Bishop of Marlborough
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The Bishop of Marlborough was an episcopal title used by a Church of England suffragan bishop, firstly in the 16th century for the Diocese of Salisbury, and secondly in the late 19th and early 20th century for the Diocese of London.[1][2]
The title takes its name after the town of Marlborough, Wiltshire and was first created under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534. After the 1560s, the title fell into abeyance until it was revived in 1888, at the suggestion of the then Bishop of London,[3] to assist in the running of the rapidly expanding Diocese of London.[4]
List of bishops of Marlborough
| Bishops of Marlborough | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
| 1537 | ? 1561 | Thomas Morley | Also recorded as Thomas Calne and Thomas Bickley. Formerly Abbot of Stanley;[5][6] consecrated on 4 November 1537; possibly died in 1561;[7] |
| fl. 1560s | Thomas Lancaster [8] | Formerly Bishop of Kildare; acted as suffragan bishop of Marlborough in the 1560s; later became Archbishop of Armagh in 1568. | |
| unknown | 1888 | in abeyance | |
| 1888 | 1918 | Alfred Earle[9] | He was simultaneously Rector of St Botolph's, Bishopsgate;[10] he retained the Bishop of Marlborough title after he was appointed Dean of Exeter in 1900.[11] |
| 1919 | present | in abeyance | |
| Source(s):[1] | |||
References
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- ↑ National archive data
- ↑ "It was Bishop Temple who obtained the Suffragan for West London, bringing up his old friend Archdeacon Earle from Devonshire, with the titular designation of Bishop of Marlborough" Papers pertaining to the Archdeacons of London
- ↑ Materials within The National Archive
- ↑ The Abbey of Stanley. British History Online. Retrieved 1 January 2009.
- ↑ Cistercian Abbeys: Stanley. Retrieved 1 January 2009.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lancaster, Thomas (d.1583) in the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), a publication now in the public domain.
- ↑ Papers of Alfred Earle
- ↑ London, Bankside Press, 2003 ISBN 0-9545705-0-2
- ↑ Deans of Exeter. Retrieved 1 January 2009.
