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The Right Reverend

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

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

Ellicott was 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]

Ecclesiastical career

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. The chancel of St Nicholas' Church, Pilton was rebuilt in 1852 in 13th-century style.

In 1861, he was appointed Dean of Exeter. Two years later he was nominated the bishop of the See of Gloucester and Bristol on 6 February and consecrated on 25 March 1863.^[6] In 1897, Bristol was removed from Diocese,^[7] but he continued as Bishop of Gloucester until resigning on 27 February 1905.^[8] He died in Kent on 15 October 1905, aged 86.^[9]

Works

Historical Lectures on the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Being the Hulsean Lectures for the Year 1859. With Notes, Critical, Historical, and Explanatory, 1862
Destiny of the Creature, 1865
Historical Lectures on the Life of Christ, 1870
Modern Unbelief, its Principles and Characteristics, 1877
Spiritual Needs in Country Parishes, 1888
Sacred Study
An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers, 1897 (Editor)
A New Testament Commentary for English Readers, 1878 (Editor)
St Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians: With a Critical and Grammatical Commentary, 1887
Our Reformed Church and its Present Troubles, 1897
Some Present Dangers for the Church of England, 1878
Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture, 1901
Christus comprobator ; or, The testimony of Christ to the Old Testament : seven address, 1892
Considerations on the revision of the English version of the New Testament, 1870

Ellicott described the Commentary for Modern Readers which he edited as "an attempt to supply a need which has been long and seriously felt by meditative readers of God’s Holy Word".^[10]

Notes

^ The Times, Wednesday, 3 July 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 (40455). London, England: 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, 16 October 1905; pg. 5; Issue 37839; col B Death of Bishop Ellicott.
^ Ellicott, C. J., Preface to Commentary for Modern Readers, 1905 edition, accessed on 21 June 2024

Bibliography

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.

External links

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

[1] The Times, Wednesday, 3 July 1861; pg. 6; Issue 23975; col A New Dean of Exeter

[2] "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X

[3] "Ellicott, Charles John (ELCT837CJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[4] The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle... a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs. Simpkin, Marshall & Company. 1848. p. 566.

[5] "Mrs Ellicott". The Times (40455). London, England: 10. 24 February 1914.

[6] Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 232 and 249.

[7] Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 232.

[8] Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 249.

[9] The Times, Monday, 16 October 1905; pg. 5; Issue 37839; col B Death of Bishop Ellicott.

[10] Ellicott, C. J., Preface to Commentary for Modern Readers, 1905 edition, accessed on 21 June 2024

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