660 BISHOPS. ARMS OF THE SEE, Argent : on a cross, sable, a mitre with labels, or. Palace, Rose Castle, Carlisle. Town Residence, 118, Harley Street, W. Club, Athenaeum. CHESTER, LORD BISHOP OF. The Right Rev. WILLIAM JACOBSON, D.D. son cf William Jacobson, Esq. of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Born 1803; was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, whence he graduated as second- class in Classics, 1827; in 1829, he obtained the Ellerton Theological Piize, and was elected Fellow of Exeter College, and became M.A, ; was Vice- Principal of Magdalen Hall, 188248 ; Public Ora- tor, 18428; Select Preacher, 1833 and 1842; In- cumbent of Iffley, 183940 ; Regius Professor of Divinity, Canon of Christ Church, and Rector of Ewelme, 1848 65 ; and in '1848, was created D.D, by decree of Convocation; edited, for the University Press, the Remains of the Apostolic Fathers^ Lowell's Catechism, the Collected Works of Bishop Sanderson, and the Oxford Paraphrase of the Epistles of St. Paul. Consecrated 31st Bishop of Chester, 1865 ; is Patron of 50 Livings, and of 15 others with the crown, the Canonries of his Ca- thedral, and the two Archdeaconries of Chester and Liverpool : married (1836) Eleanor Jane, youngest daughter of Dawson Turner, Esq. of Great Yarmouth, and has issue, living, Sows; The Rev. William Bowstead Richards, b. 1840; educated at Winchester, and at Christ Church, Oxford: m. 1870, Edith Kathleen, 3rd daughter of Braiisby William Powys, Esq., Solicitor, Russell-square, W.C. Walter Hamilton Acland, b. 1847; edu- cated at Winchester, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Charles Longley, b. 1852. Robert Clerke, b. 1855. Daughters, Hester Sterling, b. 1843. Katharine Mary, b. 1850. This See, anciently part of the diocese of Lichfield, was erected into a distinct Bishopric by Henry VIII. in 1541, and the abbey-church of St. Werburgh became its Cathedral. ARMS OF THE SEE, Gules : three mitres with labels, or, two and one. Palace, Dee Side, Chester. Club, Athenaeum. CHICHESTER, LORD BISHOP OF. The Right Rev. RICHARD DCRNFORD, D.D Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, {1st class Literis Humanioribus and B.A, 1826, M.A. 1829,) of which he was sometime Fellow. Ordained Deacon 1830, and Priest 1831 ; appointed Rector of Middleton, near Manchester, 1835, Hon. Canon of Man Chester 1855, and Archdeacon of Manchester, 1867, and was a Surrogate and a Rural Dean. Consecrated 93rd Bishop of Chichester, 1870. Is Patron of 30 Livings, and of 4 alternately, the two Archdeaconries of Lewes and Chichester, and the Prebends in his Cathedral ; married (1840) Emma, daughter of the Rev. John Keate, D.D., late Head Master of Eton, and Canon of Windsor, and has issue, living, Sons, Richard, b. 1843 ; elected Fellow of King's College, Cambridge 1866; called'to the Bar at Inner Temple 1869 ; appointed Private Secretary to the Liuke of Richmond 1*7;'- Chambers, 3, Harcourt Buildings, Temple. Walter, b. 1347; is Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, ana Assistant Master at Eton College.
