[4] Phelps was educated at Charterhouse[5] and Oriel College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1872, graduating B.A.[6] He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1879,[7] but not as a priest until 1896.His career was spent as a Fellow and Tutor at Oriel.He was also an Alderman of Oxford and a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress from 1905 to 1909.This article relating to the University of Oxford is a stub.