Charles Furse (priest)
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Charles Wellington Furse,
MA, JP (born Johnson; 16 April 1821 – 2 August 1900) was Archdeacon of Westminster from 1894[1] until his death.[2]
Furse was the third son of Charles Wellington Johnson, of
Cuddesdon Theological College[7] and concurrently Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford.[8] He was the incumbent at St John's, Smith Square, Westminster from 1883 until his appointment as Archdeacon of Westminster.[9]
Marriage and issue
On 24 February 1859, Furse married Jane Diana Monsell, second daughter of John Samuel Bewley Monsell, vicar of Egham. They had ten children:[3]
- John Henry Monsell Furse (6 March 1860 – 5 April 1950), sculptor
- Charles Cyril Furse (19 June 1861 – 21 March 1862)
- Elizabeth Diana Furse (1862–1939), married John Primatt Maud, Bishop of Kensington
- Mary Theresa Furse (1863–1952), married Charles Abraham, Bishop of Derby
- Lt.-Gen. Sir William Thomas Furse (1865–1953),[10]
- Charles Wellington Furse (1868–1904), painter[11]
- Rt. Rev. Bolton Michael Furse (1870–1955), Bishop of Pretoria and Bishop of St. Albans
- Margaret Furse
- Edith Furse (1874–1960), married Cecil Lubbock, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
- John Monsell Furse (1877–1888)
Jane died in March 1877,[3] and on 7 January 1880 Furse married Gertrude Louisa Barnett, daughter of Henry Barnett MP, and had two more children:[3]
- Emily Katharine Furse (21 February 1881 – 8 July 1911)
- Herbert Reynolds Furse (31 January 1887 – 1956)
References
- ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Dec 12, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 34445
- ^ "Archdeacon Furse." The Times (London, England), Friday, Aug 03, 1900; pg. 4; Issue 36211
- ^ a b c d Bernard Burke A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of ..., Volume 1, (1894), p. 524, at Google Books
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Geograph
- ^ 'CONSECRATION of the BISHOP of OXFORD' The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, January 26, 1870; pg. 5; Issue 29995
- ^ 'Appointments' The Morning Post (London, England), Saturday, December 27, 1873; pg. 5; Issue 31667
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p497: London, Horace Cox, 1898
- ^ ‘FURSE, Ven. Charles Wellington’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 15 Oct 2017
- ^ "Obituary: Lt.-Gen. Sir William Furse". The Times. 1 June 1953. p. 8.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33299. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
