George Bland
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George Bland[1] (1806–1880) was a nineteenth-century English clergyman.[2] He was Archdeacon of Lindisfarne[3] then Archdeacon of Northumberland.[4]
Life
[edit]Bland's mother was a sister of Edward Maltby, Bishop of Chichester then Durham.[5] He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,[6] and ordained in 1831.[7] He began his ecclesiastical career as Domestic Chaplain to his uncle at Chichester[8] after which he was the incumbent at St Peter, Slinfold.[9] In 1844 Maltby appointed him Archdeacon of Lindisfarne.[10] He married Frances Sibyl Collinson in 1846.[11]
He was transferred to Northumberland (to which a residentiary canonry at Durham Cathedral was annexed) in 1853, gaining also the Rectory of St Mary-le-Bow, Durham in 1856.[12] and died in post on 17 February 1880.[13] His wife died in 1897.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ Durham University Library Special Collections Catalogue
- ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
- ^ Durham Cathedral Library Additional Manuscripts
- ^ National Archives
- ^ ‘LOCAL NOTES’ The Newcastle Courant etc (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England), Friday, February 20, 1880; Issue 10703
- ^ "Bland, George (BLNT823G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ ‘Ordinations Lincoln’ Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, March 12, 1831; Issue 4
- ^ ‘THE CHURCH, The Essex Standard, and Colchester and County Advertiser (Colchester, England), Saturday, October 15, 1831; Issue 41
- ^ Geograph
- ^ The Times (London, England), Monday, May 20, 1844; pg. 1; Issue 18614
- ^ "Yonge Letters". Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1860 (p. 55)
- ^ ‘SUMMARY OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS’ The Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Wednesday, February 18, 1880; Issue 4677
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