Charles Thomas Longley (28 July 1794 – 27 October 1868) was a bishop in the
Church of England
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. He served as
Bishop of Ripon
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,
Bishop of Durham
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,
Archbishop of York
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and
Archbishop of Canterbury
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from 1862 until his death.
Life
He was born at
Rochester, Kent
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, the fifth son of the late John Longley,
Recorder
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of Rochester, and educated at
Westminster School
(God Gives the Increase)
, established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560
, type = Public school Independent day and boarding school
, religion = Church of England
, head_label = Hea ...
and
Christ Church, Oxford
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, where he matriculated in 1812, graduating
B.A.
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1815 (
M.A.
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1818),
B.D. &
D.D.
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In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ra ...
1829.
At Christ Church, Longley was reader in Greek 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8, and proctor 1827.
He was ordained in 1818, and was appointed vicar of
Cowley, Oxford
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, in 1823. In 1827, he received the rectory of
West Tytherley
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...
,
Hampshire
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, and two years later he was elected headmaster of
Harrow School
(The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God)
, established = (Royal Charter)
, closed =
, type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school
, religion = Church of E ...
. He held this office until 1836, when he was consecrated bishop of the new see of
Ripon
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. In 1856 he became
Bishop of Durham
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, and in 1860 he became
Archbishop of York
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.
In 1862, he succeeded
John Bird Sumner
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Early life
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as Archbishop of Canterbury. Soon afterwards the questions connected with the deposition of
John William Colenso
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were referred to Longley but, while regarding Colenso's opinions as heretical and his deposition as justifiable, he refused to pronounce upon the legal difficulties of the case.
The chief event of his primacy was the meeting at
Lambeth
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, in 1867, of the first
Pan-Anglican conference of British, colonial and foreign bishops. His published works included numerous sermons and addresses. He died at
Addington Park
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History
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, near
Croydon
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.
Like Sumner, he was a member of the
Canterbury Association
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from 27 March 1848.
Family
As Headmaster of Harrow School, he married
Caroline Sophia Parnell on 15 December 1831. Her brother George Damer Parnell was the curate of Ash, 1859–1861. Parnell was the daughter of
Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton
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. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters,
[ Originally published: London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1905. All details below are from this source, unless cited otherwise.] of whom:
1.
Henry Longley (28 November 1833 – 25 December 1899), served as
Chief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales. He married Diana Eliza Davenport (
fl. 1905), daughter of John Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire, on 17 September 1861.
2. George Longley, born 8 March 1835 at Harrow, Middlesex.
3. Mary Henrietta Longley (born 2 May 1837 in Ramsgate, Kent) married – on 9 December 1858 – George Winfield Bourke (died 9 October 1903), Honorary Chaplain to the Monarch, and son of
Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo
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. Their only child was
Walter Longley Bourke, 8th Earl of Mayo (28 November 1859 – 1939); from 1891 to 1903, he was a Trustee of the
Bridgewater Estates. Walter had married in 1887, and had four sons and two daughters, by 1905.
Walter's second son was
Ulick Henry Bourke, 9th Earl of Mayo (1890–1962), and third son Bryan Longley Bourke (1897–1961) was father of
Terence Bourke, 10th Earl of Mayo (1929–2006), himself father of
the present Earl.
4. Frances Elizabeth Longley (born 3 July 1839)
5. Arthur Longley (born 1841 in Ripon, Yorkshire)
6. Caroline Georgina Longley (died 30 October 1867) married, on 6 November 1862, (as his 1st wife) Edward
Levett
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(18 December 1832 – 28 December 1899), major in the
10th Royal Hussars, of
Wychnor Park and
Packington Hall
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,
Staffordshire
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, third son of John Levett and his wife Sophia Kennedy, granddaughter of
Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassilis. They had two daughters, both of whom married and had children.
![Charles Thomas Longley by George Richmond](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Charles_Thomas_Longley_by_George_Richmond.jpg)
7. Rosamond Esther Harriett Longley (died 1936) married, 1870, Cecil Thomas Parker (1845–1931), 2nd son of
Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield by his 2nd wife Mary Frances Grosvenor, a sister of
Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
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, and had four sons and two daughters. Their elder daughter Caroline Beatrix Parker (1875–1961) married, 1895,
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman
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, of Leigh, Shropshire in 1929, PC (1864–1935), only child of John Orlando Bridgeman, Rector of Weston-under-Lizard (himself 3rd and youngest son of
George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford
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) by his wife Marianne Caroline Clive, daughter of William Clive, and left children, including the present Viscount. The fourth and youngest son
Wilfrid Parker (1883–1966) became
Bishop of Pretoria
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History
The diocese originally covered the whole of the South African Republic, which later became the T ...
, South Africa. A granddaughter (by the 3rd son Geoffrey) Isolda Rosamond Parker (1918–2014) married, 1940,
David Pollock, 2nd Viscount Hanworth (1916–1996) and is mother of the present peer.
Conqueror – William 50 to 52
Retrieved 3 December 2008
Notes
References
Archbishop of Canterbury: Better Bishops for the sake of a better Church (Archived)
"Obituary: Charles Thomas Longley, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury"
''The New York Times'', 29 October 1868, p. 4,
Attribution
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External links
Bibliographic directory
from Project Canterbury Project Canterbury (sometimes abbreviated as PC) is an online archive of material related to the history of Anglicanism. It was founded by Richard Mammana, Jr. in 1999 with a grant from Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold, and is ho ...
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1868 deaths
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