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EDWARD LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY.
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the living of Radcliffe, near Nottingham, which he resigned in February, 1833.

After this period till the time of his being consecrated Bishop of Salisbury he resided principally at Merton, discharging the duties of incumbent of St. Peter's in the East, in the city of Oxford.

He was presented to a stall in the Cathedral of Southwell in January, 1834, and in March of the same year he was made one of the Select Preachers of the University.

On the 22nd of January, 1835, he published a pamphlet on the question of the admission of Dissenters into the Universities. In 1836 he published, in concert with others, a compilation of Metrical Psalms and Hymns, adapted to the use of the Church, of which 2000 copies were sold.

In November of the same year he published a volume of Sermons which he had preached before the University, and which obtained considerable celebrity at the time.

On the 16th of April, 1837, at the unusually early age of 36 years, he was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury, and enthroned in the Cathedral of that See, on the 11th of May, 1837.

He married on the 27th of June, 1839, Louisa Ker Seymer, daughter of Henry Seymer, Esq., of Hanford, Dorset, and of Harriet Beckford, sister of the late Lord Rivers, Mrs. Denison was a lady remarkable for great personal beauty, but still more for