Fr PF posts his 123 answer, and asks if anyone can guess who is being spoken of, and what the book might be:
He was neither in, nor out of the Oxford Movement, but a most sympathetic outsider, and the letters written in 1845 contain references, fairly numerous, to the great ‘going-out’ from the City of Confusion that was in progress around him. In April we find him writing to a Mrs. Wilkinson who, it would seem, was housekeeper ar Oscott, and who had been ousted from her rooms by Miss Gladstone. Gladstone, President of the Board of Trade under Peel, found time in 1845 for more than commercial matters and published a ‘Manual of Prayers from the Liturgy’.
Any ideas?
Laodicea 
February 6, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Goldilocks?
February 6, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I guessed John Keble, but that was a shot in the dark.
February 7, 2008 at 4:22 pm
The passage itself is a bit confusing, in that it describes our man as being neither in nor out of the OM, but calls then goes on to call him an outsider anyway. Hmm.
I cannot think anyone would describe Keble as being anything other tha a fully paid-up, card-carring OMer, but I wonder – could it be Manning?
February 7, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Benedict Ambrose, in retrospect you’re probably right about Keble not fitting the bill. I thought I’d read somewhere that as the Oxford Movement progressed he was less and less involved in it… but reviewing a few sources I see that the situation doesn’t match the quotation.
February 8, 2008 at 12:19 am
Dear Baracus,
Do drop your suggestion in PF’s comment box, as it is really his riddle.
You would think in and out pretty much exhaust the possibilities, so the passage is either Zen or just confusing in general …
February 8, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Dear Berenike,
Perhaps I shall…
Benedict “I ain’t gittin’ in no plane, fool” Ambrose