Comments
Venn: Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, May 28, 1795. [Youngest] s. of the Rt. Hon. Nathaniel (1753), Lord Harrowby (and Elizabeth, dau. of the Rt. Rev. Richard Terrick, D.D., Bishop of London). B. [July 21, 1777], at Streatham, Surrey. School, Harrow. ' Matric. Michs. 1795; M.A. 1798; D.D. 1813. Ord. deacon (Lincoln, litt. dim. from Lichfield) May 31, 1801; priest (Gloucester) Aug. 23, 1801; C. of Sandon, Staffs., 1801. R. of Lutterworth, Leics., 1801-14. V. of Claybrooke, 1805-15. Canon of Windsor, 1808. Dean of Wells, 1812-31. Bishop of Gloucester, 1815-24; there was some opposition to his appointment owing to his strong Evangelical views. Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1824-36; where he at once startled everybody by plunging into Evangelical work in all directions. Preb. of Westminster, 1831-6. Married, Dec. 15, 1802, at Dishley, Leics., Sophia, dau. of Thomas March Phillipps, of Garendon Park, Leics., and had issue. Author, Sermons. Died Mar. 31, 1836, at Hastings. Brother of Dudley (1779) and Richard (1784). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 463; Cant. Act Book; Burke, P. and B.; D.N.B.)