John Mackarness

John Fielder Mackarness (3 December 1820 in Islington, London - 16 September 1889 in Eastbourne^[1]) was a Church of England bishop.

Mackarness was appointed Vicar of Tardebigge (1845–1855), Rector of Honiton (1855–1870) and finally Bishop of Oxford (1870–1889). He gave an annual prize for religious instruction at the Oxford Military College in Cowley and Oxford Oxfordshire from 1876 to 1896.

Personal life

Mackarness's parents were John Mackarness and Catherine Poynter Coxhead. He married Alethea Buchanan Coleridge on 7 August 1849 at Ottery Saint Mary, Devon.^[2] Together they had eight children. His wife was born in 1826 in London and died on 30 March 1909. Her parents were the Right Honourable Sir John Taylor Coleridge and Mary Buchanan.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Samuel Wilberforce	Bishop of Oxford 1870–1889	Succeeded by William Stubbs

Bishops of Oxford

Early modern	Robert King Thomas Goldwell Hugh Curwen John Underhill John Bridges John Howson Richard Corbet John Bancroft Robert Skinner William Paul Walter Blandford The Lord Crew Henry Compton John Fell Samuel Parker Timothy Hall John Hough William Talbot John Potter Thomas Secker John Hume Robert Lowth John Butler Edward Smallwell John Randolph

Late modern	Charles Moss William Jackson Edward Legge Charles Lloyd Richard Bagot Samuel Wilberforce John Mackarness William Stubbs Francis Paget Charles Gore Hubert Burge Thomas Strong Kenneth Kirk Harry Carpenter Kenneth Woollcombe Patrick Rodger Richard Harries John Pritchard

References

^ W. P. Courtney, John Mackarness, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17547
^ Rt. Rev. John Fielder Mackarness, thePeerage.com.

External links

MacKarness, John Fielder (1820-1889) bishop of Oxford, Janus, University of Cambridge