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Billing was born in [[Maidstone]], Kent in 1834<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-robert-claudius-billing-1834-1898-anglican-suffragan-bishop-of-bedford-41279347.html|title=Stock Photo - Robert Claudius Billing, 1834 - 1898. Anglican Suffragan Bishop of Bedford|last=Limited|first=Alamy|website=Alamy|language=en|access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref> the eldest of 5 children. His mother was Ann (nee Green) |
Billing was born in [[Maidstone]], Kent in 1834<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-robert-claudius-billing-1834-1898-anglican-suffragan-bishop-of-bedford-41279347.html|title=Stock Photo - Robert Claudius Billing, 1834 - 1898. Anglican Suffragan Bishop of Bedford|last=Limited|first=Alamy|website=Alamy|language=en|access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref> the eldest of 5 children. His mother was Ann (nee Green), originally from Nottingham, and his father was Rev. Robert Billing<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/robert_billing#|title=Robert Billing - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage|website=www.myheritage.com|access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref>, recorded in the 1851 census as Perpetual Curate and Master of the Grammar School in [[Wye, Kent|Wye]] in Kent.<ref>His father was the Rev R. Billing, sometime [[Vicar]] of [[Wye, Kent]] > [[Who's Who|“Who was Who” 1897-2007]] London, [[A & C Black]], 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8860|title=1851 England Census - Ancestry.co.uk|website=search.ancestry.co.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-09-01}}</ref> |
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Billing married Harriet Fowler Price, daughter of George Price of Langford, Somerset |
Billing married Harriet Fowler Price (1831-1899), daughter of George Price of Langford, Somerset on the 1st January 1862 at Churchill, Somerset.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000407/18980225/002/0002|title=Western Gazette|last=|first=|date=25 February 1898|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> They had five children, one daughter and four sons. Claudine Margaret (1865–1936), Robert Percy (1866–1891), Herbert Lindsey (1869–1900) and Arthur Hans (1872–1915) were all born during the family’s time in Louth, Lincolnshire. Their final son Aubrey Field (1874–1934) was born in Islington, London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/82726860/person/420044209593/facts?_phsrc=Ifd33&_phstart=successSource|title=Harriet Fowler Price|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:28, 1 September 2018
Robert Claudius Billing | |
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| Born | Maidstone, Kent |
| Died | 1898 Englefield Green, Windsor, Berkshire |
| Spouse | Harriet Fowler Price |
| Children | Robert Percy Billing |
Robert Claudius Billing was an Anglican Suffragan Bishop of Bedford [1] from 1888 to 1898.[2]
Early Life
Billing was born in Maidstone, Kent in 1834[3] the eldest of 5 children. His mother was Ann (nee Green), originally from Nottingham, and his father was Rev. Robert Billing[4], recorded in the 1851 census as Perpetual Curate and Master of the Grammar School in Wye in Kent.[5][6]
Education
He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, matriculating (enrolling) on 25th October 1853 aged 19, graduating and being ordained in 1857.[7]
Career
Billing began his career with a curacy at St Peter’s, Colchester followed by a period as Secretary of the Church Missionary Society. In 1863 he became Vicar of Louth[8] the living consisting of a vicarage endowed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners with £300 a year (in 1872), in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln.[9]
He became was Rural Dean of Spitalfields in 1878[9] and then Suffragan Bishop of Bedford in 1888.
Personal life
Billing married Harriet Fowler Price (1831-1899), daughter of George Price of Langford, Somerset on the 1st January 1862 at Churchill, Somerset.[10] They had five children, one daughter and four sons. Claudine Margaret (1865–1936), Robert Percy (1866–1891), Herbert Lindsey (1869–1900) and Arthur Hans (1872–1915) were all born during the family’s time in Louth, Lincolnshire. Their final son Aubrey Field (1874–1934) was born in Islington, London.[11]
Death
He died in Windsor[12] (technically) in post on 21 February 1898,[13] having ceased active work in 1895.[14]
His wife Harriet died on March 21st 1899 at Tilehurst Villa, Sion Hill, Bath.
Memorial
A memorial to Billing can be seen in the Crypt at St Paul’s Cathedral.[15]
Notes
- ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
- ^ ”Church History in Queen Victoria's Reign” Fowler,M: Whitefish Kessinger Publishing, 2005 ISBN 1-4179-7356-0
- ^ Limited, Alamy. "Stock Photo - Robert Claudius Billing, 1834 - 1898. Anglican Suffragan Bishop of Bedford". Alamy. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "Robert Billing - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage". www.myheritage.com. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ His father was the Rev R. Billing, sometime Vicar of Wye, Kent > “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ "1851 England Census - Ancestry.co.uk". search.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ "Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886". search.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
- ^ a b "U.K., City and County Directories, 1600s-1900s". search.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ "Western Gazette". 25 February 1898.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Harriet Fowler Price".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915". search.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ Death Of The Bishop Of Bedford. The Times Tuesday, Feb 22, 1898; pg. 4; Issue 35446; col F
- ^ His duties being taken on by the Bishop of Stepney > Fowler (ibid)
- ^ "Memorials of St. Paul's Cathedral" Sinclair,W.M: London, Chapman and Hall,1909
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