Charles Furse (priest)

Charles Wellington Furse, MA, JP (1821-1900) was Archdeacon of Westminster from 1894[1] until his death.[2]

Furse was educated at Eton and Balliol.[3] He was ordained in 1848. After curacies at St Andrew the Apostle, Clewer[4] and Christ Church, Albany Street he was Vicar of Staines.[5] He was then Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon[6] and concurrently Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford.[7] He was the incumbent at St John the t Westminster from 1883 until his appointment as Archdeacon of Westminster.[8]

He died on died 2 August 1900:his son was a noted artist.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Dec 12, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 34445
  2. ↑ Archdeacon Furse. The Times (London, England), Friday, Aug 03, 1900; pg. 4; Issue 36211
  3. ↑ Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886: Their Parentage, Birthplace, and Year of Birth, with a Record of Their Degrees: E-K Part II Vol ii p501 Foster, J Online version
  4. ↑ Geograph
  5. ↑ 'CONSECRATION of the BISHOP of OXFORD' The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, January 26, 1870; pg. 5; Issue 29995
  6. ↑ 'Appointments' The Morning Post (London, England), Saturday, December 27, 1873; pg. 5; Issue 31667
  7. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1885 p497: London, Horace Cox, 1898
  8. ↑ ‘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
  9. ↑ Kenneth McConkey, ‘Furse, Charles Wellington (1868–1904)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 accessed 15 Oct 2017
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Frederick Farrar		 Archdeacon of Westminster
1894–1900		 Succeeded by
Basil Wilberforce



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