Hugh Todd (author)
Hugh Todd (c.1657–1728) was an English cleric and academic, known also as an antiquarian and author.
Life
Born at
In 1684 Todd became vicar of
In 1702 William Nicolson became bishop of Carlisle. From early in his episcopate he clashed with Todd, who was uncompromising. After several minor disputes, in one of which Todd made his curate a churchwarden, Todd, with the dean Francis Atterbury, undertook to defend the chapter against the bishop, who exhibited articles of inquiry against them. Todd denied the right of visitation to the bishop, declaring that it belonged to the crown. For this conduct he was first suspended and then excommunicated by Nicolson, but continued to officiate in his parish as priest, ignoring the bishop's action.[1]
The bishops were alarmed by Todd's rejection of episcopal authority, and a bill was passed in parliament in 1708 as the Cathedral Act, to establish their rights of visitation more firmly. After its passage the sentence of excommunication on Todd was removed. The following day Sir James Montague, a Member of Parliament for Carlisle, held a dinner for Nicolson and Todd, at which they were reconciled.[1][3]
Todd died in Penrith on 6 October 1728.[1]
Works
Todd contributed "The Description of Sweden" to
Todd published a number of poems. He also assisted John Walker in compiling his Sufferings of the Clergy. He left manuscripts, including: Notitia Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Carliolensis, et Notitia Prioratus de Wedderhal, 1688, which was edited for the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archæological Society by Richard Saul Ferguson (Tract Ser. No. 6, Kendal, 1892); and An Account of the City and Diocese of Carlisle, 1689, also edited by Ferguson for the Society (same series No. 5, Kendal, 1891).[1] His Cumbrian manuscripts were used by Walter Fletcher for his Diocesan Book, published in 2015 by the Surtees Society.[6]
Family
Todd married in 1700 Lucy Dalston (d. 1733), eldest daughter of Christopher Dalston.[2] Their daughter Catherine married Archibald Hope of Rankeillor, and was painted by Allan Ramsay;[7] he was a son of Sir Thomas Hope, 8th Baronet, a Jacobite who saw the Battle of Culloden, and died in 1769, and was also painted by Ramsay.[8]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27490. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ James, Francis Godwin (1956). North Country Bishop: A Biography of William Nicolson. Yale University Press. pp. 168–9.
- ^ Phil. Trans. xiv. 726, xxvii. 291.
- ^ 5th edit. London, 1718; new edit., revised by William Watson Goodwin, London, 1870
- ISBN 978-0-85444-074-0.
- ^ Gray, John Miller (1884). "Scottish national portraits : catalogue of loan exhibition". Edinburgh : Board of Manufactures. p. 113.
- ^ "The Scottish Art Review". Elliot Stock. 1889. p. 50.
External links
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Todd, Hugh". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co.