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Hugh Todd (c.1657–1728) was an English cleric and academic, known also as an antiquarian and author.


Life

Born at Blencow, Cumberland, about 1658, he was son of Thomas Todd, rector of Hutton in the Forest, who was ejected by parliamentary sequestrators and imprisoned at
Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a settlement called Luguvalium to serve forts along Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. Due to its pro ...
. On 29 March 1672 he matriculated at
The Queen's College, Oxford The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassi ...
, graduating B.A. On 4 July 1677, and becoming taberdar of the college. In the following year, on 23 December, he was elected a fellow of
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. He proceeded M.A. on 2 July 1679, and accumulated the degrees of B.D. and D.D. on 12 December 1692. In 1684 Todd became vicar of Kirkland in Cumberland, but resigned the charge on being installed a prebendary of the see of Carlisle on 4 October 1685. In 1685 he was collated to the vicarage of
Stanwix Stanwix is a district of Carlisle, Cumbria in North West England. The ward population (called Stanwix Urban) had a population taken at the 2011 census of 5,934. It is located on the north side of River Eden, across from Carlisle city centre. ...
in the same county, which he resigned in 1688, on becoming rector of
Arthuret Arthuret is a civil parish in Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,434, increasing to 2,471 at the 2011 census. The parish includes the town of Longtown and the village of Easton. It is bounded by the River Es ...
, presented by
Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston PC (24 September 1648 – 22 December 1695) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1675 and 1689. He became a Jacobite conspirator, but his reputation ...
. In 1699 he was also appointed vicar of Penrith. In 1702
William Nicolson William Nicolson (1655–1727) was an English churchman, linguist and antiquarian. As a bishop he played a significant part in the House of Lords during the reign of Queen Anne, and left a diary that is an important source for the politics of ...
became
bishop of Carlisle The Bishop of Carlisle is the Ordinary (officer), Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle in the Province of York. The diocese covers the county of Cumbria except for Alston Moor and the former Sedbergh Rural District. The Episcop ...
. From early in his episcopate he clashed with Todd, who was uncompromising. After several minor disputes, in one of which Todd made his curate a churchwarden, Todd, with the dean
Francis Atterbury Francis Atterbury (6 March 1663 – 22 February 1732) was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and ban ...
, undertook to defend the chapter against the bishop, who exhibited articles of inquiry against them. Todd denied the right of visitation to the bishop, declaring that it belonged to the crown. For this conduct he was first suspended and then excommunicated by Nicolson, but continued to officiate in his parish as priest, ignoring the bishop's action. The bishops were alarmed by Todd's rejection of episcopal authority, and a bill was passed in parliament in 1708 as the Cathedral Act, to establish their rights of visitation more firmly. After its passage the sentence of excommunication on Todd was removed. The following day Sir James Montague, a Member of Parliament for
Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a settlement called Luguvalium to serve forts along Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. Due to its pro ...
, held a dinner for Nicolson and Todd, at which they were reconciled. Todd died in Penrith on 6 October 1728.


Works

Todd contributed "The Description of Sweden" to Moses Pitt's ''English Atlas'' (1680). In the ''
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'' he published "An Account of a Salt Spring on the Banks of the River Weare in Durham", and "An Account of some Antiquities found at Corbridge, Northumberland". He translated "How a Man may be Sensible of his Progress in Virtue", for ''Plutarch's Morals, translated from the Greek by several hands'' (1684), and the life of Phocion for ''The Lives of Illustrious Men, written in Latin by Cornelius Nepos, and done into English by several hands'' (Oxford, 1684). Todd published a number of poems. He also assisted John Walker in compiling his ''Sufferings of the Clergy''. He left manuscripts, including: ''Notitia Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Carliolensis, et Notitia Prioratus de Wedderhal'', 1688, which was edited for the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archæological Society by Richard Saul Ferguson (Tract Ser. No. 6, Kendal, 1892); and ''An Account of the City and Diocese of Carlisle'', 1689, also edited by Ferguson for the Society (same series No. 5, Kendal, 1891). His Cumbrian manuscripts were used by Walter Fletcher for his ''Diocesan Book'', published in 2015 by the
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.


Family

Todd married in 1700 Lucy Dalston (d. 1733), eldest daughter of Christopher Dalston. Their daughter Catherine married Archibald Hope of Rankeillor, and was painted by
Allan Ramsay Allan Ramsay may refer to: *Allan Ramsay (poet) or Allan Ramsay the Elder (1686–1758), Scottish poet *Allan Ramsay (artist) Allan Ramsay (13 October 171310 August 1784) was a Scottish portrait Painting, painter. Life and career Ramsay w ...
; he was a son of
Sir Thomas Hope, 8th Baronet Sir Thomas Hope, 8th Baronet (1681–17 April 1771) was a Scottish aristocrat, lawyer and agricultural reformer. Life Hope was born in 1681 at Rankeillor House near Monimail in Fife. He was the son of Margaret, the daughter of Sir John Ayto ...
, a Jacobite who saw the
Battle of Culloden The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, thereby endi ...
, and died in 1769, and was also painted by Ramsay.


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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Todd, Hugh 1728 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests Fellows of University College, Cambridge English antiquarians Year of birth uncertain People from Blencow 18th-century English Anglican priests