Charles Sumner (bishop)
Charles Sumner | |
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Bishop of Winchester | |
Province | Province of Canterbury |
Diocese | Diocese of Winchester |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Richard Sumner 22 November 1790 Kenilworth, England |
Died | 15 August 1874 Farnham, England | (aged 83)
Nationality | English |
Denomination | Church of England |
Alma mater | Eton College Trinity College, Cambridge |
Charles Richard Sumner
Life
Charles Sumner was a brother of John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury. Their father was Robert Sumner, and their mother was Hannah Bird, a first cousin of William Wilberforce.[1]
Sumner was educated at
Though Evangelical in his views he did not confine his patronage to that school.[3]
He and his brother were members of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848.[4]
Works
Sumner published a number of charges and sermons and The Ministerial Character of Christ Practically Considered (London, 1824). He also edited and translated
Family
Sumner married Jennie Fanny Barnabine Maunoir (23 February 1794 – 3 September 1849) and had seven children - four sons and three daughters,[5] including:
- John Maunoir Sumner (c. 1816 at Highclere – 1 April 1886), rector of North Waltham 1842–1845, and of Buriton, Hampshire, 1845, until his death.[6][7]
- Louisanna Sumner (1817–1899), who married the Rev. William Gibson, Rector of Fawley, Hampshire, and had eleven children including:
- first international match in 1871
- Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson, (1848–1924), Bishop of Gloucester
- Sophia Albertina Sumner (1823–1884), married the Rev. William Henry Ridley[9]
- George Henry Sumner (1824–1909), Bishop of Guildford, whose wife Mary founded the Mothers' Union
- Emily Sarah Frances Sumner (1832–1926), who married Robert Newman Milford (1829–1913), Rector of East Knoyle, Wiltshire and canon of Salisbury Cathedral, whose children included Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford, a publisher at Oxford University Press
References
- ^ Edward J. Davies, "Some Connections of the Birds of Warwickshire", The Genealogist, 26 (2012):58–76.
- ^ "Sumner, Charles Richard (SMNR810CR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Blain, Michael (2007). The Canterbury Association (1848–1852): A Study of Its Members' Connections (PDF). Christchurch: Project Canterbury. pp. 77–78. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ Courtney 1898, p. 167-168.
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ISBN 978-981-09-7236-3.
- ^ 'GIBSON, Rt. Rev. Alan George Sumner', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 19 Jan 2014
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sumner, Charles Richard". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 82–83. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). "Sumner, Charles Richard". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 165–168. ; Endnotes:
- A Life of Sumner was published by his son, George Henry Sumner, in 1876
- cf. Le Neve's Fasti, i. 49, ii. 257, 317, 429, iii. 21, 81
- Stapylton's Eton Lists, p. 42
- Lady Granville's Letters, i. 255
- Burke's Landed Gentry
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- Gent. Mag. 1802 ii. 1066, 1847 i. 108
- Times, 17 and 18 Aug 1874
- Guardian, 19 and 26 Aug 1874
- Pennington's Recollections, pp. 149–65
- Ashwell and Wilberforce's Bishop Wilberforce, i. 65–82, 103–4, 150, 160, 263–4, 317, 401, ii. 248, iii. 61–2
- Lucas's Bernard Barton, pp. 108–9, 161
- information from Mr. W. Aldis Wright