Charles Hughes Terrot

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(19 September 1790 – 2 April 1872) was a Scottish Episcopalian minister, theologian and

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. He served as

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from 1857 to 1862.

Life

Charles Terrot was born on 19 September 1790 at

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in southern India, the son of Captain Elias Terrot of the Indian Army who was killed at the siege of

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a few weeks after Charles' birth. His mother, Mary Fonteneau, returned to

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soon after, and raised Charles in

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. He was educated at

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and

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, where he graduated BA in 1812. He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1813. In 1813 he served as a Deacon in

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before moving to

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as a priest. He returned to Scotland in 1814 to serve as an Incumbent in Haddington. In 1833 he served in St Pauls in Edinburgh leading to his rise to Dean in 1837 and Bishop in 1841. During this time he lived at 19 Northumberland Street in

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. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1840, his proposer being

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, and served as their vice president from 1844 to 1860. He was also a member of the Architectural Society of Scotland. From 1856 until 1872 he was assisted in his role as Bishop by his chaplain Charles Richard Teape;

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was his coadjutor-bishop from 1863 until 1869, shortly after Terrot's retirement. He died at home at 9 Carlton Street in

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on 2 April 1872 and is buried in

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with his daughter. His second wife died before him and is buried separately in

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Family

He married twice, firstly in 1815 to Sarah Ingram Wood (d.1855), secondly, and briefly, in 1859 to Charlotte Madden (d.1862). He had a daughter, Sarah Terrot (d.1901) by his first marriage.

Publications

*''The Epistle of Paul to the Romans'' (1828) *''Principles of Biblical Interpretation'' (1832)

References

External links

Bibliographical directory
from

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