The Very Rev

Very Reverend

The Very Reverend is a style given to certain religious figures.*In the Roman Catholic Church, by custom, priests who hold positions of particular note: e.g...

Francis Pigou , DD

Doctor of Divinity

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 (3 January 1832 – 25 January 1916) was an eminent Anglican priest

Priest

A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

 in the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th.

Career

He was born in Baden-Baden and educated at Ripon Grammar School

Ripon Grammar School

Ripon Grammar School is a co-educational, selective, state secondary grammar school and specialist engineering college located in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England...

 and Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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. He was ordained in 1856 and became a Curate

Curate

A curate is a person who is invested with the care or cure of souls of a parish. In this sense "curate" correctly means a parish priest but in English-speaking countries a curate is an assistant to the parish priest...

 at St Andrew, Stoke Talmage

Stoke Talmage

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, then Chaplain

Chaplain

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 at Marbœuf Chapel, Paris

Paris

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. He held incumbencies

Vicar

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 at St Peter, Vere Street

Vere Street, Westminster

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, St Philip, Regent Street

Regent Street

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 and St George, Doncaster

Doncaster

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 during which time he became an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen

Honorary Chaplain to the Queen

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. He was Rural Dean

Rural Dean

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 of Halifax from 1875 to 1888 when he became Dean of Chichester.

He found life in Chichester

Chichester

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 to be unbearably sleepy, so after three years there he became Dean of Bristol, a post that offered him more scope for his energy. He died at Bristol on 25 January 1916..

Family

On 3 January 1860 he married Mary, née Somers; they had two daughters. One daughter, Ernestine, was married to Alfred Inglis

Alfred Inglis

Alfred Markham Inglis was an amateur cricketer who played for the M.C.C. and Kent in the 1870s. By profession, he was a banker.-Early life:...

 (1856–1919), who played cricket

Cricket

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 for Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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.

Mary died in 1868, and in January of the following year he married Harriet Maude, née Gambier.