Henry Bishop (priest)
Henry Bishop (c. 1793 – 10 April 1857) was an English priest and academic, fellow of Oriel College, University of Oxford.[1] He was the third son of Samuel Willson Bishop, a London merchant who moved to Oxford.[2]
Bishop was a member of the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832 which reformed the Poor Law system in England and Wales.[1] He died at Tunbridge Wells, aged 64.[3]
He should be distinguished from a different Henry Bishop, vicar of Ardleigh, of St John's College, Cambridge, who died in 1851.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/membersrc.html
- ↑ "Some Oxford doctors: Charles Joseph Bishop (1794–1838)". Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ↑ Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.) (1857). Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Edward Cave. p. 624. Search this book on
- ↑ Clergy deceased, The Gentleman's Magazine, March 1851
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