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Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus
Robert Ponsonby Tottenham (5 September 1773 – 28 April 1850; Robert Ponsonby Loftus until 1806) was an Irish Anglican Bishop in the first half of the 19th century. He was born the younger son of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely and Jane Myhill, daughter of Robert Myhill of Killarney, in Woodstock, County Wicklow on 5 September 1773 and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was Precentor of Cashel from 1798 until 1804 when he was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora. Upon his father's death, he inherited the family's Tottenham Green estate, changing his surname back to the older family name of Tottenham. In 1820 he was translated to Ferns and two years later to Clogher, where he replaced the disgraced Bishop Jocelyn. He died in post on 28 April 1850. He married the Hon. Alicia Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden and his third wife Anne Monck, and had numerous children of whom seven reached adult life, including the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Right Reverend
The Right Reverend (abbreviated as The Rt Revd or The Rt Rev) is an honorific style (form of address), style given to certain (primarily Western Christian, Western) Christian ministers and members of clergy. It is a variant of the more common style "The Reverend". Usage * In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholicism in the United Kingdom, Catholic Church in Great Britain, it applies to bishops, except that ''The Most Reverend'' is used for archbishops (elsewhere, all Roman Catholic Church, Catholic bishops are styled as ''The Most Reverend''). * In some churches with a Presbyterian heritage, it applies to the current Moderator of the General Assembly, such as ** the current Moderator of the United Church of Canada (if the moderator is an ordained minister; laypeople may be elected moderator, but are not styled Right Reverend) ** the current Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland ** the current Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ** the cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precentor
A precentor is a person who helps facilitate worship. The details vary depending on the religion, denomination, and era in question. The Latin derivation is ''præcentor'', from cantor, meaning "the one who sings before" (or alternatively, "first singer"). Ancient precentors The chief precentor was the highest position in many ancient Mesopotamian cities (see Music of Mesopotamia). Jewish precentors Jewish precentors are song or prayer leaders, leading synagogue music. A Jewish precentor is typically called a hazzan or cantor. In the Middle Ages, women precentors leading prayers in the '' vaybershul'' (women's gallery) were known as firzogerin, farzangerin, foreleiner, zogerin, or zogerke. Christian precentors A precentor is a member of a church who helps facilitate worship. The role of precentor was carried over from the synagogues into the early Christian church. Catholic precentors Ancient era The term ''precentor'' usually described an ecclesiastical dignitary, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mant
Richard Mant (12 February 1776 – 2 November 1848) was an English churchman who became a bishop in Ireland. He was a prolific writer, his major work being a ''History of the Church of Ireland''. Life He was born at Southampton, where his father Richard Mant D.D. was headmaster of the King Edward VI School. He was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Oxford (which he entered in 1793). His youngest sister was the writer Alicia Catherine Mant. His maternal grandfather was the scholar Joseph Bingham. He was elected a Scholar of the College in 1794, graduated with a BA in 1797, and became a fellow of Oriel College in 1798 (a position he held up to 1804). Mant was ordained in the Church of England, initially holding a curacy at Southampton in 1802. He was then appointed to the vicarage of Coggeshall, Essex in 1810, and in 1811 he became Bampton Lecturer. In 1816 he was made rector of St Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and in 1820 became Bishop of Killaloe and Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Alexander (bishop)
Nathaniel Alexander (1760 – 21 October 1840), was an Anglican bishop in Ireland during the first half of the 19th century. He was born in 1760 and educated at Harrow and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was appointed Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh in 1802 and translated to Killaloe in 1804. Only six months later he became Bishop of Down and Connor. He was translated for a third time to Meath in 1823. A nephew of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon; father of Robert Alexander, Archdeacon of Down from 1814 to 1828; and uncle of William Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh from 1896 to 1911, he died in post on 21 October 1840.The Times, Saturday, Oct 24, 1840; pg. 3; Issue 17497; col C ''Death Of The Bishop Of Meath.-The Right Rev Nathaniel Alexander'' References 1760 births People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge 19th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh Bishops of Killaloe an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clogher Cathedral
St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher is one of two cathedral churches in the Diocese of Clogher (the other is St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen) in the Church of Ireland. It is situated in the village of Clogher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh. It was designed in 1744 by architect James Martin in a neo-classical style. History According to tradition a monastery and bishopric were founded in Clogher circa 490 by St. Macartan on the orders of his friend Saint Patrick. In 1041, the church of Clogher was rebuilt, and dedicated to the memory of St. Macartin. It was again rebuilt in 1295 by Matthew M'Catasaid, Bishop of Clogher, but burnt to the ground on 20 April 1396 along with two chapels, the abbey, the court of the bishops, and thirty-two other buildings with all their contents. In 1610 the abbey and its revenues were confiscated by King James I and given to the Diocese of Clogher. The present building was erected on the site in 1744 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Clogher
