Luxmoore, Charles Scott (1815-1834)

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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Apr. 29, 1811. [Eldest] s. of the [Rt. Rev. John (1776)], Bishop of Hereford. B. [1792], at Eton. School, Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1811; Scholar, 1811; B.A. 1815; M.A. 1818. Ord. deacon (Hereford) May 28, 1815; priest, Aug. 13, 1815; R. of Bromyard (2nd portion), Heref., 1815-54. Preb. of Hereford, 1815-54. R. of Cradley, 1816-54. R. (sinecure) of Darowen, Montgom., 1819-54. Preb. of St Asaph, 1819. Dean of St Asaph, 1826-54. Chancellor of St Asaph. Lecturer at Bromyard. Married, Sept. 10, 1829, Catherine, dau. of Sir John Nicholl, Dean of the Arches, of Merthyr Mawr, Glam. Died Apr. 27, 1854, at Cradley; buried in St Asaph Cathedral. ‘The death of the Dean of St Asaph removes another gigantic pluralist. The late Dean held, beside his deanery, which was worth £1200 per annum, the rectory of Cradley, worth £1000 per annum, a sinecure rectory at Bromyard, £200 per annum, another of the same value at Darowen, the Chancellorship of the Cathedral and a Canonry of Hereford.’ (The Clerical Journal, 1854.) Father of John N. (1848); brother of John H. M. (1817). (Burke, L.G.; D.N.B.; Scott, MSS.; Foster, Index Eccles.; Boase, II. 538; Cant. Act Book; G. Mag., 1854, I. 663.)

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