ABSTRACT
The Society’s senior leading figures, by virtue of both age and public distinction, were the President, the Venerable Thomas Thorp; and the Revd William Hodge Mill, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. Dr Mill’s role in the Cambridge Camden Society and the Ecclesiological late Cambridge Camden Society (ECCS) was one of advisor and counsellor, very much ‘behind the scenes’, but very substantial in influence. Archdeacon Thorp’s active participation in the daily workings of the Cambridge Camden Society dropped markedly after it reorganized as the Ecclesiological late Cambridge Camden Society in 1845 and made London its new centre. Dr Mill’s role in the Cambridge Camden Society and the ECCS was one of advisor and counsellor, very much ‘behind the scenes’, but very substantial in influence. Perhaps Beresford Hope’s greatest contribution to the church revival was made in his patronage of model institutions.
