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• Title	Right Rev.
  Birth	3 Nov 1802	Sandleford, Berkshire, England
  Christened	12 Aug 1803	Chilbolton
  Gender	Male
  Died	14 Oct 1895	Basle, Switzerlan
  Buried	Chichester Cathedral
  Person ID	I1129	Durnford
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2010 23:44:16
  Father	Durnford Richard, b. 1766
  Mother	Mount Louisa, b. Abt 1781
  Family ID	F0421	Group Sheet
  Family	Keate Emma, b. 18 Dec 1812
  Married	6 Oct 1840	Hartley Wespall, Hants   [1]
  Notes	At Hartley Wespall, Hants, the Rev. Richard Durnford, M.A. Rector of Middleton, Lanc. to Emma, fourth dau. of the Rev. Dr. Deate, Canon of Windsor.[Gentlemen's Magazine, July to December 1840]
  Children	1. Durnford Mary   2. Durnford Fanny Louisa, b. 16 Jan 1842, Rectory, Middleton, Lancs   3. Durnford Richard M., b. 28 Jun 1843   4. Durnford Walter, b. 21 Feb 1847, Rectory, Middleton, Lancs
  Family ID	F0419	Group Sheet

• Photos		Bishop Richard Durnford
  		Bishop Richard Durnford
  Headstones		Bishop Richard Durnford's tomb at Chichester Cathedral

• Notes

  Died while returning from holiday on Lake Como "A Memoir of Bishop Durnford" published in 1899 by John Murray, Albemarle St., London. The full title inside is "A memoir of Richard Durnford, D.D., sometime bishop of Chichester, with selections from his correspondence" and edited by W.R.W. Stephens, Dean of Winchester. The printers were Spottiswoode & Co., New-Street Square, Longdon. The Bishop's son Walter has a portrait in King's College, Cambridge. He was an avid fisherman and kept a detailed fishing diary. The diary was published 100 years later in 1911. Father was the first to take up the cloth in the family. Grandfather lived in Woodmansterne, Surrey, and also owned property in Dulwich. Father's great-grandfather Richard had made the family's fortune in the already long established family business as pinmakers in Camberwell, London, with offices in Gracechurch St. They had a practical monopoly with their brand "Durnford's London Pins". (this must have been the era of Pepys and the great fire.) Obituary: London, Oct 14--The death is announced of Right Rev. Richard Durnford, D.D. Bishop of Chichester. The Right Rev. Richard Durnford was born at Sandleford, Berkshire, in 1802. He was educated at Eaton. He was a contributor to the Etonian, edited by Mackworth Praed, the poet, who was almost as notable as Samuel Rogers, and who, like Rogers, was a banker. Richard Durnford passed from Eton to Oxford, where he was elected a Demy and a Fellow of Magdalen College, where he obtained a first class in classical honors. He was appointed rector of Middleton, Lancashire, in 1835: Archdeacon of Manchester, in 1887, Canon of Manchester Cathedral in 1868, and Bishop of Chichester in 1870, on the recommendation of Mr. Gladstone. He devoted himself to the prominent movements of the time within the Established Church, especially temperance, middle-class education, and the organized work of women. He was published sermons and charges. Obit from the Pall Mall Gazette: To have been born in 1802 and to have lived till 1895; to have been Mr. Gladstone's senior at Eton: to have been flogged by Keate, and subsequently to have married his daughter; to have taken his degree while Geroge IV was King; to have been ordained in the year that William IV came to the throne: to have been a Bishop for twenty-seven years--these achievements would have established a record for Dr. Durnford had he no other claims to fame. He was a churchman of the old school of "high and dry" who, caring for the due and proper performance of the ritual of the Church, cared more for the things which the ritual symbolized. He took very literally the pastoral view of a clergyman's functions, and he busied himself more with the welfare of his own flock than with the conflicts that were disturbing other sheepfolds. There were never any troubles in his parish or in his diocese. And so his name scarcely came before the public. Yet he was a ruler and those over whom he ruled so long will deeply regret the disappearance--even at the ripe age of ninety-two--of him who was till yesterday, Bishop of Chichester.

• Sources

  [S43801] Gentlemen's Magazine