Charles Scott Luxmoore (1794–1854) was an Anglican

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. The son of

John Luxmoore John Luxmoore or Luxmore (1766–1830) was an English bishop of three sees. Life The son of John Luxmoore of Okehampton, Devon, he was born there. He was educated at Ottery St. Mary school and at Eton College, going as a scholar in 1775 to King' ...

, a

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, Charles Scott Luxmoore was educated at

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and St John's College, Cambridge. From 1826 to 1854 he was

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. He married on 10 September 1829, Katherine, daughter of Rev. Sir John Nicholl, Dean of the Arches, of Merthyr Mawr, Glamorgan. They had one son, John Nicholl Luxmoore (1830-1849) who died young following a horse riding accident. Charles died at Cradley, Herefordshire on 27 April 1854 and he is buried at St Asaph Cathedral.

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, Tuesday, 2 May 1854; pg. 1; Issue 21730; col A ''Deaths'' The ''Clerical Journal'' marked his death as that of "another gigantic pluralist":

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