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'''Peter Goldsmith Medd''' (1829 – 25 July 1908) was an English [[Church of England|Anglican]] priest and scholar.
==Life==
Medd was educated at [[King's College London]] and at [[University College, Oxford]] (although he [[matriculation|matriculated]] at the [[University of Oxford]], aged 18 on 1 March 1848, as a member of [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]]).<ref name=Foster>{{alox2|title=Medd, Peter Goldsmith}}</ref><ref name=Times/>  He obtained his [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] degree in 1852 and was appointed as a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of University College in the same year, holding this position until 1877. He served the college as tutor, dean, librarian, and [[bursar]].<ref name=Foster/> He was a long-serving member of the Council of [[Keble College, Oxford]], having played an active part in the college's foundation.<ref name=Times>{{cite news|title=The Rev. P. G. Medd|date=28 July 1908|work=[[The Times]]|page=13}}</ref> He was an ordained priest in the [[Church of England]] and was curate of St John the Baptist, Oxford (1858 to 1867), and later rector of [[Barnes, London]] (1870 to 1876), and of [[North Cerney]], [[Gloucestershire]] (1876 onwards).<ref name=Foster/> He died in North Cerney after "a long and painful illness" on 25 July 1908.<ref name=Times/>
His publications included a book of sermons and an edition of the manuscript of the Greek and Latin Devotions of [[Lancelot Andrewes]].  His obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' described him as "an undoubted authority" upon "all liturgical matters", whose opinion was "frequently sought" by bishops in England and the United States.<ref name=Times/> His [[Bampton Lectures]] in 1882, it said, were "distinguished by great learning and an unusual wealth of illustration", although their "style and condensed character prevented them from ever becoming popular".<ref name=Times/> Apart from ecclesiastical matters, he was interested in the promotion of education of women, and was a member of the council of [[Cheltenham Ladies' College]] as the representative of Oxford University. He left a widow and eight children; one of his six sons was the architect, [[Henry Medd]].<ref name=Times/>
==Publications (selected)==
*1861: ''The Priest to the Altar, or aids to the devout celebration of Holy Communion, chiefly after the ancient English use of Sarum''. London: Henry Frowde; 2nd ed. 1869; 3rd ed. 1879; 4th ed. 1898; 5th ed. 1910
*1865: ''Liber Precum Publicarum Ecclesiae Anglicanae''; a [[William Bright (historian)|Gulielmo Bright]] et Petro Goldsmith Medd latine redditus. Londini: Rivington (the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]]'' in Latin); electronic version [http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Latin1662/BCP_Latin1662.htm here]; 3rd ed. 1877
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