Hemming Robeson

Hemming Robeson was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[1]

Robeson was born in Bromsgrove and educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford.[2] Robeson was ordained Deacon in 1857[3] and Priest in 1858.[4] After a curacy in Forthampton, he was Vicar of Mildenhall until 1877.[5] Later in his career, he was Vicar of Tewkesbury from 1877 to 1892, then Archdeacon of Bristol from 1892 to[6] 1904, and finally Archdeacon of North Wilts from 1904 to 1909.[7] He died on 16 June 1912.

References
  1. Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Monday, 27 May 1907; pg. 3; Issue 38343 ‘Presented with a leather bound prayer book by his rural deans'
  2. ‘ UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE’ The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Monday, 21 March 1853; Issue 26907
  3. ‘GENERAL ORDINATIONS’ The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, 10 June 1857; pg. 6; Issue 26035
  4. "GENERAL ORDINATIONS" Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, 5 June 1858; Issue 5484
  5. 'Multiple News Items’ Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, 4 May 1877; pg. 6; Issue 1658
  6. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  7. ‘ ROBESON, Ven. Hemming’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 29 April 2013


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