Revd T. Pelham Dale, Rector of St Vedast Foster Lane, in the City of London, 1880 Revd Richard William Enraght, Rector of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, West Midlands, 1880 Revd James Bell Cox, Vicar of St Margaret's, Liverpool Revd Arthur Tooth, Vicar of St James's, Hatcham, 1877 These clergy were supported financially by George Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow, who donated considerable sums to their defence and compensation. Prosecutions ended when a Royal Commission in 1906 recognised the legitimacy of pluralism in worship, but the Act remained in force for 91 years until it was repealed on 1 March 1965 by the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963. Territorial extent The Act extended to England, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. See also Anglican eucharistic theology References Citations Sources Further reading , a standard scholarly history of the act. Graber, Gary W. Ritual Legislation in the Victorian Church of England: Antecedents and Passage of the Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (1993) online review; a standard scholarly history of the act. Janes, Dominic. "The 'Modern Martyrdom' of Anglo-Catholics in Victorian England." Journal of Religion and Society 13 (2011) online. Janes, Dominic. Victorian Reformation: The Fight over Idolatry in the Church of England, 1840-1860 (Oxford University Press, 2009). Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: The 19th century in Europe volume 2 (1959) p. 270-279. Reed, John Shelton. Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism (London: Tufton Books, 1998). Roberts, Andrew. Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999) pp. 135–138. Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline (1906) Report of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline Shannon, Richard. The Age of Disraeli, 1868-1881: The Rise of Tory Democracy (1992) pp. 199–210. 1874 in Christianity 1874 in British law Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning England Anglicanism Anglo-Catholicism Christianity and law in the 19th century History of the Church of England Law about religion in the United Kingdom United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1874