Charles Fotherby

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Charles Fotherby (ca. 1549 – 1619) was a Church of England clergyman who became Dean of Canterbury Cathedral (1615–1619).^[1]

Life

Fotherby's date of birth is not recorded but he is stated to have been 70 when he died. His father was Martin Fotherby of Great Grimsby in Lincolnshire.^[2]^[3] His younger brother, Dr Martin Fotherby (c.1560-1620), was also a prebendary of Canterbury, and later bishop of Salisbury.

He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge (sizar 1573, scholar 1575, B.A. 1576/77, M.A. 1580, B.D. 1587). He became a fellow of Trinity in 1579.^[2] He was vicar of several Kentish parishes and became Archdeacon of Canterbury and a prebendary of the Canterbury Cathedral in 1595 and Dean of Canterbury in 1615.

He married Cecilia Walker of Cambridge, by whom he had ten children, but only his eldest son, John, and four daughters survived him.^[4]

He died in 1619 and was buried in the Lady Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral.His monument is described as 'a bone-encrusted tomb-chest [which] is a fine example of that obsessive early seventeenth-century morbidity which repelled later, more squeamish observers'.^[5]

As Dean, he is recorded as reinvigorating the musical life of the Cathedral.^[6]

Career

date	office	reference
1587–1592	Vicar of Chislet (Kent)	Venn, p. 165
1587	Vicar of Deal (Kent)	Venn, p. 165
1592–1619	Vicar of Aldington (Kent)	Venn, p. 165
1595–1600	Vicar of Teynham (Kent)	Venn, p. 165
1595–1619	Archdeacon of Canterbury	Fasti, III, iii. 15
1595–1615	Canon of 4th prebend, Canterbury Cathedral	Fasti, III, iii. 23
1600–1619	Rector of Bishopsbourne (Kent)	Venn, p. 165
1615–1619	Dean of Canterbury	Fasti, III, iii. 12

References

↑ Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Series 1541-1857, III, iii. 12
↑ 2.0 2.1 Venn, John; Venn, J.A., eds. (1922). "Fotherby, Charles". Alumni Cantabrigienses (Part 1) 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 165 – via Internet Archive.
↑ "Fotherby, Charles (FTRY573C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ J. Meadows Cowper, The lives of the deans of Canterbury, 1541 to 1900. Canterbury: Cross & Jackman, 1900, p. 67.
↑ A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsay, M. Sparks. (OUP 1995, revised edition 2002) 521.
↑ A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsay, M. Sparks. (OUP 1995, revised edition 2002) 441.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Thomas Nevile	Dean of Canterbury 1615-1619	Succeeded by John Boys

v t e Deans of Canterbury

Early modern	Nicholas Wotton Thomas Godwin Richard Rogers Thomas Nevile Charles Fotherby John Boys Isaac Bargrave George Aglionby Thomas Turner John Tillotson John Sharp George Hooper George Stanhope Elias Sydall John Lynch William Freind John Potter Brownlow North John Moore The Hon James Cornwallis George Horne William Buller Folliott Cornewall

Late modern	Thomas Powys Gerrard Andrewes Hugh Percy Richard Bagot William Lyall Henry Alford Robert Payne Smith Frederic Farrar Henry Wace George Bell Dick Sheppard Hewlett Johnson Ian White-Thomson Victor de Waal John Simpson Robert Willis

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