838-85).
From 1840 the Oxford Movement was denominated Puseyism, to indicate that P. was its guiding spirit. In 1843, after a sermon on the Eucharist, P. was denounced by the Vice-Chancellor as a supporter of doctrines too Roman and was therefore suspended for two years from the right to preach within the University. The measure stirred all Oxford; P.’s authority increased. Newman’s conversion did not break the friendship and affection that P. bore him. It does not, however, seem that