John Cox Edghill was a British
Anglican
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priest
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and
military chaplain
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Although the term ''cha ...
. He was senior chaplain at
Aldershot
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from 1861, then followed chaplain to the forces at Chatham, Halifax (Nova Scotia), again at Aldershot, Gibraltar, and, finally, at
Portsmouth
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(1881–1885), and then
Chaplain-General
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to
Her Majesty's Forces
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(1885–1901). He was also Chaplain of the
Tower of London
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until he resigned in October 1902. Following his retirement, he held the position of Prebendary of Wells, which he held until his death.
As a noted
Tractarian
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and
Anglo-Catholic
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, he was the first choice to replace
Hibbert Binney as the bishop of
Nova Scotia
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by the Synod of the diocese, at Halifax, 6 June 1887. He declined his election in a letter to the Synod.
He was an
Honorary Chaplain to
King Edward VII
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The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and ...
.
He had a daughter,
Ella Mary Edghill
Ella Mary Edghill (born 13 November 1881 at Aldershot; died 24 January 1964 at St Mary's Hospital, Bristol) was a British translator known primarily for her translation of ''Categories (Aristotle), Categories'' which appeared in Volume 1 (1928) ...
, with Mary Nesfield
(d. 24 September 1922, Weston-super-Mare).
holds further information on the life on Edghill.
Bibliography
* ''The work of the Church in the army'' (1890)
References
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19th-century English Anglican priests
Chaplains General to the Forces
1835 births
1917 deaths
Anglo-Catholic clergy
English Anglo-Catholics
Tractarians