Edward Scobell (priest)

Memorial to Edward Scobell in Gloucester Cathedral

Edward Chessall Scobell (27 January 1850 – 8 February 1917) was an Anglican priest who served as Archdeacon of Gloucester[1] from 1903 until his death.[2]

He was born into an ecclesiastical family, son of Sanford George Scobell, vicar of Market Rasen.[3][4] Educated at Marlborough College, he attended Pembroke College, Oxford and was ordained in 1874.[5] After curacies in Horsham and Gloucester he was a Lecturer at Gloucester Theological College from 1877 to 1881. After this he was Vicar of St Luke's, Gloucester (1881[6]–89); Examining Chaplain to the Bishops of Gloucester (1883–1917); Rector of Upton St Leonards[7] (1889–1912); Rural Dean of Gloucester (1890–1903); and Residentiary Canon of Gloucester Cathedral (1912[8]–1917).

References

  1. ^ The London Gazette
  2. ^ "Archdeacon E. C. Scobell". The Times. No. 41398. London, England. 9 February 1917. p. 9.
  3. ^ ‘SCOBELL, Ven. Edward Chessall’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 7 April 2013
  4. ^ s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Scobell, Sanford George
  5. ^ "University and City Intelligence". Jackson's Oxford Journal. No. 6352. Oxford, England. 26 December 1874.
  6. ^ "Eccleiastical Intelligence". The Morning Post. No. 34102. London, England. 13 October 1881. p. 2.
  7. ^ National Archives
  8. ^ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence". The Times. No. 39850. London, England. 19 March 1912. p. 6.
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