The Reverend
William Faunce
9th President of Brown University
In office
1899–1929
Preceded byElisha Andrews
Succeeded byClarence Barbour
Personal details
Born(1859-01-15)January 15, 1859
Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJanuary 31, 1930(1930-01-31) (aged 71)
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Resting placeSwan Point Cemetery
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Alma materBrown University
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William Herbert Perry Faunce (January 15, 1859 – January 31, 1930) was an American Baptist clergyman and educator.

Biography

William Faunce was born at Worcester, Massachusetts. His father was clergyman Daniel Faunce. He graduated in 1880 at Brown University (where he then taught mathematics for a year), and at 1884 at Newton Theological Seminary, and from 1884 to 1889 was pastor of the State Street Baptist Church of Springfield, Massachusetts. From 1889 to 1899 he was pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church of New York City, New York, in 1896-97 he lectured in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and in 1898-99 he was a member of the board of resident preachers of Harvard University. In 1899 he became president of Brown University; during his administration the endowment of the university was largely increased. Faunce was a guest preacher at Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island.[1] He was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University in 1907-08 and was prominent in the work of the Religious Education Association. His writings include numerous contributions, chiefly to religious periodicals, and the volumes The Educational Ideal in the Ministry (1909) and What Does Christianity Mean? (1912).


Faunce died on January 31, 1930, in Providence, Rhode Island, at the age of 71. Later that year, Brown's student center was renamed Faunce House in his honor, at the request of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who contributed $600,000 toward its renovation.[2]

Works

  • The Educational Ideal in the Ministry (1908)
  • What Does Christianity Mean? (1912)
  • The Social Aspects of Foreign Missions (1914)
  • The New Horizon of State and Church (1918)
  • Religion and War (1918)
  • Facing Life (1928)

References

  1. ↑ A Paper Presented at the Celebration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Central Congregational Church. Central Congregational Church. March 10, 1927.
  2. ↑ Mitchell, Martha (1993). "Faunce House". Encyclopedia Brunoniana. Retrieved November 18, 2017.

Attribution

wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Faunce, William Herbert Parry". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Further reading

  • William H. P. Faunce article, in Martha Mitchell's Encyclopedia Brunoniana[1]
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  1. ↑ Mitchell, Martha (1993). "Faunce, William H. P." Encyclopedia Brunoniana. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
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