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Lord Arthur Charles Hervey (20 August 1808 – 9 June 1894) was an English bishop who served as
Bishop of Bath and Wells
The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England.
The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of D ...
from 1869 to 1894. He was usually known by his aristocratic
courtesy title, "Lord", rather than the
style
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* Architectural style, the features that make a building or structure historically identifiable
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appropriate to a bishop, the
Right Reverend.
Background and education
Hervey was the fourth son of
Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol, by Elizabeth Albana Upton, daughter of
Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown. His paternal grandfather was
Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol
Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, (1 August 1730 – 8 July 1803), was an 18th-century Anglican prelate.
Elected Bishop of Cloyne in 1767 and translated to the see of Derry in 1768, Hervey served as Lord Bishop of Derry until ...
, the Bishop of Derry. He was born at his father's London house, 6
St James's Square
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, on 20 August 1808. From 1817 to 1822, he lived abroad with his parents, chiefly in Paris, and was taught by a private tutor. He entered
Eton College
Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, ...
in 1822 and remained there until 1826. He entered
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, in 1827, and after a residence of two years and a half, obtained a first class in the classical
tripos
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and graduated B.A. in 1830.
Career
Having been ordained both deacon and priest in October 1832, Hervey was instituted in November to the small family living of Ickworth-cum-Chedburgh,
Suffolk, with which he was associated until 1869.
Chedburgh, being in 1844 separated from
Ickworth
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and joined to Horningsheath or
Horringer
Horringer is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It lies on the A143 about two miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds. The population in 2011 was 1055.
Heritage
Horringer was earlier known as H ...
, he also became curate of Horringer until in 1856 he was instituted to the rectory which he held with Ickworth. He was active in clerical work, took a leading part in the organisation of educational institutions in
Bury St. Edmunds
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such as the
Bury and West Suffolk Archaeological Institute of which he was the President.
He seems to have been the first to propose a system of university extension. In 1862 he was appointed
archdeacon of Sudbury
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The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy in its five rural deaneries; Clare, Ixworth, Lavenham, Sudbury and Thingoe. ...
.
On the resignation of
Lord Auckland
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,
Bishop of Bath and Wells
The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England.
The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of D ...
, in 1869, he was offered the bishopric on the recommendation of
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-conse ...
, and was consecrated on 21 December. He remained in the post until his death in 1894. He was a moderate
evangelical
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.
Works
Hervey was a good linguist, and wrote some antiquarian papers. He was one of the committee of revisers of the
Authorised Version
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of the Old Testament, which sat 1870–1884, and in 1885 received the honorary degree of D.D. from the university of Oxford in recognition of his services. He contributed largely to
William Smith's ''Dictionary of the Bible'' and to the ''
Speaker's Commentary''. Besides sermons and lectures, charges and pamphlets, he was author of ''The Genealogies of our Lord'' (1853).
Family
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Hervey married Patience Singleton, daughter of John Singleton (born Fowke), of
Hacely, Hampshire, and
Mell, County Louth, on 30 July 1839. They had twelve children, of whom five sons and three daughters survived him. He died in Hackwood, near
Basingstoke, the house of his son-in-law, C. Hoare, on 9 June 1894 in his eighty-sixth year and was buried in
Wells.
In the 1870s, one of Hervey's daughters trained the
mute swans in the five sided
moat at the
Bishops Palace to ring
bells, by pulling strings, to beg for food.
Notes
External links
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Project Canterbury
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1808 births
1894 deaths
Bishops of Bath and Wells
Archdeacons of Sudbury
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Younger sons of marquesses
Arthur
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Burials at Wells Cathedral
People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury