James Elphinstone Roe
Journalist, Deceased Person
1818 – 1897
Who was James Elphinstone Roe?
James Elphinstone Roe was a convict transported to Western Australia. After serving his sentence he became one of the colony's ex-convict school teachers. Through his agitation for education reform, he played an important role in "shaping the education system and political policies in the colony". He later distinguished himself as a journalist.
James Elphinstone Roe was born in Kirkby on Bain, Lincolnshire, and baptised there on 18 October 1818. His father was Rev. Thomas Roe, the town's rector, and his mother was Catherine Sarah née Elphinstone. Nothing is known of his childhood, but in June 1836 he began studies at Worcester College, Oxford. During his university years he was a member of the Oxford Movement, an organisation that aimed to return the Church of England to its Catholic roots, and which later collapsed after one of its leaders renounced the Church of England and converted to Catholicism. Although Roe himself remained an Anglican throughout his life, he was often sympathetic to and supportive of Catholic causes, and had a number of Catholic friends.
Roe graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1841, and is thought to have taken his holy orders shortly afterwards.
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- Born
- Oct 18, 1818
Kirkby on Bain - Profession
- Education
- Worcester College, Oxford
- Died
- May 1, 1897
Western Australia
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on July 23, 2013
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