Illingworth's thought underwent little development. Most of the major themes in his philosophy are introduced in his first major work, the Bampton Lectures on Personality Human and Divine (1894), and his subsequent books, Divine Immanence (1898), Reason and Revelation (1901), Christian Character (1904), The Doctrine of the Trinity (1907), Divine Transcendence (1911) and The Gospel Miracles (1915), restate, expand or refine the basic arguments with only minor modifications and shifts of emphasis. The most important of the latter are the greater stress on divine transcendence and, with the experience of the First World War, on the reality of sin and evil.

Illingworth, Agnes Louisa, ed. (1917). The Life and Work of John Richardson Illingworth. London: John Murray . Retrieved 12 October 2018.

Hoskins, Richard (1999). "Social and Transcendent: The Trinitarian Theology of John Richardson Illingworth Re‐Examined". International Journal of Systematic Theology. 1 (2): 185–202. doi: 10.1111/1463-1652.00013. ISSN 1468-2400. Scales's husband first noticed that she was having minor difficulties when she was performing in a play in 2001. She was eventually diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2014. The diagnosis did not prevent her from taking part in Great Canal Journeys, in which she and her husband spoke openly about her illness. [30] Her declining health led the couple to leave the series in 2019. [31] Interviewed for the BBC in 2023, soon after celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary, West said, with reference to Scales's dementia: "Somehow we have coped with it and Pru doesn't really think about it." [30] Honours [ edit ] From 1872 to 1883, Illingworth was a Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford, and a Tutor of Keble College, Oxford. [18] He was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1875 and as a priest in 1876. [19] From 1883 until his death, he was Rector of St Mary's Church, Longworth in the Diocese of Oxford. [18] He was also a Select Preacher of the University of Oxford from 1882 to 1891 and of the University of Cambridge from 1884 to 1895. [18] In 1894, he gave the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford; the series was titled "Personality, Human and Divine". [20] He was made an honorary canon of Christ Church, Oxford, on 6 February 1905. [21] Personal life [ edit ] Tesco to resurrect 'Dotty' concept in major Christmas TV ad campaign". www.campaignlive.co.uk . Retrieved 9 January 2021. Howse, Christopher (7 October 2018). "Great Canal Journeys series 9 episode 1 review: an emotional but unrooted glimpse of life with dementia". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.

Illingworth was born in London on 26 June 1848 [8] to an Anglo-Catholic family, [9] the second son of Edward Arthur Illingworth (1807–1883), chaplain to Middlesex House of Correction, [10] and his wife, Mary Taylor. [11] He was educated at St Paul's School, an all-boys public school in London. [12] As a child, he worshipped at St Alban's Church, Holborn, and at All Saints, Margaret Street. [12] He won both an exhibition and a scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. [13] He then studied literae humaniores ( classical studies) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and achieved first-class honours in both mods and greats, [14] graduating in 1871 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. [15] Heritage, Stuart (7 November 2016). " 'It's like glimpsing an old couple holding hands': why I adore Great Canal Journeys". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 December 2016. On 16 November 2007, Scales appeared in Children in Need, reprising her role as Sybil Fawlty, the new manager who wants to take over Hotel Babylon. John Cleese said in an interview on 8 May 2009 that the role of Sybil Fawlty was originally offered to Bridget Turner, who turned down the part, claiming "it wasn't right for her". [15] Illingworth, whose books were translated into Chinese and Japanese, was perhaps the most widely influential British representative of a nineteenth-century current of thought which sought to establish a synthesis of characteristic themes of modern idealistic philosophy and Christian theism by focusing on the concept of the person. This tradition of more or less idealistic personalism in philosophy and theology, whose British branch was represented also by A. Seth Pringle-Pattison, J. Seth, H. Rashdall, C.C. J. Webb, W. R. Sorley and others, was first developed through the impulse of F. H. Jacobi's criticism of the pantheistic, atheistic and nihilistic consequences of Enlightenment rationalism, and subsequently through the main systems of post-Kantian idealism developed in Germany in the first years of the nineteenth century by Schelling, by some mainly ‘right-wing’ Hegelians, by the so-called ‘speculative theists’ and others. Although this current seems to have already, at least indirectly, inspired S. T. Coleridge's criticism of pantheism, on which Illingworth also drew, it was mainly in R. H. Lotze's form that it reached Britain, and provided intellectual guidance and inspiration for those who saw in British absolute idealism as well as in naturalism new threats to the status of the individual person, to the truths of religion and morality, and to freedom. England, Richard (1997). Aubrey Moore and the Anglo-Catholic Assimilation of Science in Oxford (PhD thesis). Toronto: University of Toronto. hdl: 1807/11055. ISBN 978-0-612-27641-3.Great Canal Journeys: how a bittersweet boating show captured viewers' hearts". The Guardian. 21 October 2019. Great Canal Journeys: how a bittersweet boating show captured viewers' hearts". The Guardian. 21 October 2019 . Retrieved 9 January 2021. Illingworth, J.R. (1911). Divine Transcendence and Its Reflection in Religious Authority. London: Macmillan and Co. Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales [1] [2] CBE ( née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is a retired English actor. She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty ( John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers, Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution ( Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett (for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award) [3] and appeared in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), travelling on canal barges and narrowboats with her husband, fellow actor Timothy West. John Richardson Illingworth was born in London on 26 June 1848 and died in Longworth, Oxfordshire on 21 August 1915. He was the son of a prison chaplain in London, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became Fellow of Jesus College and tutor at Keble College at the same university in 1872. He was ordained priest in 1876. For reasons of health he withdrew from academic life to the rectory of Longworth, Oxfordshire, in 1883, where he remained for the rest of his life despite several offers of academic positions. He declined to give the Gifford Lectures in 1902, but received an honorary doctorate of divinity from Edinburgh University in the same year. Illingworth became a member of the Lux Mundi group and contributed two essays to Lux Mundi in 1889.

Ransom, Teresa (2005). Prunella: The Authorised Biography of Prunella Scales. London, UK: John Murray. p.237. ISBN 9780719556975. Illingworth died on 22 August 1915 in Longworth, aged 67, [24] and was buried at St Mary's Church. [25] Selected works [ edit ] Illingworth, J.R. (1889). "The Problem of Pain: Its Bearing on Faith in God". In Gore, Charles (ed.). Lux Mundi.Cantelon, John Edward (1951). John Richardson Illingworth: Philosophical Theologian (PhD thesis). Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC 54824068.

Ransom, Teresa (2005). Prunella: The Authorised Biography of Prunella Scales. London, UK: John Murray. p.27. ISBN 9780719556975.Illingworth, J.R. (1894). Personality, Human and Divine: Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1894. London: Macmillan and Co . Retrieved 12 October 2018. In June 1883, Illingworth became engaged to Agnes Louisa Gutteres. [22] They were married at St Bartholomew's Church in Nymet Rowland, Devon, on 2 August 1883. [23]