Harrington.” This clergyman is the same as Rev. Temple Chevallier, of Aspal — so styled in 1796. Next we find the Rev. Temple Fishe Chevallier, Rector of Badingham, in Suffolk [son of the above?]; he married Sarah Edgecumbe. Mrs. Chevallier gave birth, on 19th October 1794, to twin sons — (1) Temple, (2) Richard Edgecumbe, and they were baptized privately the same day. I am not informed as to the younger son, but I am now to give a memoir of Temple,[1] who, though he may have seemed delicate when new-born, did, by “reason of strength,” reach the verge of fourscore years.
The school education of Temple Chevallier was obtained at Bury St. Edmund’s and at Ipswich. At the University of Cambridge he had an eminent career. He took his first degree with honours as Second Wrangler. He was ordained as a clergyman in 1820, and proceeded to the degree of B.D. He was Vicar of the Parish of St. Andrew the Great in Cambridge, and Fellow and Tutor of St. Catherine Hall. In one year he was examiner both in Classics and Mathematics; “he is the only man who has been thus distinguished.” He was the Hulscan Lecturer in the years 1826 and 1827. The title of his first course of Lectures was “On the Historical Types contained in the Old Testament — twenty Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge, in the year 1826, at the Lectures founded by the Rev. John Hulse.” The other Hulsean volume was entitled, “Proofs of the Divine Power and Wisdom derived from the Study of Astronomy.” He also published “A translation of the Epistles of Clement of Rome, Polycarp and Ignatius, and of the Apologies of Justin Martyr and Tertullian, with an introduction and brief notes illustrative of the Ecclesiastical History of the first two centuries,” Cambridge, 1833. He edited “Pearson on the Creed;” his edition was printed at Cambridge in 1859.
In 1834 he removed from Cambridge to Durham University, to which lately founded institution he dedicated his commanding talents and zealous labours. He accepted the Professorship of Mathematics, and founded the Durham Astronomical Observatory, of which he was the first Director. He also undertook the pastoral charge of the parish of Esh, to which he was presented by Wadham College (Oxford), and he laboured there for about thirty-five years. The large majority of his parishioners being Romanists, his duties and experiences were like those of an old Huguenot pasteur; but happily the priest could subject him to no worse sufferings than the reports of volleys of curses fulminated from his pretended Catholic altar. Mr. Chevallier was made a Canon of Durham Cathedral in 1865. His health failed in 1871, and he died in his eightieth year, on 4th November 1873.
An aunt of the Reverend Canon, Harriet Chevallier, was married, in 1796, to John Cobbold, Esq. (son of John, son of Thomas), of The Holywells near Ipswich, born 1774, died 1860; she predeceased him in 1831, having had six sons and eight daughters. Her eldest son was John Chevallier Cobbold, Esq., of The Holywells, born 24th August 1797, M.P. for Ipswich from 1847 to 1868, died 6th October 1882, having had eight sons and five daughters. His eldest son, John Patterson Cobbold, Esq., M.P. (born 1831, died 1875), had a son and heir, John Dupuis Cobbold, born in 1861, who is now of Holywells, Wise Bishop, and Capel Hall, and was one of his grandfather’s executors. The other executors were the testator’s sons, Thomas Clement Cobbold, C.B., born 1833; Nathaniel Fromanteel Cobbold, born 1839; Felix Thornley Cobbold, born 1841.
VIII. Dean of Dromore.
Very Rev. Jeffry Lefroy, son of Chief-Justice Lefroy, was born in 1809, and baptized in St. Anne’s Church, Dawson Street, Dublin, April 17. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and took the degree of M.A. in 1832. He married a cousin of Lord Ashtown, Helena, daughter of Rev. Frederick Stewart Trench, by Lady Helena Perceval, sister of the sixth Earl of Egmont. He was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1833, and became the Incumbent of Aghaderg (Loughbrickland) in County Down. He received many letters from his eminent father, to whom he was a congenial correspondent. [I may here remark that the Chief-Justice was a great student of the Bible, a study which he began at the age of nineteen. He writes on 10th August 1822, “I had from the year 1795, more or less, read the Scriptures, but not with faith, nor as a little child, but in the pride of a Socinian spirit, and consequently I remained long in the dark.” “In the year 1816 I first began to have any view of God’s true method of salvation for a sinner.”]
The Chief-Justice wrote to Rev. Jeffry Lefroy on 8th April 1833:—
- ↑ I am much indebted to a Memoir in Sunday at Home.
