Edward Revell Eardley-Wilmot (1814–1899) was a

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clergyman. He served for a time as an army officer, in the

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Life

He was the fifth child and fourth son of

Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet (21 February 1783 – 3 February 1847) was a politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire and then as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (lat ...

and his first wife Elizabeth Emma Parry, born 11 February 1814, at

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, Warwickshire. He became a second lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery in 1830. He was admitted to

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in 1836, at age 22. He moved shortly to Trinity Hall, where he graduated B.A. in 1840, and M.A. in 1847. He was ordained deacon in 1840, and priest in 1841. Eardley-Wilmot was incumbent of St Nicholas' Church, Kenilworth from 1845 to 1855. He became an honorary

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in 1850. During this period, a new church, St John's, was built in the parish, in 1852, to a design by

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. Frederick Robert Kite, who had been Eardley-Wilmot's curate at St Nicholas's, was appointed to St John's in 1854. He was then Vicar (1855-1861) and Rector (1861-1872) of

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, appointed after the brief tenure there of William Thomson; and then in 1877 was appointed as rector of Waddingham,

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, where he held the living to 1881. Eardley-Wilmot at the end of his life resided in

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, and died there on 30 May 1899.

Works

* ''The Threatened Famine a Divine Judgment for National Unfaithfulness'' (1846) * ''True Loyalty, or, the support of the Protestant throne and Constitution the great practical lesson to be gathered from the events of the times'' (1848) * ''Truth rescued. In a letter to a Unitarian Minister'' (1848), reply to William Field of the High Street Chapel, Warwick * ''The War and Our Duties'' (1855)

Marriage and issue

Edward's first marriage was to Frances Anne Elkins, daughter of the Reverend Charles Elkins. This occurred on 4 August 1840 at

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and led to three children: # Hubert Frederick Eardley-Wilmot (19 April 1843 – 1877) # Edward Snowdon Eardley-Wilmot (13 November 1844 – 4 July 1875) # Francis Eardley-Wilmot (27 March 1846 – 23 February 1921) Frances died on 11 April 1846. His second marriage on 8 February 1848 occurred at

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and was to Emma Hutchinson Lambert. Her parents were William Lambert, formerly of the

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, and Mary Anne Denniss. This marriage led to five children: # Reverend Ernest Augustus Eardley-Wilmot (9 November 1848 – 13 December 1932); in 1877 he was vicar of

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# Robert Eardley-Wilmot (6 November 1849 – 3 December 1935) # Edith Augusta Eardley-Wilmot (26 April 1851 – 12 April 1935); married on 27 September 1877 Rev. Walter Lancelot Holland, MA, son of Rev. Charles Holland. # Louisa Caroline Eardley-Wilmot (2 October 1852 – 25 June 1924); married on 27 September 1877 Captain Vincent Rivaz, Bengal Staff Corps, son of John Theophilus Rivaz, of Watford Hall,

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. # Major Henry Eardley-Wilmot (3 March 1854 – 18 February 1933), British Indian Army officer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eardley-Wilmot, Edward Revell 1814 births 1899 deaths Edward Revell Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests Younger sons of baronets