Diocesan Histories : Carlisle

 

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Bishops marked with an asterisk (fourteen in number) are natives of the diocese of Carlisle, as it now (1888) exists. Those marked with an asterisk and queried (five in number) are most probably natives of the diocese. Several others are north countrymen; others held preferment in the diocese before they became bishops thereof. With the possible exceptions of the second and third, the bishops of Carlisle have all been Englishmen.

SUCCESSION OF THE BISHOPS OF CARLISLE

Accession1

1. Ęthelwulf 1133
2. Bernard
He died in 1186. After his death the see was vacant until 1218, during a part of which time the revenues and custody of the see were granted to a foreign archbishop.
1156
3. Hugh 1218
4. Walter Malclerk, res [resigned] 1223
5. Silvester de Everdon 1246
*6. Thomas Vipont 1255
7. Robert de Chauncy 1256
*8. Ralph de Irton 1280
*9. John de Halton ? 1292
10. John de Ross 1325
11. John de Kirby 1332
John de Horncastle, 2 dep. [deprived] 1352
*12. Gilbert de Welton ? 1353
*13. Thomas de Appleby ? 1362
*14. Robert Reed ? trans. [translated to another appointment] 1396
15. Thomas Merks, dep. 1397
*16. William Strickland 1400
*17. Robert Whelpdale 1419
18. William Barrow 1422
19. Marmaduke Lumley, trans. 1429
20. Nicholas Close, trans. 1449
21. William Percy 1452
22. John Kingscote 1462
23. Richard Scrope 1463
*24. Edward Story ?, trans. 1468
25. Richard Bell. 1477
26. William Sever, trans. 1496
*27. Richard Leyburn 1502
28. John Penny 1508
29. John Kite 1501

[Date crossed through by a previous owner of the book, and corrected to 1521 - this agrees with the text in an earlier chapter.]

30. Robert Oldridge, or Aldridge 1537
31. Owen Oglethorpe 1556
32. John Best 1560
33. Richard Barnes, trans. 1570
34. John Meye 1577
*35. Henry Robinson 1598
36. Robert Snowden 1616
*37. Richard Milburn 1621
*38. Richard Senhouse 1622
39. Francis White, trans. 1626
*40. Barnaby Potter 1628
41. James Usher 1641
A vacancy from 1656
42. Richard Sterne, trans. 1660
43. Edward Rainbow 1664
*44. Thomas Smith 1684
*45. William Nicolson, trans. 1702
46. Samuel Bradford, trans. 1718
*47. John Waugh 1723
*48. Sir George Fleming 1734
49. Richard Osbaldiston, trans. 1747
50. Charles Lyttleton 1764
*51. Edmund Law 1768
52. John Douglas, trans. 1787
53. Edward Venables Vernon (Harcourt), trans. 1791
54. Samuel Goodenough 1808
55. Hugh Percy 1827
56. Henry Montague Villiers, trans. 1856
57. Samuel Waldegrave 1860
58. Harvey Goodwin 1869
     
BISHOP OF BARROW-IN-FURNESS
1. Henry Ware 1889
     
PRIORS OF CARLISLE
This list cannot be relied upon. See ante, p. 208. [chapter 12]
Athelwald John de Kirby
Walter Galfrid
John John de Horncastle
Bartholomew Richard de Rydale
Ralph John de Penrith
Robert de Morville William de Dalston
Adam de Helton Robert de Edenhall
Allan Thomas de Hoton
John de Halton Thomas Elye
John de Kendall Thomas Barnaby
Robert Thomas Haithwaite
Adam de Warthwic Thomas Gondibour
William de Hautwyssell Simon Senhouse
Robert de Helperton Christopher Slee
Simon de Hautwyssell Lancelot Salkeld
William de Hastworth
     
DEANS OF CARLISLE
With the years in which they were respectively installed.
1. Lancelot Salkeld, the last prior and first dean. 1542
2. Sir Thomas Smith, L.L.D. 1560
3. Sir John Wooley, knight, M.A. 1577
4. Christopher Perkins, L.L.D. 1596
5. Francis White, S.T.P., preferred to Bishop of Carlisle 1622
6. William Paterson, S.T.P., Dean of Exeter 1626
7. Thomas Comber, S.T.P. 1630
8. Guy Carleton, D.D., Bishop of Bristol and Chester 1660
9. Thomas Smith, D.D. Bishop of Carlisle 1671
10. Thomas Musgrave, D.D. 1684
11. William Graham, D.D., Dean of Wells 1686
12. Francis Atterbury, D.D., Bishop of Rochester, &c. 1704
13. George Smalridge, D.D., Dean of Christchurch 1711
14. Thomas Gibson, D.D. 1713
15. Thomas Tullie, L.L.D. 1716
16. Sir George Fleming, Bart., L.L.D., Bishopof Carlisle 1727
17. Robert Bolton, L.L.D. 1734
18. Charles Tarrent, L.L.D., Dean of Peterborough 1764
19. Thomas Wilson, D.D. 1764
20. Thomas Percy, D.D., Bishop of Dromore 1778
21. Jeffrey Ekins, D.D. 1782
22. Isaac Milner, D.D., F.R.S. 1792
23. Robert Hodgson, D.D., F.R.S. 1820
24. John Anthony Cramer, D.D. 1844
25. Samuel Hinds, D.D., Bishop of Norwich 1848
26. A.C. Tait, D.D., D.C.L., Archbishop of Canterbury 1850
27. Francis Close, D.D. 1856
28. John Oakley, D.D. Dean of Manchester 1881
29. W. G. Henderson, D.D. D.C.L. 1884

1. The date of the consecration and of the restitution of the temporalities are sometimes much later than the date of the accession - often a year, sometimes two - which occasions much confusion.
2. This ecclesiastic had possession of the see and restitution of the temoralities, but seems to never have been consecrated, and so is not generally reckoned among the bishops of Carlisle.

 

Diocesan Histories : Carlisle,
by Richard S. Ferguson, Chancellor of Carlisle
Published by SPCK, London, 1889

 

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