page_title: Charles Kegan Paul
section_title: Life in Holy Orders
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Kegan Paul / Life in Holy Orders
caption_attribution_description: English: List of Masters in College as of 2015
context_page_description: Charles Kegan Paul was an English clergyman, publisher and author. He began his adult life as a clergyman of the Church of England, and served the Church for more than 20 years. His religious orientation moved from the orthodoxy of the Church of England to first Agnosticism, then Positivism, and finally Roman Catholicism.
context_section_description: Paul was ordained deacon in Lent of 1851, and served as curate at Great Tew, in the Oxford Dioceses for 1851 – 1852. He was ordained a priest in 1852, and served as curate of Bloxham, near Banbury, Oxfordshire for six months. After serving for a while as a tutor to pupils travelling in Germany, Paul was appointed to chaplain's post in Eton. He served as a chaplain and an assistant master for 1853 – 1862. He also served as the Master in College, the housemaster of College, the oldest boarding house at Eton, which holds seventy King's Scholars.
  He had not been a King's Scholar himself because although a nomination could be obtained without difficulty, College was at it lowest ebb, in comfort, morals, and number. Paul's aunt made a visit to Eton to check out the school before he was sent and reported that the worst ward in the worst hospital was preferable to Long Chamber, the dormitory for College. Given the condition of hospitals at the time this was a terrible indictment, and Paul was initially placed instead in Goodford's house.
  He left teaching in Eton in 1862 and was appointed vicar to Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, a living in the gift of Eton. It was not a large living, being worth less than £300 a year. He served there for twelve years. He associated with Joseph Arch's movement on behalf of agricultural labourers in Dorset. Finding himself more and more out of sympathy with the teachings of the Church of England he abandoned his living and went to London. While he was at Sturminster Marshall he completed the requirements for his M.A. degree, and was awarded the degree in 1868.
caption: Board in Eton showing the name of the Masters in College
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