Henry Law

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The Very Rev Henry Law was Dean of Gloucester from 1862 until his death on 25 November 1884.^[1]

Biography

Law was born at Kelshall rectory, Hertfordshire on 29 September 1797. He was the third son of George Law who was Bishop of Chester from 1812 to 1824 and later Bath and Wells until his death in 1845.^[2] Henry Law was thus the grandson of Edmund Law who had been the Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1756 to 1768 and then Bishop of Carlisle until his death in 1787.^[3]

Henry Law was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge and became a Fellow in 1821. Later that year he was ordained and held incumbencies in Manchester then Childwall. He was Archdeacon of Richmond from 1824 to 1826 and Archdeacon of Wells from 1828 until his appointment to the Deanery.^[4]

↑ THE LATE DEAN LAW The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Dec 30, 1884; pg. 8; Issue 313
↑ Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post Bristol, England), Wednesday, November 26, 1884; Issue 11400
↑ B. W. Young, 'Law, Edmund (1703–1787)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16141, accessed 4 April 2013]
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Church of England titles
Preceded by Edward Rice	Dean of Gloucester 1862–1884	Succeeded by Edward Bickersteth

v t e Deans of Gloucester

Early modern	William Jennings John Man Thomas Cooper Lawrence Humphrey Anthony Rudd Griffith Lewis Thomas Moreton Richard Field William Laud Richard Senhouse Thomas Winniffe George Warburton Accepted Frewen William Brough Thomas Vyner Robert Frampton Thomas Marshall William Jane Knightly Chetwood John Waugh John Frankland Peter Allix Daniel Newcombe Josiah Tucker

Late modern	John Luxmoore John Plumptre Edward Rice Henry Law Edward Bickersteth Montagu Butler Donald Spence Jones Henry Gee Harold Costley-White Seiriol Evans Gilbert Thurlow Kenneth Jennings Nicholas Bury Stephen Lake

v t e Diocese of Gloucester

Gloucester Cathedral Bishopscourt, Gloucester Church House, Gloucester

Office holders	The Bishop of Gloucester, Michael Perham The Bishop suffragan of Tewkesbury, Martyn Snow AEO: Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet The Dean of Gloucester, Stephen Lake The Archdeacon of Cheltenham, Robert Springett The Archdeacon of Gloucester, Jackie Searle

Historic offices	Archdeacon of Cirencester (1882–1919; renamed to Archdeacon of Cheltenham)

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