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662 BISHOPS. The Diocese, founded in 1 109, includes Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, in Suffolk. ARMS OF THE SEE, Gules : three ducal coronets, two and one, or. Palace, Ely. Town Residence, 37, Dover-street, W. EXETER, LORD BISHOP OF. The Right Rev. FREDERICK TEMPLE, D.D., son of the late Major Temple, some time Governor of Sierra Leone. Born 1821; was educated at Blundell's Foundation Grammar School, Tiverton, and at' Balliol College, Oxford, (B A. 1842, M.A. 1846, D.D. 1858) ; was Principal of the Government Training College, at Kneller- hall, near Twickenham, 1846 55; one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, 1855 8; was appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty 1856, and Head Master of Rugby School, 1858. Consecrated 61st Bishop of Exeter, 1869 ; is Patron of 42 Livings, the Precentorship, Chancellor- ship, Treasurership, Subdeanery, 24 Prebends in his Cathedral, and the Archdeaconries of Exeter, Cornwall, Totnes, and Barnstaple. The -Bishopric comprises the two counties of Devon and Cornwall, which formed separate Sees till their union in 1032, when the seat of the joint see was fixed at Exeter. ARMS OF THE SEE, Gules : two keys endorsed in saltire, or, surmounted by a sword erect in pale, argent, and hilt, or. Palace Exeter. Club, Athenaeum. GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL, LORD BISHOP OF. The Right Rev. CHARLES JOHN ELLICOTT, D.D' son of the Rev. C. S. Ellicott, Rector of Whitwell* near Stamford. Born 1819 ; was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, (B.A. as Senior Optime, and second class in the Classical Tripos, 1841, Mem- bers' Prizeman, 1841,Hulsean Prizeman, 1842, M.A. 1844. D.D. 1861), and was Fellow of his College ; was Rector of Pilton, Rutland, 1848 ; Hulsean Pro- fcssci of Divinity at Cambridge, 1860 1, and Pro- fessor of Divinity at King's College, London, 1858 63 ; Dean of Exeter 1861 3 ; is D.D. of the University of Cambridge. Consecrated 31st Bishop of Gloucester, and 47th Bishop of Bristol, 1863 : s Patron of 80 Livings, and the two Archdeaconries of Gloucester and Bristol: married (1848) Constantia Ann, daughter of Admiral Becher, R.N., and has issue, living, Son, Arthur Becher, b. 184Q ; was educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Daughters, Florence, b. 1850 ; m. 1874, J. Amory Travers, Esq., of Warnicombe Hill, Tiverton. Rosalind Frances, b. 1857- The See of Gloucester, (formerly part of the diocese of Worcester), is one of the six Bishoprics created by Henry VIII. in 1541 ; that of Bristol is another. The two Bishoprics were united in 1836. ARMS OF THE SEE, Azure : two keys, endorsed, in saltire, argent, impaling, sable, three ducal coronets in pale, or. Palace, Gloucester. Town Residence, 35 , Great Cumberland Place, Hyde Park. Club, Athenaeum .