George Bland Explained

George Bland[1] (1806–1880) was a nineteenth-century English clergyman.[2] He was Archdeacon of Lindisfarne[3] then Archdeacon of Northumberland.[4]

Life

Bland's mother was a sister of Edward Maltby, Bishop of Chichester then Durham.[5] He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1831.[6] He began his ecclesiastical career as Domestic Chaplain to his uncle at Chichester[7] after which he was the incumbent at St Peter, Slinfold.[8] In 1844 Maltby appointed him Archdeacon of Lindisfarne.[9] He married Frances Sibyl Collinson in 1846.[10]

He was transferred to Northumberland (to which a residentiary canonry at Durham Cathedral was annexed) in 1853, gaining also the Rectory of St Mary-le-Bow, Durham in 1856.[11] and died in post on 17 February 1880.[12] His wife died in 1897.[13]

Notes and References

  1. http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ead/pho/mipall.xml Durham University Library Special Collections Catalogue
  2. https://archive.today/20130423201107/http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='Longley/8/153-154') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  3. http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ead/cat/dcladdms.xml Durham Cathedral Library Additional Manuscripts
  4. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=109-mss_3&cid=28-3#28-3 National Archives
  5. ‘LOCAL NOTES’ The Newcastle Courant etc (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England), Friday, February 20, 1880; Issue 10703
  6. ‘Ordinations Lincoln’ Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, March 12, 1831; Issue 4
  7. ‘THE CHURCH, The Essex Standard, and Colchester and County Advertiser (Colchester, England), Saturday, October 15, 1831; Issue 41
  8. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/52711 Geograph
  9. [The Times]
  10. Web site: Yonge Letters . 2013-04-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131212164305/http://www.yongeletters.com/people?person=2326 . 2013-12-12 . dead .
  11. Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1860 (p. 55)
  12. ‘SUMMARY OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS’ The Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Wednesday, February 18, 1880; Issue 4677
  13. http://www.ayeltd.biz/familyhistory/gp678.html ayeltd

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