Edward Bickersteth (priest)

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Edward Bickersteth
Portrait of Bickersteth
Born19 March 1786 (1786-03-19)
Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumberland
Died28 February 1850 (1850-03-01) (aged 63)
Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire
Occupationevangelical clergyman

Rev. Edward Bickersteth (19 March 1786 – 28 February 1850) was an English evangelical clergyman from the prominent Bickersteth family.

Life

Watton-at-Stone church where Bickersteth worked with Thomas Birks

He was born at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, the fourth son of Henry Bickersteth, a surgeon. Bickersteth attended Kirby Longsdale Grammar School and practised as a solicitor at Norwich from 1812 to 1815.

Within space of only 11 days in December 1815 he was ordained both as a deacon and priest.

Church Missionary Society (CMS). He continued to travel overseas in connection with the work of the CMS throughout his life. He was the secretary of the CMS from 1824 to 1831.[2]

On receiving the living of

Continental society in 1840 to form the Foreign Aid Society which supported evangelical Protestant ministry on the continent of Europe.[3]

Bickersteth met Lord Ashley in 1835. The Earl made a visit of several days to Watton Rectory in the summer 1836. Following this visit the pair became friends, with Bickersteth becoming one of the reformer's close advisers.[4]

He was active in promoting the

Tractarian Movement, and was one of the founders of the 1849 created Irish Church Missions, and also of the 1841 created Parker Society, societies.[3]
Bickersteth's library was sold at auction by Edmund Hodgson on 17 February 1851 (and 11 following days). It contained over 3900 lots. A copy of the catalogue is available at Cambridge University Library (shelfmark Munby.c.116(6)).

Works

His works include A Scripture Help (London, 1816), which has been translated into many European languages, and Christian Psalmody (London, 1833), a collection of over 700

Edward Henry Bickersteth, bishop of Exeter (1885–1890).[3]

Family

Bickersteth was the brother of Henry, Baron Langdale, Master of the Rolls (1836–1851), and uncle of Robert Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon (1857–1884).

His wife Sarah, whom Bickersteth married in 1812, was the eldest daughter of

Edward Henry Bickersteth (1825-1906) Bishop of Exeter was his only son and Edward Bickersteth, founder of the Cambridge Mission to Delhi and later bishop of South Tokyo, his grandson.[3]

Dean of Lichfield
, was his nephew.

References

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2345. (subscription or UK public library membership
    required)
  2. ^ The Centenaru Volume of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East 1799-1899 (PDF). London : Church Missionary Society, digital publication: Cornell University. 1902. p. 3.
  3. ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
  4. ISBN 0094686505
    .
  5. ^ Walker, Kim (2017). Building a generous foundation (PDF). Idea Magazine. p. 15. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

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