Dictionary of Indian Biography/Corrie, the Right Rev. Daniel
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CORRIE, THE RIGHT REV. DANIEL (1777–1837)
Bishop : son of John Corrie : born April, 1777 : educated privately, at Clare Hall, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Exhibitioner) : ordained, 1802 : went to CalCutta as a Bengal chaplain, 1806 : appointed to various chaplaincies up-country, and did mission work also : was Senior Chaplain in Calcutta, 1817 : Archdeacon in 1823 : thrice, as Commissary, carried on the administration of the diocese on the deaths of Bishops : was the first Bishop of Madras from 1835 to his death on Feb. 5, 1837 : was LL.D.; Bishop Corrie's Grammar School in Madras, and his statue in the Cathedral there perpetuate his memory. He was a friend of Charles Simeon and Henry Martyn at Cambridge.