Death in Holy Orders [SEP] series
Death in Holy Orders
Death in Holy Orders is a 2001 detective novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James.
Setting.
The novel is mainly set in and around an Anglo-Catholic theological college, Saint Anselm's, on the windswept coast of East Anglia. It provides an insight into the structure of the Church of England and its training of students, known as ordinands, for religious ministry.
Plot.
Dalgliesh visits Saint Anselm's in a semi-official capacity to follow up the
Charles Benjamin Tayler
Charles Benjamin Tayler (1797–1875) was a Church of England clergyman and writer for the young.
The son of John Tayler, he was born at Leytonstone, Essex, 16 Sep. 1797 and baptised at St Botolph Bishopsgate 11 Nov. following. He was educated at Guildford under the Rev. William Hodgson Cole, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a fellow commoner on 23 Oct. 1815, graduating B.A. in 1819 and M.A. in 1822.
Taking holy orders, he was licensed to a curacy at Hadleigh