(1800-1882) Scholar and theologian, born at Pusey, Berks, educated at Eton and Oxford, belonged to the family of Lord Folkstone, whose name was Bouverie, his father assuming that of Pusey on inheriting certain estates. After studying in Germany, he became in 1828 Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford. is first important work was an Essay on the Causes of Rationalism in German Theology, and the arrest of similar tendencies in England became one of the leading objects of his life. He was one of the chief leaders of the Tractarian movement, and contributed tracts on Baptism and on Fasting. In consequence of a sermon on the Eucharist, he was in 1843 suspended from the office of University. Preacher which he then held. Later writings related to Confession and The Doctrine of the Real Presence, and in 1865 he issued an Eirenicon in support of union with the Church of Rome. He was prominent in all movements and controversies affecting the University, and was foremost among the prosecutors of Jowett (q.v.). Among his other literary labours are commentaries on Daniel and the minor Prophets, a treatise on Everlasting Punishment, and a Catalogue of the Arabic manuscript in the Bodleian Library.