CHARLES

See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD

See also:

• SUMNER, CHARLES (1811--1874)
• CHARLES RICHARD SUMNER (1790-1874)
• SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE (1797-1863)
• SUMNER, JOHN BIRD (1780-1862)
• SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM (1840-1910)

SUMNER (1790-1874)  , English bishop, was born at Kenilworth on the 22nd of November 1790, and was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge . He graduated B.A. in 1814, M.A. in 1817, and was ordained deacon and priest . In the two winters of 1814-1816 he ministered to the English congregation at Geneva, and from 1816 to 1821 was curate of Highclere, Hampshire . In 182o George IV. wished to appoint him canon of Windsor, but the prime minister, Lord Liverpool, objected; Sumner received instead a royal chaplaincy and librarianship, and other preferments quickly followed, till in 1826 he was consecrated bishop of Llandaff and in 1827 bishop of Winchester . In his long administration of his latter 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 official residence at Farnham until his death on the 15th of August 1874 . He published a number of charges and sermons, and The Ministerial Character of Christ Practically Considered (London, 1824) . He also edited and translated John Milton's De doctrina christiana, which was found in the State Paper office in 1823, and formed the text of Macaulay's famous essay on Milton . See the Life, by his son, G . H . Sumner (1876) .