Frederic Percy Harton (1889–1958) served as Dean of Wells (1951–1958). He is known essentially for a frequently republished guide to the spiritual life addressed to an Anglican readership but drawing significantly on seventeenth and eighteenth century French and Italian Catholic works of spiritual direction.
Source:
Gordon Mursell: English Spirituality:from 1700 to the present day,2001.
V.D.Davies, Moral and ascetical components in the theologies of F. P. Harton and Kenneth Leech M.A.thesis (not consulted), General Theological Seminary, N. Y. 1982.
Works:
Notes on Mental Prayer, 1930
The Elements of the Spiritual Life: A Study in Ascetical Theology, S.P.C.K., 1932
Life in Christ, 1937
Holy living and holy dying, 1937
Essential Principles of Catholicism, edd E. Graham et al. S.P.C.K. & Church Literature Association, 1936 (Section 5)
The Faith that Abides, 1939
Articles on Maximus the Confessor, in Church Quarterly Review, 1958
The Mystery of the Cross,1940
The pictorial history of Wells Cathedral, Pitkin, 1960