Brough Maltby

The Venerable Canon Brough Maltby (29 September 1826 – 30 March 1894^[1]) was Archdeacon of Nottingham.^[2]

Family

Brough Maltby was born in London in 1826, the son of Charles Langley Maltby (1816 – 1858) and Mary Watson, but his family moved to Southwell very shortly thereafter. He was educated at Southwell Minster School and was a chorister in the choir of Southwell Minster. He went on to St. John's College, Cambridge and graduated in 1850 with BA, and 1853 as MA.

He married Isabella Chadwick, daughter of John Chadwick of Oakwood, Rochdale, on 24 October 1850. They had the following children:

• Brough Maltby (b. 6 May 1852)
• James Chadwick Maltby (b. 1854)
• Mary Maltby (b. 1855)
• Isabella Maltby
• Charles Langley Maltby (1858 - 1936)
• Edward Secker Maltby (b. 1860)
• Margaret Maltby (b. 1863)

Career

He was ordained deacon in Hereford on 26 May 1850, and made a priest on 15 June 1851.

He was Curate of Westbury in Shropshire in 1850, curate of the Church of St. John of Beverley, Whatton from 1851 – 1864, Curate of Sibthorpe 1855 – 1864.He became vicar of St. Peter's Church, Farndon in Nottinghamshire in 1864 and remained there until his death in 1894. He was rural dean of Newark from 1876 – 1894, Prebendary and Canon of Lincoln Cathedral 1871 – 1894, Chaplain to the Bishop of Southwell in 1884,^[3] and Archdeacon of Nottingham^[4] 1878 – 1894.

Whilst at Farndon he undertook an extensive restoration of the church and is commemorated in the book "Brough Maltby; Archdeacon, Church Restorer" by Rev. John Quarrell (2001)

A stained glass window in Southwell Minster was dedicated in 1910 in his memory.

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