Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter)

The Right Reverend Edward Henry Bickersteth
Bishop of Exeter

Diocese	Diocese of Exeter
In office	1885–1900
Predecessor	Frederick Temple
Successor	Herbert Edward Ryle
Other posts	Dean of Gloucester (1885)
Personal details
Born	(1825-01-25)25 January 1825 Islington, England
Died	16 May 1906(1906-05-16) (aged 81) London, England
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	(1) Rosa Bignold (2) Ellen Susanna Bickersteth
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

Edward Henry Bickersteth (25 January 1825 – 16 May 1906) was a bishop in the Church of England.

Life

Memorial in Exeter Cathedral

Edward Henry Bickersteth was born in Islington, the son of Edward Bickersteth, Rector of Watton, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in Classics 1847, and proceeded M.A. in 1850.^[1] and was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry in 1844, 1845 and 1846.^[2]

On taking Holy Orders in 1848, he became curate of Banningham, Norfolk, and then of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. He was called to the Rectory of Hinton Martell in 1852 and to the Vicarage of Christ Church, Hampstead in 1855, a position in which he remained for 30 years.

In 1885 he became Dean of Gloucester and in the same year was appointed Bishop of Exeter. Bickersteth was awarded an honorary D.D. by Cambridge University in 1885.

Support for Overseas Mission Work

Following in the footsteps of his father, Bickersteth undertook a number of extended overseas mission tours in support of the work of the Church Mission Society and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. In 1880 he travelled to India and the Middle East. 1891 he travelled to Japan on a visit to the mission churches of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, reuniting with his eldest son Edward, then serving as the first Bishop of South Tokyo. Arriving in Yokohama on 23 September 1891,^[3] the travel journals of his daughter, Mary Jane Bickersteth,^[4] include detailed descriptions of the Anglican church's mission work in Japan as well as visits to sites such as the Shrines and Temples of Nikkō and the experience of surviving the strong Mino-Owari earthquake at Osaka on 28 October 1891.^[5]

Bickersteth edited hymnals and was an accomplished poet. Beginning with a volume of poems in 1849, he published extensively. His Hymnal Companion called forth from Dr. Julian, editor of A Dictionary of Hymnology, these high words of praise: "Of its kind and from its theological standpoint, as an evangelical hymn book, it is in poetic grace, literary excellence, and lyric beauty, the finest collection in the Anglican Church;" and the author's contributions to this volume are pronounced "very beautiful and of much value."

Family

Bickersteth married twice: (1) in February 1848 to his cousin Rosa, daughter of Sir Samuel Bignold of Norwich; she died in 1873, having borne him six sons and ten daughters; (2) in 1876 his cousin Ellen Susanna, daughter of Robert Bickersteth of Liverpool, who survived him without issue.^[6]

References

↑ "Bickersteth, Edward Henry (BKRT842EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ University of Cambridge (1859). A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge (PDF). Cambridge: W. Metcalfe. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
↑ Aglionby, Francis Keys (1907). The Life of Edward Henry Bickersteth DD, Bishop and Poet. Wycliffe College Library, Trinity College, Toronto: Longmans Green and Co, London. p. 156. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Bickersteth, Mary Jane (1893). Japan as We Saw It. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company.
↑ Aglionby, The Life of Edward Henry Bickersteth DD, p.160.
↑ Lee, Sidney (1912). Dictionary of National Biography, Second Supplement, volume 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Julian, John (1907). A Dictionary of Hymnology. London: John Murray. pp. 141, 142.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library. "Hymn Writers of the Church". Retrieved 2007-01-30.
Aglionby, Francis Keyes. "The life of Edward Henry Bickersteth, D.D" (pdf copy of book). Canadian Library archives. Retrieved 2007-01-30.

External links

Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

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Church of England titles
Preceded by Henry Law	Dean of Gloucester 1885	Succeeded by Montagu Butler
Preceded by Frederick Temple	Bishop of Exeter 1885–1900	Succeeded by Herbert Edward Ryle

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

Bishops of Exeter
Bishops of Crediton	Werstan (bishop at Tawton) Putta (bishop at Tawton) Eadwulf Æthelgar Ælfwold I Sideman Ælfric Ælfwold II Ælfwold III Eadnoth Lyfing of Winchester Leofric see translated to Exeter
High Medieval	Leofric Osbern FitzOsbern William Warelwast Robert Warelwast Robert of Chichester Bartholomew Iscanus John the Chanter Henry Marshal Simon of Apulia William Briwere Richard Blund Walter Branscombe Peter Quinel Thomas Bitton
Late Medieval	Walter de Stapledon James Berkeley John Godeley John Grandisson Thomas de Brantingham Edmund Stafford John Catterick Edmund Lacey John Hales George Neville John Booth Peter Courtenay Richard Foxe Oliver King Richard Redman
Early modern	John Arundel Hugh Oldham John Vesey Myles Coverdale John Vesey James Turberville William Alley William Bradbridge John Woolton Gervase Babington William Cotton Valentine Cary Joseph Hall Ralph Brownrigg John Gauden Seth Ward Anthony Sparrow Thomas Lamplugh Sir Jonathan Trelawney Bt Ofspring Blackall Lancelot Blackburne Stephen Weston Nicholas Clagett George Lavington Frederick Keppel John Ross William Buller Reginald Courtenay
Late modern	John Fisher George Pelham William Carey Christopher Bethell Henry Phillpotts Frederick Temple Edward Bickersteth Herbert Edward Ryle Archibald Robertson Lord William Cecil Charles Curzon Robert Mortimer Eric Mercer Hewlett Thompson Michael Langrish John Ford (acting) Nick McKinnel (acting) Robert Atwell

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