Ernest Blackie

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Ernest Blackie
Cosmo Lang (Canterbury)
Personal details
Born(1867-08-19)19 August 1867
Died5 March 1946(1946-03-05) (aged 78)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
Alma materUniversity of London

Ernest Morell Blackie (19 August 1867 – 5 March 1943)

Anglican
bishop in the 20th century.

Early life and ministry

Blackie was born in

Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, at Gloucester Cathedral,[3] he was a curate at St Mark's Gloucester and then a minor canon at Rochester Cathedral until 1900. He later became the rector of Limpsfield and then St Paul's York Place, Edinburgh before becoming the vicar of St John the Baptist Church, Windsor and an Honorary Chaplain to the King
.

Leicester and Rochester

From his installation on 24 June 1921

Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey)[6] and served five years as Bishop of Grantham. In 1935, he was then translated (within the diocese) as Bishop of Grimsby[7][8] (he had taken his new See by the time of the new Grantham's consecration, 18 October 1935)[9] before his final appointment as Dean of Rochester,[10] a position he held from his installation on 15 December 1937[11]
until his death in 1943.

Marriage and family

In 1903 Blackie married Caroline Stewart, daughter of James Haldane Stewart Jr. and Emily Leveson-Gower of

.

Blackie and his wife had five surviving children:

References

  1. ^ a b "Blackie, Ernest Morell". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ 1881 Census
  3. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 9 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  4. . Retrieved 9 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  5. . Retrieved 9 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  6. . Retrieved 9 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. . Retrieved 9 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  8. ^ "Bishops Suffragan Appointments to Grimsby and Grantham", The Times, 25 July 1935
  9. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 9 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  10. ^ Ecclesiastical News. New Dean of Rochester The Times Thursday, 19 August 1943; p. 7; Issue 49628; col B
  11. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 9 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
John Hine
Bishop of Grantham
1930–1935
Succeeded by
New title Bishop of Grimsby
1935–1937
Preceded by Dean of Rochester
1937–1943
Succeeded by