Pusey's importance as a Tractarian is, in part, reflected by the fact that the movement was frequently called "Puseyism" and by Newman's assertion that, with Tract 18, "He at once gave to us a position and a name." Pusey wrote only eight of the ninety
Tracts for the Times, but after Newman joined the Roman Catholic church in 1845, Pusey became the Oxford Movement's undisputed leader.
Pusey was born at Pusey, a small village in Berkshire, about twelve miles southwest of Oxford, on 22 August 1800 to the Honorable Philip Bouverie Pusey, the youngest son of Jacob Bouverie, first Viscount Folkestone, and Lady Lucy Sherard, the widow of Sir Thomas Cave. Philip Bouverie had changed his last name to Pusey as a condition of succession to the Pusey estate.
In 1807 Pusey was sent to a school at Mitcham in Surrey to prepare for Eton, where he went in 1812. In October 1817 he became a private student of Dr. Edward Maltby, later bishop of Durham. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1819, and in 1824 was elected fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, where he became associated with John Henry Newman and John Keble. He received his B.A.
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