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Ernest Neville Lovett, (16 February 1869 – 8 September 1951) served as the Bishop of Portsmouth in the
In retirement he lived at Meon Lea, Droxford.''Farming Festivals (Letters to the Editor) Neville Lovett, Bishop. Meon Lea, Droxford, Hampshire'',
Church of England
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from 1927 to 1936 and as the Bishop of Salisbury
The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset. The see is in the City of Salisbury where the bishop's seat ...
from 1936 to 1946.
Life
Lovett was born inTorquay
Torquay ( ) is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay. It lies south of the county town of Exeter and east-north-east of Plymouth, on the north of Tor Bay, adjoining the neighbouring town of Paig ...
on 16 February 1869 and educated at Sherborne School
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and Christ's College, Cambridge.
Lovett was ordained in 1892 and served as priest at Clifton, Wymynswold in Kent
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(now called Womenswold), Bishop's Caundle in Dorset
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and Shanklin
Shanklin () is a seaside resort and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England, located on Sandown Bay. Shanklin is the southernmost of three settlements which occupy the bay, and is close to Lake and Sandown. The sandy beach, its Old Village ...
on the Isle of Wight
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. He was Rector
Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to:
Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of Farnham, Surrey
Farnham ( /ˈfɑːnəm/) is a market town and civil parish in Surrey, England, around southwest of London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, close to the county border with Hampshire. The town is on the north branch of the River Wey, a tribu ...
from 1908 to 1912.
In 1909 Lovett produced a historical tableaux describing the history of Farnham since the Roman period which was played in the newly built church house. This representation was developed as the "Farnham Historical Episodes" performed in the Farnham Castle ground in 1910.
In 1912 Lovett wrote another historical pageant, ''The passing of the Bailiff: a play of Georgian Farnham: recalling certain incidents there in the year 1793 (circa) and the people who took part therein''. This was successfully performed and the text published.
In February 1925 he was appointed Vicar of Portsmouth and in March collated as the first Archdeacon of Portsmouth
The archdeacons in the Diocese of Portsmouth are senior ecclesiastical officers in the Church of England in south-east Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. They currently include: the archdeacon of The Meon, the archdeacon of the Isle of Wight and the ...
. When the new diocese of Portsmouth was created on 1 May 1927 he was elevated to be its first bishop. His appointment as Bishop of Portsmouth was recorded in ''The Times'' on 25 May 1927. He was 58 at the time of the appointment. He was enthroned on 4 October 1927.
In May 1936, he was appointed the Bishop of Salisbury. He announced in May 1945 that he would resign on 30 April 1946. He died aged 82 on 8 September 1951. His obituary appeared in ''The Times'' on 10 September 1951.
Until it was replaced by the Fareham Academy
Fareham Academy is a medium-sized mixed secondary school, with five tiers of entry (ages 11–16), located in St Anne's Grove in Fareham, England. Along with The Henry Cort Community College and Cams Hill School, it is one of the three main stat ...
in 2013, there was a school in Fareham, Hampshire called the Neville Lovett Community School. There is another Bishop Lovett School at Ryde
Ryde is an English seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of the Isle of Wight. The built-up area had a population of 23,999 according to the 2011 Census and an estimate of 24,847 in 2019. Its growth as a seaside resort came af ...
on the Isle of Wight.
He married Evelyn Block in 1894. They had five daughters. She died in 1937.
In retirement he lived at Meon Lea, Droxford.''Farming Festivals (Letters to the Editor) Neville Lovett, Bishop. Meon Lea, Droxford, Hampshire'', The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...
, 29 December 1948; p. 7; Issue 51265; col G
Works
The British Library lists the following publications:: *''Doorstep Papers''. (1916) *''Shadow Tales of Portsmouth Cathedral''. ith illustrations.(1936) *''Shadow tales of Portsmouth cathedral'' (1938) *''Village Faith and Village Fellowship. Six outlines for addresses, etc.'' (1945)References