George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer
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George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer (22 July 1805 – 7 September 1871) was an English schoolmaster and divine.
Biography
Mortimer was born on 22 July 1805 at Bishopsteignton in Devonshire. He was the eldest son of William Mortimer, a country gentleman of that place. His family was connected to other Mortimers in the Teign valley. He was educated at the Exeter grammar school and Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated 18 March 1823, and obtained an exhibition.
Thence he migrated to Queen's, where he secured a Michel exhibition, and was placed in the first class of the final classical school at
He was, successively, head-master of the
The school opened in 1837, but its prosperity had been injured by the action of the first head-master. Mortimer's administrative ability and genial manner rendered the success of the school certain. He treated with conspicuous honesty and fairness the large proportion of boys, not members of the church of England, who from various causes were found there.
In 1861, he had the unique distinction of seeing two of his scholars respectively
He died 7 September 1871, at Rose Hill, Hampton Wick, and was buried in Hampton churchyard. He had married, in 1830, to Jane, daughter of Alexander Gordon of Bishopsteignton; and by this lady, who survived him, he left a numerous family.
Besides two sermons, Mortimer published while at Newcastle a pamphlet entitled "The Immediate Abolition of Slavery compatible with the Safety and Prosperity of the Colonies".
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lupton, Joseph Hirst (1894). "Mortimer, George Ferris Whidborne". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co.