Right Reverend Edwyn Hoskyns and Mrs Hoskyns, St Peter's Church, Burnley

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322816

Reference identifier

EBU-U01-J2-315-3

Title

Right Reverend Edwyn Hoskyns and Mrs Hoskyns, St Peter's Church, Burnley

Place

Burnley

Personal names

Right Reverend Edwyn Hoskyns and Mrs Mary Constance Maude Hoskyns

General notes

Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, 12th Baronet (22 May 1851 – 2 December 1925). He was Vicar of St Clement, Notting Hill from 1880 to 1886, Rector of St Dunstan's, Stepney from 1886 to 1895, Vicar of Bolton Parish Church from 1895 to 1901, and an Honorary Canon of Manchester Cathedral. In September 1901 he was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Burnley, and he was consecrated as bishop in York Minster on 18 October 1901. He was appointed Bishop of Southwell in 1904, was offered but turned down the position of Archbishop of Cape Town in 1908, and remained Bishop of Southwell until his death in 1925.

His wife, who he married in 1883, was Mary Constance Maude (May) Benson (1853-1939).

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Year of image

Early 20th Century

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Subjects

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