Charles Longley


Charles Thomas Longley was a bishop in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Ripon, Bishop of Durham, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until his death.

Life

He was born at Rochester, Kent, the fifth son of the late John Longley, Recorder of Rochester, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1812, graduating B.A. in 1815. He was ordained in 1818, and was appointed vicar of Cowley, Oxford, in 1823. In 1827, he received the rectory of West Tytherley, Hampshire, and two years later he was elected headmaster of Harrow School. He held this office until 1836, when he was consecrated bishop of the new see of Ripon. In 1856 he became Bishop of Durham, and in 1860 he became Archbishop of York.
In 1862, he succeeded John Bird Sumner as Archbishop of Canterbury. Soon afterwards the questions connected with the deposition of John William Colenso were referred to Longley but, while regarding Colenso's opinions as heretical and his deposition as justifiable, he refused to pronounce upon the legal difficulties of the case.
The chief event of his primacy was the meeting at Lambeth, in 1867, of the first Pan-Anglican conference of British, colonial and foreign bishops. His published works included numerous sermons and addresses. He died at Addington Park, near Croydon.
Like Sumner, he was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848.

Family

As Headmaster of Harrow School, he married Caroline Sophia Parnell on 15 December 1831. Her brother George Damer Parnell was the curate of Ash, 1859–1861. Parnell was the daughter of Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton. They had several children, three sons and three daughters, of whom:
1. Henry Longley, served as Chief Charity Commissioner for the British government. He married Diana Eliza Davenport, daughter of John Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire, on 17 September 1861.
1.1. John Augustine Longley, served as assistant private secretary to the Lord Privy Seal and married, on 26 May 1898, Louisa Katherine Scott, daughter of John Scott, 3rd Earl of Eldon. There were no children listed for the marriage, nor a birthdate for John Augustine Longley.
2. & 3. Two younger sons died apparently unmarried.
4. Mary Henrietta Longley married — on 9 December 1858 — George Winfield Bourke, Honorary Chaplain to the Monarch, and son of Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo. Their only child was Walter Longley Bourke, 8th Earl of Mayo ; from 1891 to 1903, he was a Trustee of the Bridgewater Estates. Walter had married in 1887, and had four sons and two daughters, by 1905. Walter's second son was Ulick Henry Bourke, 9th Earl of Mayo, and third son Bryan Longley Bourke was father of Terence Bourke, 10th Earl of Mayo, himself father of the present Earl.
5. Caroline Georgina Longley married, on 6 November 1862, Edward Levett, major in the 10th Royal Hussars, of Wychnor Park and Packington Hall, Staffordshire, third son of John Levett and his wife Sophia Kennedy, granddaughter of Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassilis. They had two daughters, both of whom married and had children.
6. Rosamond Esther Harriett Longley married, 1870, Cecil Thomas Parker, 2nd son of Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield by his 2nd wife Mary Frances Grosvenor, a sister of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, and had four sons and two daughters. Their elder daughter Caroline Beatrix Parker married, 1895, William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman, of Leigh, Shropshire in 1929, PC, only child of John Orlando Bridgeman, Rector of Weston-under-Lizard by his wife Marianne Caroline Clive, daughter of William Clive, and left children, including the present Viscount. The fourth and youngest son Wilfrid Parker became Bishop of Pretoria, South Africa. A granddaughter Isolda Rosamond Parker married, 1940, David Pollock, 2nd Viscount Hanworth and is mother of the present peer.

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