Chelsea in the olden & present times / by George Bryan.

  • Bryan, George.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Chelsea in the olden & present times / by George Bryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is said that the bishop was open, generous, and charitable, a good companion, and a good man. He died in 1721.* Charles Trimnell, son of the Rev. Charles Trimnell, Rector of Repton Abbotts, Huntingdonshire, was educated at Oxford. He was consecrated Bishop of Norwich in 1707; was made Clerk of the Closet to George I., and translated to the see of Winchester in 1721. This bishop, naturally of a weak con- stitution, did not long survive his last promotion. He died at Farnham in 1723, aged 40. This prelate was a steady partizan of the revolution, which he defended by his pen ; warm, yet temperate; zealous, yet moderate; and his piety did not pre- vent him from gaining a perfect knowledge of mankind. Richard Willis, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, was pro- moted to the deanery of Lincoln, by King William; and in 1714 was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester, translated in 1721 to Salisbury, and thence to Winchester in 1723, where he resided till his death, which happened suddenly at Winchester House, Cheyne Walk, in 1734, aged 71 ; his wife was buried in Chelsea Church, in 1727, but he himself was buried in his own Cathedral. Bishop Hoadly, a prelate of great merit, was the son of the Rev. Samuel Hoadly, Master of the Public Grammar School at N orwich; he was educated at his father's school till he went to Catherine Hall, Cambridge, where he atterwards became College Tutor, and appears to have been held in high esteem throughout the whole course of his academical studies. Although he applied to study with an intensity of application that made him eminent, he acquired at the same time considerable proficiency in music. In 1698 he was ordained, and about three years afterwards he married Miss Curtis, a great proficient in the art of painting, many of her portraits exciting public attention, particularly one of Bishop Burnet. In 1704 Mr. Hoadly obtained the rectory of St. Peter le Poor; he began writing as soon as he came to London; and in 1709 the following vote w'as passed in the House of Commons :— “ Resolved, That the Rev. Benjamin Hoadly, having often jus- tified the principles on which his Majesty and the nation proceeded in the late happy revolution, hath-justly nierited the favour and recommendation of this House. That an humble * Qr^ger, vol. iv., p. 293.