Charles Longley | |
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| Archbishop of Canterbury | |
 Portrait byGeorge Richmond | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Diocese | Canterbury |
| In office | 1862 – 27 October 1868 |
| Predecessor | John Bird Sumner |
| Successor | Archibald Campbell Tait |
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| Born | 28 July 1794 |
| Died | (1868-10-27)27 October 1868 (aged 74) |
| Buried | St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church,Addington, London |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Spouse | Hon. Caroline Sophia Parnell |
| Children | 7 |
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Charles Thomas Longley (28 July 1794 – 27 October 1868)[1] was a bishop in theChurch of England. He served as Headmaster of Harrow School, as inauguralBishop of Ripon, asBishop of Durham, asArchbishop of York, and then asArchbishop of Canterbury for six years from 20 October 1862 until his death.
He was born atRochester, Kent, the fifth son of the late John Longley,Recorder of Rochester,[2] and educated atWestminster School andChrist Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1812, graduatingB.A. 1815 (M.A. 1818),B.D. andD.D. 1829.[3]
At Christ Church, Longley was reader in Greek 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8, and proctor 1827.[3] He was ordained in 1818, and was appointed vicar ofCowley, Oxford, in 1823. In 1827, he received the rectory ofWest Tytherley,Hampshire, and two years later he was elected headmaster ofHarrow School. He held this office until 1836, when he was consecrated bishop of the new see ofRipon. In 1856 he becameBishop of Durham, and in 1860 he becameArchbishop of York.
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In 1862, he succeededJohn Bird Sumner as Archbishop of Canterbury. Soon afterwards the questions connected with the deposition ofJohn William Colenso were referred to Longley but, while regarding Colenso's opinions as heretical and his deposition as justifiable, he refused to pronounce upon the legal difficulties of the case.
The chief event of his primacy was the meeting atLambeth, in 1867, of the firstPan-Anglican conference of British, colonial and foreign bishops. His published works included numerous sermons and addresses. He died atAddington Park, nearCroydon.
Like Sumner, he was a member of theCanterbury Association from 27 March 1848.[4]
As Headmaster of Harrow School, he married the Hon. Caroline Sophia Parnell on 15 December 1831. Her brother the Hon. George Damer Parnell was the curate of Ash, 1859–1861. Parnell was the daughter ofHenry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton.[5] They had seven children, three sons and four daughters,[6] namely:
1.Henry Longley (28 November 1833 – 25 December 1899), served asChief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales.[7] He married Diana Eliza Davenport (fl. 1905), daughter of John Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire, on 17 September 1861.[6]
2. George Longley, born 8 March 1835 at Harrow, Middlesex.
3. Mary Henrietta Longley (born 2 May 1837 in Ramsgate, Kent) married – on 9 December 1858 – George Winfield Bourke (died 9 October 1903), Honorary Chaplain to the Monarch, and son ofRobert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo. Their only child wasWalter Longley Bourke, 8th Earl of Mayo (28 November 1859 – 1939); from 1891 to 1903, he was a Trustee of theBridgewater Estates. Walter had married in 1887, and had four sons and two daughters, by 1905.[6] Walter's second son wasUlick Henry Bourke, 9th Earl of Mayo (1890–1962), and third son Bryan Longley Bourke (1897–1961) was father ofTerence Bourke, 10th Earl of Mayo (1929–2006), himself father ofthe present Earl.
4. Frances Elizabeth Longley (born 3 July 1839)
5. Arthur Longley (born 1841 in Ripon, Yorkshire)
6. Caroline Georgina Longley (died 30 October 1867) married, on 6 November 1862,[8] (as his 1st wife) EdwardLevett (18 December 1832 – 28 December 1899), major in the10th Royal Hussars, ofWychnor Park andPackington Hall,Staffordshire, third son of John Levett and his wife Sophia Kennedy, granddaughter ofArchibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassilis. They had two daughters, both of whom married and had children.[9]
7. Rosamond Esther Harriett Longley (died 1936) married, 1870, Cecil Thomas Parker (1845–1931), 2nd son ofThomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield by his 2nd wife Mary Frances Grosvenor, a sister ofHugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, and had four sons and two daughters. Their elder daughterCaroline Beatrix Parker (1873–1961) married, 1895,William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman, of Leigh, Shropshire in 1929, PC (1864–1935), only child of John Orlando Bridgeman, Rector of Weston-under-Lizard (himself 3rd and youngest son ofGeorge Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford) by his wife Marianne Caroline Clive, daughter of William Clive, and left children, including the present Viscount.[10] The fourth and youngest sonWilfrid Parker (1883–1966) becameBishop of Pretoria, South Africa. A granddaughter (by the 3rd son Geoffrey) Isolda Rosamond Parker (1918–2014) married, 1940,David Pollock, 2nd Viscount Hanworth (1916–1996) and is mother of the present peer.[11]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Longley, Charles Thomas".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 984.| Church of England titles | ||
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| New diocese | Bishop of Ripon 1836–1856 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Bishop of Durham 1856–1860 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Archbishop of York 1860–1862 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Archbishop of Canterbury 1862–1868 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Head Master ofHarrow School 1829–1836 | Succeeded by |
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