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670 BISHOPS. Awdry, M.A. Head Master of Winchester College, Head Master of Hurstpierpoint. Charlotte Anne. Margaret Helen. The Bishopric was founded at Sherborne, 705 ; Wells and Exeter were separated from it in 905 : in 10/5, it was removed to Old Sarum, and in 1220 to Salisbury. ARMS OF THE SEE. Azure: our lady crowned, holding in her dexter arm the infant Jesus ; round both the heads, circles of the glory of the East ; in her sinister hand, a sceptre, all proper. Palace, Salisbury. Club, Athenaeum. SODOE AND MAN, LORD BISHOP OF.* The Hon. and Right Rev. HORATIO POWYS, D.D. 3rd son of the 2nd Baron Lilford. Born 1815; was educated at Harrow and St. John's College, Cambridge, (M.A. 1826, D.D. 1854) ; was Rector of Warrington, 1831 54 . Consecrated 66th Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1854 ; is Patron of 4 Vicarages : married (1833) Percy Gore, eldest daughter of William Currie, Esq. of East Horsley Park, Surrey, and has issue, living, Sons, Percy William, b. 1838; was educated at Rugby and Oxford. Henry Littleton, 6. 1839; Capt. 52nd Regiment; TO. 1863, Helena Cecilia Graves, eldest daughter of the Bishop of Limerick. Daughters, Mary Georgina. Sophia Vernon. Percy Maria. Laura Harriet. The original See, out of which this Bishopric was taken, was founded by St. Patrick, in 447. ARMS OF THE SEE, Gules: between two pillars, argent, the Virgin statant, arms ex- tended, proper. Palace Bishop's -court, Isle of Man. WINCHESTER, LORD BISHOP OF. The Right Rev. EDWARD HAROLD BROWNE, D.D. youngest son of Lieut. -Col. Robert Browne, J.P. and D.L. for Bucks, of Morton-house, in that county. Born 1811 ; was educated at Eton, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, (B.A., 24th Wrangler, 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1855, D.D. 1864) ; was Fellow and Tutor of Emmanuel, 1 837 40 ; Incumbent of St. Sidwell's, Exeter, 18413 ; Vice Principal and Professor of Hebrew at St. Davids College, Lampeter, 1843 50 ; Vicar 'of itenwyn, Cornwall, 18507; Vicar of Heavitree, 1857; Canon of Exeter, 1857 64 ; Proctor in Convocation for the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter, 1852 64; Norrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge* 185464. Consecrated 57th Bishop of Ely, 1864, and translated as 84th Bishop of Winchester, 1873 ; is Patron of 90 Livings, the Canonries in his Cathedral, and the Archdeaconries of Surrey, Winchester and Isle of Wight ; appointed Prelate of the Order of the Garter, Nov. 1873 : married (1840) Elizabeth, daughter of Clement Carlyon, Esq., M.D., and grand- daughter of Thomas Carlyon, Esq., of Tregrehan, Cornwall, and has issue, living,

  • This prelate has a seat but not a vote in the House of Lords.