British bishop
Charles Thomas Abraham (1857 – 27 January 1945) was a British Anglican minister who served as the bishop of Derby from 1909 until 1927.[ 1]
Life
"Charlie" is the small boy. His mother is to the right Abraham was born in 1857. He was the son of Charles and Caroline Abraham .[ 2] Keble College, Oxford .[ 3] curacy at St Mary's Church , Shrewsbury [ 4] Vicar of All Saints, Shrewsbury and Christ Church , Lichfield before succeeding Edward Were as the bishop of Derby (suffragan) .[ 5] Charles ,[ 6] Philip ,[ 7] bishops ; another son, Geoffrey, was killed in action during the First World War .[ 8] Jasper , was notorious for killing a Kenyan servant by flogging in 1923; the light sentence he received provoked a change in the legal system of Kenya Colony .[ 9]
After Bishop Abraham retired, a cousin bequeathed Little Moreton Hall in Congleton to him.[ 10]
References
^ New Suffragan Bishops The Times Monday, Sep 13, 1909; pg. 10; Issue 39063; col F
^ Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Abraham, Caroline Harriet" . teara.govt.nz . [permanent dead link ] ^ "Descendants of Philip Furse" . www.green.gen.name .^ "Church details" . Archived from the original on 19 October 2010.^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) . London: The Field Press. p. 405.^ Bishop Abraham Memorial The Times Tuesday, Mar 31, 1903; pg. 15; Issue 37042; col B^ Obituary-The Bishop Of Newfoundland Right Rev. P. S. Abraham The Times Saturday, Dec 24, 1955; pg. 9; Issue 53412; col A^ "Roll of Honour - Derbyshire - Bakewell" . www.roll-of-honour.com .^ Anderson, David M. (September 2011). "Punishment, Race and 'The Raw Native': Settler Society and Kenya's Flogging Scandals, 1895–1930". Journal of Southern African Studies . 37 (3): 479–497. doi :10.1080/03057070.2011.602887 . S2CID 143999794 . ^ "Little Moreton Hall: Cheshire's Crooked House" . www.timetravel-britain.com .
External links
Charles Abraham at Wikimedia Commons
