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CHARLES RICHARD SUMNER (1790-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 83 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:RICHARD See also:SUMNER (1790-1874)  , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:Kenilworth on the 22nd of See also:November 1790, and was educated at See also:Eton and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge . He graduated B.A. in 1814, M.A. in 1817, and was ordained See also:deacon and See also:priest . In the two winters of 1814-1816 he ministered to the English See also:congregation at See also:Geneva, and from 1816 to 1821 was See also:curate of Highclere, See also:Hampshire . In 182o See also:George IV. wished to appoint him See also:canon of See also:Windsor, but the See also:prime See also:minister, See also:Lord See also:Liverpool, objected; See also:Sumner received instead a royal chaplaincy and librarianship, and other preferments quickly followed, till in 1826 he was consecrated bishop of See also:Llandaff and in 1827 bishop of See also:Winchester . In his See also:long See also:administration of his latter See also:diocese he was most energetic, tactful and munificent . Though evangelical in his views he by no means confined his patronage to that school . In 1869 he resigned his see, but continued to live at the See also:official See also:residence at See also:Farnham until his See also:death on the 15th of See also:August 1874 . He published a number of charges and sermons, and The Ministerial See also:Character of See also:Christ Practically Considered (See also:London, 1824) . He also edited and translated See also:John See also:Milton's De doctrina christiana, which was found in the See also:State See also:Paper See also:office in 1823, and formed the See also:text of See also:Macaulay's famous See also:essay on Milton . See the See also:Life, by his son, G . H . Sumner (1876) .

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