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Adm. pens. at TRINITY, July 9, 1825. [S. of Anthony, surgeon, of 3, King's Square, Bristol. B. at Williton, Somerset.] Did not reside, and adm. at St John's, July 2, 1828. ' Matric. Easter, 1829. Re-adm. at Trinity, Oct. 24, 1831; B.A. 1833; M.A. 1836. Ord. deacon (Bath and Wells, Litt. dim. from Bristol) Jan. 19, 1834; priest (Bristol) Feb. 28, 1835. R. of Sutton Waldron, Dorset, 1835-71. Preb. of Salisbury, 1854. Rural Dean of Shaftesbury. Archdeacon of Dorset, 1862; resigned the same year on account of ill-health after having delivered a most able and useful charge. Proctor in Convocation for two years for dio. of Salisbury. Whilst Rector of Sutton Waldron, carried out agricultural experiments, which attracted the interest of many visitors; his primary object was to provide profitable work for the unemployed. On one occasion, he produced before a large agricultural assembly at Sturminster Newton a good-sized Swede turnip
from a cavity scooped out of a block of wood, grown by the aid of artificial manure alone. Married, July 16, 1840, Maria Sarah, dau. of J. Langston, of Sarsden, Oxon. Died Dec. 12, 1883, aged 76, at St Leonards-on-Sea. There is a M.I. to his father (d. 1850) in the churchyard. Brother of Henry C. (1845) and of the next. (Foster, Index Eccles.; Clergy List; Hutchins, History of Dorset, IV. 110; F. P. White.)
| Type | Name | Date | Office | Event | Location | Full Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appt | Huxtable, Anthony | 01/03/1835 | Rector | Institution | Sutton Waldron/ | View |