Rev Valentine Grantham Faithfull

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(25 June 1820 – 30 May 1894) was an English

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and a

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er who played for

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

in 1841. He was born at Hatfield,

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and died at

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Life

The grave of Valentine Faithfull, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

He was born on 25 June 1820 the son of Rev Francis Joseph Faithfull in

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. His older brother was James Faithfull. Faithfull was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

and

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus"), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century through to the early 19th century ...

. His single game of first-class cricket came in 1841 when he scored 0 and 1 playing as a lower-order batsman for Cambridge against the

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; the full scorecard is not available for this match, so it is not known if he bowled, and nor is his batting style known. Faithfull was ordained as a

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clergyman after graduation. He served as a curate at Hatfield, where his father was

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, and then from 1848 until his death in 1894 he held posts in Edinburgh, being the incumbent at the Trinity Episcopal Church,

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, from 1851 to 1888 under Rev David Drummond. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1862, his proposer being Rev. James Hodson. He resigned in 1863. He died at home at 23 Royal Circus in

. He is buried in

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on the west side of the city. The recumbent stone lies east of the large obelisk to the singer, John Wilson (at one of the path junctions). He married Frances Maria Farquharson in August 1850, daughter of Major-General James Alexander Farquharson of Oakley, Fife, Governor of

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in the

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, son of John Farquharson, an officer who was one of the Farquharsons of Rochalzie otherwise Rochallie, in Perthshire. Francis Maria's mother was Rebecca, eldest daughter of Sir George Colquhoun Bart., last of the Colquhouns of Tillyquhoun (another family of

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), by his wife Christian Macdonald of the Macdonalds of Rinettan. Faithfull was a Freemason at the

Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No. 1 The Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel), No.1, is a Masonic Lodge in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is designated number 1 on the Roll (list) of lodges of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, and as it possesses the oldest existing minute of any masonic lodge ...

.History of the Lodge of Edinburgh (Marys Chapel) no.1 , by David Murray Lyon

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Faithfull, Valentine 1820 births 1894 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests English Freemasons