Edward Fortescue
Edward Bowles Knottesford-Fortescue[1][2][N 1] was an Anglican priest in the 19th century.
He was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1816 and educated at Wadham College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1840. After a curacy in Billesley he became the incumbent at Wilmcote. In 1851 he became Provost of St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth,[4] a post he held for twenty years.
Having resigned as Provost in 1871, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1872; unable, as a married man, to be ordained in the Catholic Church he lived as a layman acting as principal to a Catholic school in Holloway.[5]
He died on 18 August 1877.[6]
Notes
- ^ Fortescue may have used each surname separately at different points in his life.
References
- ^ St Ninian's Cathedral – The Episcopate of Patrick Torry
- ^ fortescue.org – Edward Bowles Knottesford Fortescue of Alveston
- ^ UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE, The Standard (London, England), Friday, 3 June 1842; Issue 5586. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
- ^ ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
- ^ "The Latin Clerk: The Life, Work, and Travels of Adrian Fortescue" Nichols, Aidan: Cambridge The Lutterworth Press ISBN 9780718892746
- ^ Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries . The Standard (London, England), Wednesday, August 22, 1877; pg. [1]; Issue 16561. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
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- Provosts of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth
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