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English cleric (1821–1900)
Charles Wellington Furse
Charles Wellington Furse ,
MA ,
JP (born Johnson ; 16 April 1821 – 2 August 1900) was
Archdeacon of Westminster from 1894
[1] until his death.
[2]
Furse was the third son of Charles Wellington Johnson, of
Great Torrington , Devon,
[3] and his wife Theresa Furze. In 1854, he changed his surname from Johnson to Furse in 1854, to inherit from his maternal uncle John Furze (Furse). He was educated at
Eton and
Balliol College, Oxford .
[4] He was
ordained in 1848. After
curacies at St Andrew the Apostle,
Clewer
[5] and
Christ Church, Albany Street he was
Vicar of
Staines .
[6] He was then
Principal of
Cuddesdon Theological College
[7] and concurrently
Chaplain to the
Bishop of Oxford .
[8] He was the incumbent at
St John's, Smith Square , Westminster from 1883 until his appointment as
Archdeacon of Westminster .
[9]
Marriage and issue
On 24 February 1859, Furse married Jane Diana Monsell, second daughter of
John Samuel Bewley Monsell , vicar of Egham. They had ten children:
[3]
John Henry Monsell Furse (6 March 1860 – 5 April 1950), sculptor
Charles Cyril Furse (19 June 1861 – 21 March 1862)
Elizabeth Diana Furse (1862–1939), married
John Primatt Maud , Bishop of Kensington
Mary Theresa Furse (1863–1952), married
Charles Abraham , Bishop of Derby
Lt.-Gen. Sir
William Thomas Furse (1865–1953),
[10]
Charles Wellington Furse (1868–1904), painter
[11]
Rt. Rev.
Bolton Michael Furse (1870–1955), Bishop of Pretoria and Bishop of St. Albans
Margaret Furse
Edith Furse (1874–1960), married Cecil Lubbock, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
John Monsell Furse (1877–1888)
Jane died in March 1877,
[3] and on 7 January 1880 Furse married Gertrude Louisa Barnett, daughter of
Henry Barnett
MP , and had two more children:
[3]
Emily Katharine Furse (21 February 1881 – 8 July 1911)
Herbert Reynolds Furse (31 January 1887 – 1956)
References
^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence
The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Dec 12, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 34445
^ "Archdeacon Furse."
The Times (London, England), Friday, Aug 03, 1900; pg. 4; Issue 36211
^
a
b
c
d Bernard Burke
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of ..., Volume 1, (1894) , p. 524, at
Google Books
^
Foster, Joseph (1888–1892).
"Furse, Charles Wellington" .
Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via
Wikisource .
^
Geograph
^ 'CONSECRATION of the BISHOP of OXFORD'
The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, January 26, 1870; pg. 5; Issue 29995
^ 'Appointments'
The Morning Post (London, England), Saturday, December 27, 1873; pg. 5; Issue 31667
^
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p497: London, Horace Cox, 1898
^ ‘FURSE, Ven. Charles Wellington’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014
accessed 15 Oct 2017
^ "Obituary: Lt.-Gen. Sir William Furse".
The Times . 1 June 1953. p. 8.
^
"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/33299 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)