Frederic Harton

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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.

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

Sources

Gordon Mursell: English Spirituality:from 1700 to the Present Day, Westminster John Knox Press (2001) ISBN 0-664-22505-5
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.

v t e Deans of Wells

High Medieval	Ivo Richard de Spakeston Alexander Leonius Ralph of Lechlade Peter of Chichester William of Merton John Saracenus Giles of Bridport Edward of Cnoll Thomas Bytton William Burnell Walter Haselshaw

Late Medieval	Henry Husee John Godelee Richard of Bury Wibert of Littleton Walter of London Thomas Fastolf John of Carleton Stephen Penpel John Fordham Thomas Thebaud Henry Beaufort Nicholas Slake Thomas Tuttebury Richard Courtenay Walter Medeford John Stafford John Forest Nicholas Carent William Witham John Gunthorpe

Early modern	William Cosyn Thomas Wynter Richard Woleman Thomas Cromwell William Fitzjames John Goodman William Turner Robert Weston Valentine Dale John Herbert Benjamin Heydon Richard Meredith Ralph Barlow George Warburton Walter Ralegh Robert Creighton Ralph Bathurst William Grahme Matthew Brailsford Isaac Maddox John Harris Samuel Creswicke Lord Francis Seymour

Late modern	George Lukin Hon Henry Ryder Edmund Goodenough Richard Jenkyns George Johnson Edward Plumptre Thomas Jex-Blake Armitage Robinson Richard Malden Frederic Harton Christopher Woodforde Irven Edwards Patrick Mitchell Richard Lewis John Clarke

Persondata
Name	Harton, Frederic
Alternative names
Short description	English Theologian
Date of birth	1889
Place of birth
Date of death	1958
Place of death

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