Charles Ellicott

The Right Reverend Charles Ellicott
Bishop of Gloucester

Province	Province of Canterbury
Diocese	Diocese of Gloucester
Orders
Ordination	1848
Consecration	25 March 1863
Personal details
Birth name	Charles John Ellicott
Born	25 April 1819 Whitwell, Rutland, England
Died	15 October 1905 (aged 86) Kent, England
Nationality	English
Denomination	Church of England
Spouse	Constantia Ann Becher
Children	Arthur and Rosalind
Alma mater	Stamford School; St John's College, Cambridge

Ellicott as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward), July 1885.

Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905) was a distinguished English Christian theologian, academic and churchman. He briefly served as Dean of Exeter,^[1] then Bishop of the united see of Gloucester and Bristol.

Early life and family

Born in Whitwell, Rutland on 25 April 1819,^[2] he was educated at Stamford School and St John's College, Cambridge.^[3] He married Constantia Ann Becher at St Marylebone Parish Church, London on 31 July 1848.^[4] One of their children was the composer Rosalind Ellicott.^[5]

Following his ordination into the Anglican ministry in 1848, he was Vicar of Pilton, Rutland and then Professor of Divinity at King's College London and Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. In 1861, he was appointed Dean of Exeter. Two years later he was nominated the bishop of the united sees of Gloucester and Bristol on 6 February and consecrated on 25 March 1863.^[6] In 1897, he resigned the bishopric of Bristol,^[7] but continued as Bishop of Gloucester until resigning on 27 February 1905.^[8] He died in Kent on 15 October 1905, aged 86.^[9]

↑ The Times, Wednesday, Jul 03, 1861; pg. 6; Issue 23975; col A New Dean of Exeter
↑ "Who was Who"1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
↑ "Ellicott, Charles John (ELCT837CJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle... a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs. Simpkin, Marshall & Company. 1848. p. 566.
↑ "Mrs Ellicott". The Times. London, England (40455): 10. 24 February 1914.
↑ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 232 and 249.
↑ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 232.
↑ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 249.
↑ The Times, Monday, Oct 16, 1905; pg. 5; Issue 37839; col B Death of Bishop Ellicott.

Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

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Church of England titles
Preceded by Thomas Hill Lowe	Dean of Exeter 1861 – 1863	Succeeded by William Brodrick
Preceded by William Thompson	Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol 1863–1897	Succeeded by Himself as Bishop of Gloucester Forrest Browne as Bishop of Bristol
New creation Separate see	Bishop of Gloucester 1897–1905	Succeeded by Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson

Deans of Exeter

High Medieval	Serlo Roger de Wynkleigh William de Stanwey Roger de Toriz John Noble John Pycot Andrew de Kilkenny

Late Medieval	Henry de Somerset Thomas de Lechlade Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio Richard de Coleton Richard de Braylegh Reginald de Bugwell Robert Sumpter Thomas Walkyngton Ralph Tregrision Stephen Payn John Cobethorn John Hals Henry Webber Peter Courtenay Lionel Woodville John Arundel

Early modern	Edward Willoughby Thomas Hobbes John Vesey Richard Pace Reginald Pole Simon Haynes James Haddon Thomas Reynolds Gregory Dodds George Carew Stephen Townesend Matthew Sutcliffe William Peterson Seth Ward Edward Young George Cary The Hon Richard Annesley William Wake Lancelot Blackburne Edward Trelawney John Gilbert Alured Clarke William Holmes Charles Lyttleton Jeremiah Milles William Buller Charles Harward

Late modern	Charles Talbot George Gordon John Garnett Whittington Landon Thomas Lowe Charles Ellicott The Viscount Midleton Archibald Boyd Benjamin Cowie Alfred Earle Henry Gamble Walter Matthews Spencer Carpenter Alexander Wallace Marcus Knight Clifford Chapman Richard Eyre Keith Jones Jonathan Meyrick Jonathan Draper

Bishops of Gloucester and of Gloucester and Bristol

Gloucester	John Wakeman John Hooper James Brooks Richard Cheyney John Bullingham Godfrey Goldsborough Thomas Ravis Henry Parry Giles Thomson Miles Smith Godfrey Goodman William Nicholson John Pritchett Robert Frampton Edward Fowler Richard Willis Joseph Wilcocks Elias Sydall Martin Benson James Johnson William Warburton The Hon James Yorke Samuel Hallifax Richard Beadon George Huntingford The Hon Henry Ryder Christopher Bethell James Monk (became Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol)

Gloucester and Bristol	James Monk (previously Bishop of Gloucester) Charles Baring William Thomson Charles Ellicott (became Bishop of Gloucester)

Gloucester	Charles Ellicott (previously Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol) Edgar Gibson Arthur Headlam Clifford Woodward Wilfred Askwith Basil Guy John Yates Peter Ball David Bentley Michael Perham Martyn Snow (Acting) Rachel Treweek

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 23722791 LCCN: n88666848 ISNI: 0000 0000 8102 5795 GND: 105538670X SUDOC: 142629367 NLA: 35478364

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