Hugh Maudslay Hordern (28 September 1868 – 25 March 1949) was the sixth

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Biography

He was the great-grandson of the inventor Henry Maudslay and one of the founders of the Maudslay Society.According to Burke’s Landed Gentry (1952) He was born on 28 September 1868 and grew up at Throwley House, Faversham, Kent. He was educated at

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and

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. He married Edith Augusta Sandeman, daughter of John Glas Sandeman. He began his career with a

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, and from 1894 to 1910, was Rector of Singleton. ho Was Who, A&C BlackHe was Vucar of St Nicholas, Brighton, from 1910 to 1924, also acting as a chaplain to the Territorial Army from June 1914 to 1922. He was attached to the 6th (Cyclists) Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. ‘Most of my work was with them and in hospitals in Brighton during the War’. He was appointed to the

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in 1929, serving eventually for seventeen years.The Times, Thursday, Jul 18, 1946; pg. 6; Issue 50506; col G Ecclesiastical News- Bishop of Lewes to retire He died in post on 25 March 1949. His grandson

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was

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(MP) for

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from 1964 to 1997. Other members of his family who were also involved in the First World War were his brothers: Boer War and First World War general Gwyn Venables Hordern, of Baughurst House, Ramsdell, Hampshire, (also an accomplished cricketer who scored a half century, in 1896, for the KRRC against a Free Foresters Team which included C. J. Kortright, whom Wisden described that year as the fastest bowler in the history of the game); captain Lionel Herbert Hordern, of Throwley House, Faversham, Kent; and Radcliffe Hordern of Warrenton, Virginia, whose son Herbert Radcliffe Hordern, served in the Irish Guards and died of wounds from the First World War. His son captain Charles Hubert Hordern, and nephew, general Herle Maudslay Hordern also fought in the First World War.

References

1868 births 1949 deaths People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Bishops of Lewes Archdeacons of Lewes World War I chaplains Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers 20th-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub