George Bland

George Bland[1] (1806–1880) was a nineteenth-century English clergyman.[2] He was Archdeacon of Lindisfarne [3] then Archdeacon of Northumberland.[4]

Life

Bland's mother was a sister of Edward Maltby, Bishop of Chichester then Durham.[5] He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,[6] and ordained in 1831.[7] He began his ecclesiastical career as Domestic Chaplain to his uncle at Chichester[8] after which he was the incumbent at St Peter, Slinfold.[9] In 1844 Maltby appointed him Archdeacon of Lindisfarne.[10] He married Frances Sibyl Collinson in 1846.[11]

He was transferred to Northumberland (to which a residentiary canonry at Durham Cathedral was annexed) in 1853, gaining also the Rectory of St Mary-le-Bow, Durham in 1856.[12] and died in post on 17 February 1880.[13] His wife died in 1897.[14]

References

1. Durham University Library Special Collections Catalogue
2. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
3. Durham Cathedral Library Additional Manuscripts
4. National Archives
5. ‘LOCAL NOTES’ The Newcastle Courant etc (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England), Friday, February 20, 1880; Issue 10703
6. "Bland, George (BLNT823G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
7. ‘Ordinations Lincoln’ Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, March 12, 1831; Issue 4
8. ‘THE CHURCH, The Essex Standard, and Colchester and County Advertiser (Colchester, England), Saturday, October 15, 1831; Issue 41
9. Geograph
10. The Times (London, England), Monday, May 20, 1844; pg. 1; Issue 18614
11. "Yonge Letters". Archived from the original on 2013-12-12. Retrieved 2013-04-03.
12. Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1860 (p. 55)
13. ‘SUMMARY OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS’ The Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Wednesday, February 18, 1880; Issue 4677
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