page_title: George Rundle Prynne
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: George Rundle Prynne / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: St Peter's parish church, Wyndham Square, Plymouth, seen from the west
context_page_description: George Rundle Prynne was an English Anglo-Catholic cleric in south-west England, known for his Tractarian and ritualist views. He is also notable as a hymn-writer: his "Jesu, Meek and Gentle" ranked with "Jesus Loves Me" and "Near the Cross" for American Protestants in the later 19th century".
context_section_description: In 1860 Prynne employed Joseph Leycester Lyne, in an unpaid curacy, to which Lyne was ordained deacon. Lyne then moved on to St George in the East and Charles Lowder in London. That year Prynne joined the Society of the Holy Cross, and in 1861 the English Church Union 1862, becoming vice-president of the Union in 1901.
  Meanwhile, local opposition diminished. Prynne's church was rebuilt, and the new building consecrated in 1882, without disturbance. Although he remained a Tractarian to the end, he was chosen with Prebendary Sadler proctor in convocation for the clergy of the Exeter diocese from 1885 to 1892, and despite their divergence of opinion he was on friendly terms with his diocesans, Frederick Temple and Edward Bickersteth. Unlike some other ritualists, he submitted to the Lambeth judgment of 1899, by the archbishops William Dalrymple Maclagan and William Temple, that condemned the liturgical use of incense.
  Prynne died at his vicarage after a short illness on 25 March 1903, and was buried at Plympton St Mary.
caption: St Peter the Apostle, Plymouth, photograph from 2010
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