William Strong, (13 February 1756 Peterborough - 8 September 1842 Stanground) was Archdeacon of Northampton from 1797 [1] until his death. [2]
Strong was educated at Charterhouse and Queens' College, Cambridge; [3] and ordained in 1781. He held incumbencies at Bolingbroke with Hareby and Billinghay; and was also an Honorary Chaplain to the King. [4]
Sir George Gilbert Scott, largely known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses. Over 800 buildings were designed or altered by him.
Thomas Arnold was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were widely copied by other noted public schools. His reforms redefined standards of masculinity and achievement.
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge was a member of the British royal family, a grandson of King George III and cousin of Queen Victoria. The Duke was an army officer by profession and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1856 to 1895. He became Duke of Cambridge in 1850 and field marshal in 1862. Deeply devoted to the old Army, he worked with Queen Victoria to defeat or minimise every reform proposal, such as setting up a general staff. His Army's weaknesses were dramatically revealed by the poor organisation at the start of the Second Boer War.
Thomas Sherlock was a British divine who served as a Church of England bishop for 33 years. He is also noted in church history as an important contributor to Christian apologetics.
Sir Albert William Woods was an English officer of arms, who served as Garter Principal King of Arms from 1869 to 1904. The Woods family has a strong tradition of service at the College of Arms. Albert Woods was the son of Sir William Woods, Garter King of Arms from 1838 until his death in 1842. Likewise, the grandson of Albert Woods was Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, who also rose to the rank of Garter King of Arms and served there from 1930 until 1944.
George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland PC, styled Lord Lovaine between 1790 and 1830 and known as the Earl of Beverley between 1830 and 1865, was a British Tory politician. He served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Sir Robert Peel between 1842 and 1846. He succeeded to his peerage on 12 February 1865, after the death of his childless cousin Algernon Percy.
John Mason Neale was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter. He worked on and wrote a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most famous hymns is the 1853 Good King Wenceslas, set on Boxing Day. An Anglo-Catholic, Neale's works have found positive reception in high-church Anglicanism and Western Rite Orthodoxy.
Joseph Devonsher Jackson PC was an Irish Conservative MP in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a High Court Judge.
Thomas Turton was an English academic and divine, the Bishop of Ely from 1845 to 1864.
George Augustus Selwyn was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. He was Bishop of New Zealand from 1841 to 1869. His diocese was then subdivided and Selwyn was Metropolitan of New Zealand from 1858 to 1868. Returning to Britain, Selwyn served as Bishop of Lichfield from 1868 to 1878.
Benjamin Heath Malkin was a British scholar and writer notable for his connection to the artist and poet William Blake.
John Lonsdale was an English clergyman, who was the third Principal of King's College, London, and later served as Bishop of Lichfield.
Harvey Goodwin was an English academic and Anglican clergyman, Bishop of Carlisle from 1869 until his death.
Owen Emeric Vidal (1819-1854) was the Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1852 until his death three years later.
Joseph Holden Pott (1759–1847) was an English churchman, archdeacon of London from 1813.
Robert Wilson Evans was an English cleric and author, Archdeacon of Westmorland from 1856 until the year before his death a decade later.
George Tomlinson was an English cleric, the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar from 1842 to 1863.
George Ayliffe Poole (1809–1883) was an English Anglican cleric and a writer on religion, church architecture and history. He strongly advocated the Gothic Revival.
Rev Samuel Peach Boutflower was an Anglican clergyman who was Archdeacon of Carlisle from 1867 until 1882.
Edward Atkinson was Master of Clare College from 1856 to his death.