Charles Ellicott Vanity Fair 18 July 1885

Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905) was a distinguished English Christian

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and churchman. He briefly served as

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, then Bishop of the united see of Gloucester and Bristol.

Early life and family

Ellicott was born in

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on 25 April 1819. He was educated at

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and

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. He married Constantia Ann Becher at

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, London on 31 July 1848. One of their children was the composer Rosalind Ellicott.

Ecclesiastical career

Following his

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into the

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in 1848, he was

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Pilton, Rutland Pilton is a small village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the village was 39 at the 2001 census. This remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Lyndon. The village ...

and then Professor of Divinity at

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and ''Hulsean Professor of Divinity'' at

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. The chancel of

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was rebuilt in 1852 in 13th-century style. In 1861, he was appointed

. Two years later he was nominated the bishop of the See of Gloucester and Bristol on 6 February and

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on 25 March 1863. In 1897, Bristol was removed from Diocese, but he continued as

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until resigning on 27 February 1905. He died in

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on 15 October 1905, aged 86.

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, Monday, 16 October 1905; pg. 5; Issue 37839; col B ''Death of Bishop Ellicott.''

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 *''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
' *''Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture'', 1901 *
Christus comprobator ; or, The testimony of Christ to the Old Testament : seven address
' *
Considerations on the revision of the English version of the New Testament
'

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