Charles Longley

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Anglican

Charles Thomas Longley (28 July 1794 – 27 October 1868)[1] was a bishop in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Ripon, Bishop of Durham, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until his death.

Life

He was born at

Recorder of Rochester,[2] and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1812, graduating B.A. 1815 (M.A. 1818), B.D. and D.D. 1829.[3]

At Christ Church, Longley was reader in Greek 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8, and proctor 1827.

Cowley, Oxford, in 1823. In 1827, he received the rectory of West Tytherley, Hampshire, and two years later he was elected headmaster of Harrow School. He held this office until 1836, when he was consecrated bishop of the new see of Ripon. In 1856 he became Bishop of Durham, and in 1860 he became Archbishop of York
.

In 1862, he succeeded

John William Colenso
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

Pan-Anglican conference of British, colonial and foreign bishops. His published works included numerous sermons and addresses. He died at Addington Park, near Croydon
.

Like Sumner, he was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848.[4]

Family

A photograph of Charles Thomas Longley by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).

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.[5] They had seven children, three sons and four daughters,[6] of whom:

1.

Chief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales.[7] He married Diana Eliza Davenport (fl. 1905), daughter of John Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire, on 17 September 1861.[6]

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

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,

Packington Hall, Staffordshire, 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.[9]

Charles Thomas Longley, by George Richmond, c. 1862

7. Rosamond Esther Harriett Longley (died 1936) married, 1870, Cecil Thomas Parker (1845–1931), 2nd son of

David Pollock, 2nd Viscount Hanworth (1916–1996) and is mother of the present peer.[11]

Notes

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16987. Retrieved 6 June 2008. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ "Obituary: Charles Thomas Longley, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury" The New York Times, 29 October 1868, p. 4, (citation only). Retrieved 3 December 2008
  3. ^
    Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
    .
  4. ^ Blain, Rev. Michael (2007). The Canterbury Association (1848–1852): A Study of Its Members' Connections (PDF). Christchurch: Project Canterbury. pp. 51–52. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  5. ^ Leslie Morgan. "A Victorian Curate of Ash and his Brother-in-law's Letter" Archived 4 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine St Peter and St Paul, Ash Church Website. Portarlington is misspelled Porterlington. Retrieved 3 December 2008
  6. ^
    ISBN 9780806314327
    . Originally published: London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1905. All details below are from this source, unless cited otherwise.
  7. ^ Memorial wall tablet in the church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Mary, Addington, Surrey
  8. ^ Annual Register. J. & F.H. Rivington. 1862. p. 2.
  9. ISBN 978-0-8063-1434-1.; and Raineval 1994
    , p. 287. The date of Caroline Georgina's marriage is not given by Ruvigny, nor is her birthdate.
  10. ^ Raineval 1994, p. 287. Also see Conqueror – William 165 and Conqueror – William 176. Retrieved 3 December 2008
  11. ^ Conqueror – William 50 to 52. Retrieved 3 December 2008

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Church of England titles
New diocese Bishop of Ripon
1836–1856 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Durham
1856–1860 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Archbishop of York
1860–1862 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Archbishop of Canterbury
1862–1868 		Succeeded by
Academic offices
Preceded by Head Master of Harrow School
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