Charles Ellicott

The Right Reverend

Charles Ellicott
Bishop of Gloucester
ChurchChurch of England
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseGloucester
Orders
Ordination1848
Consecration25 March 1863
Personal details
Born
Charles John Ellicott

25 April 1819
Whitwell, Rutland, England
Died15 October 1905 (aged 86)
Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglicanism
SpouseConstantia Ann Becher
ChildrenArthur and Rosalind
Alma materStamford School;
St John's College, Cambridge
Ellicott as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward), July 1885.

Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905) was a distinguished English Christian theologian, academic and churchman. He briefly served as Dean of Exeter,[1] then Bishop of the united see of Gloucester and Bristol.

Early life and family

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Ellicott was born in Whitwell, Rutland on 25 April 1819.[2] He was educated at Stamford School and St John's College, Cambridge.[3]

He married Constantia Ann Becher at St Marylebone Parish Church, London on 31 July 1848.[4] One of their children was the composer Rosalind Ellicott.[5]

Ecclesiastical career

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Following his ordination into the Anglican ministry in 1848, he was Vicar of Pilton, Rutland and then Professor of Divinity at King's College London and Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. The chancel of St Nicholas' Church, Pilton was rebuilt in 1852 in 13th-century style.

In 1861, he was appointed Dean of Exeter. Two years later he was nominated the bishop of the See of Gloucester and Bristol on 6 February and consecrated on 25 March 1863.[6] In 1897, Bristol was removed from Diocese,[7] but he continued as Bishop of Gloucester until resigning on 27 February 1905.[8] He died in Kent on 15 October 1905, aged 86.[9]

Works

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Ellicott described the Commentary for Modern Readers which he edited as "an attempt to supply a need which has been long and seriously felt by meditative readers of God’s Holy Word".[10]

Notes

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  1. ^ The Times, Wednesday, 3 July 1861; pg. 6; Issue 23975; col A New Dean of Exeter
  2. ^ "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. ^ "Ellicott, Charles John (ELCT837CJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle... a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs. Simpkin, Marshall & Company. 1848. p. 566.
  5. ^ "Mrs Ellicott". The Times (40455). London, England: 10. 24 February 1914.
  6. ^ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 232 and 249.
  7. ^ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 232.
  8. ^ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 249.
  9. ^ The Times, Monday, 16 October 1905; pg. 5; Issue 37839; col B Death of Bishop Ellicott.
  10. ^ Ellicott, C. J., Preface to Commentary for Modern Readers, 1905 edition, accessed on 21 June 2024

Bibliography

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  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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