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Charles Fotherby (c. 1549 – 1619) was a
Fotherby's date of birth is not recorded but he is stated to have been 70 when he died.
His father was Martin Fotherby of
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...
clergyman who became Dean of Canterbury (1615–1619).
Life
Fotherby's date of birth is not recorded but he is stated to have been 70 when he died.
His father was Martin Fotherby of Great Grimsby
Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of Linc ...
in Lincolnshire. His younger brother, Dr Martin Fotherby (c.1560-1620), was also a prebendary of Canterbury, and later bishop of Salisbury.
He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge
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(sizar 1573, scholar 1575, B.A. 1576/77, M.A. 1580, B.D. 1587). He became a fellow of Trinity in 1579. He was vicar of several Kentish parishes and became Archdeacon of Canterbury
The Archdeacon of Canterbury is a senior office-holder in the Diocese of Canterbury (a division of the Church of England Province of Canterbury). Like other archdeacons, he or she is an administrator in the diocese at large (having oversight of ...
and a prebendary of the Canterbury Cathedral in 1595 and Dean of Canterbury
The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Christ Church, Canterbury, England. The current office of Dean originated after the English Reformation, although Deans had also existed before this time; its immediate precur ...
in 1615.
He married Cecilia Walker of Cambridge, by whom he had ten children, but only his eldest son,
John, and four daughters survived him.
He died in 1619 and was buried in the Lady Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral. His monument is described as 'a bone-encrusted tomb-chest hich
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Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also ...
is a fine example of that obsessive early seventeenth-century morbidity which repelled later, more squeamish observers'.
As Dean, he is recorded as reinvigorating the musical life of the Cathedral.''A History of Canterbury Cathedral'', ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsay, M. Sparks. (OUP 1995, revised edition 2002) 441.
Career
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fotherby, Charles 16th-century English Anglican priests 17th-century English Anglican priests Archdeacons of Canterbury Deans of Canterbury Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge 1540s births 1619 deaths