The Dean of Clogher is a dignitary of the Diocese of Clogher within the Church of Ireland. The title may be held by any licensed incumbent in the diocese, not necessarily the rector of one of the cathedral parishes of Clogher. The Dean, with the Cathedral chapter, has responsibility for the cathedral life of St Macartan's, Clogher and St Macartin's, Enniskillen. The current incumbent is Kenny Hall, rector of Enniskillen. Deans of Clogher * 1390 Peter O'Heoghain"Clogher clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B. p31: Enniskille; R.H. Ritchie; 1929 * 1411 Donal O'Heoghain * 1422–1451 Philip O'Mulloyre * ?–1498 Charles Maguire“A New History of Ireland” T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A.: Oxford, OUP, 1976 * ?–1508 William McCaghwell * 1530–? Odo * 1606 Robert Openshawe (afterwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Tottenham
George Tottenham (20 October 1825 – 20 October 1911) was Dean of Clogher from 1900 to 1903. He was the 10th son of Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus, Bishop of Clogher from 1822 to 1850, and the Hon. Alicia Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden. He was educated at Sherborne and Trinity College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1849, after curacies in Donaghmore and Tynan he was Rector of Inishmacsaint.‘TOTTENHAM, Very Rev. George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201accessed 10 May 2014/ref> He was also Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and was made a Freeman of Dublin in 1861. He married Emily Frances Maclean, the eldest surviving daughter of Rev. William Maclean, Prebendary A prebendary is a member of the Catholic Church, Catholic or Anglicanism , Anglican clergy, a form of canon (priest) , canon with a role in the administra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden
Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden (19 September 1729 – 23 August 1803) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Hawarden was the second son of Sir Robert Maude, 1st Baronet and his wife, Eleanor Cornwallis, daughter of Thomas Cornwallis and Emma Charlton. Hawarden succeeded to the baronetcy following the death of his unmarried older brother, Thomas Maude, 1st Baron de Montalt, in 1777. He served as the Member of Parliament for Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons between 1783 and 1785. He was created Baron de Montalt of Hawarden in the Peerage of Ireland The peerage of Ireland consists of those Peerage, titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lordship of Ireland, Lord or Monarchy of Ireland, King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great B ... on 29 June 1785. He was further honoured when he was created Viscount Hawarden, also in the Peerage of Ireland, on 5 December 1793. He had 16 children with three wives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Jocelyn
The Rt Rev. and Hon. Percy Jocelyn (29 November 1764 – 3 September 1843) was Anglican Bishop of Clogher in the Church of Ireland from 1820 to 1822. He was forced from his position due to being caught in homosexual practices, which had been outlawed under the Buggery Act 1533. Early life He was the third son of The 1st Earl of Roden, whose family estates were in Castlewellan, County Down, by his wife Lady Anne Hamilton.''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' (''D.I.B.''): Jocelyn, Percy. https://www.dib.ie/biography/jocelyn-percy-a4281 He graduated with a B.A. from Trinity College Dublin. At Trinity, he was regarded as something of a bookworm, spending much of his time in his rooms on Library Square. He was later described as "a tall thin young man with a pale, meagre and melancholy countenance, and so reserved in his manners and recluse in his habits that he was considered by everybody to be both proud and unsociable".Brian Lacey, ''Terrible Queer Creatures: Homosexuality in Iri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Translation (ecclesiastical)
Translation is the transfer of a bishop from one episcopal see to another. The word is from the Latin ', meaning "carry across" (another religious meaning of the term is the translation of relics). This can be: *From one diocesan bishopric to another bishopric which is perceived as more important (or the bishop prefers as his or her see) *From suffragan bishop status to diocesan bishop *From coadjutor bishop to diocesan bishop *From one country's episcopate to another *From diocesan bishop to archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ... References Anglicanism Episcopacy in the Catholic Church Christian terminology {{christianity-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tottenham Green
Tottenham Green was an electoral ward within the London Borough of Haringey in Greater London, England from 2002 to 2022. According to the 2001 Census, the population of Tottenham Green was around 12,000, in around 5,500 homes. Around 2,900 homes did not own a car. Just under 2,000 of the population were Muslims. The population at the 2011 Census increased to 14,580 in 5,925 homes. Those living in the ward had a life expectancy seven years less than someone living in nearby Highgate; the area has a significant and entrenched problem with guns, drugs, arson, burglaries and anti-social behaviour. The high rate of violent and petty crime in Tottenham Green has remained fairly stable over the past six years. (Source: ''Key Findings of the 2004 Crime & Drugs Audit Report'', Haringey Council). The area has a large new sports and leisure centre, and good transport connections. The Government's ''Indices of Deprivation'' (2004) reported Tottenham Green to be among the top 20 per cent o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
