3-011-722 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Dr. Ellicott, Bishop Designate of Gloucester and Bristol, 1862. Engraving from a photograph by John and Charles Watkins. 'The Very Rev. Charles John Ellicott, B.D...was born at Whitwell in 1819, and was educated at Oakham and Stamford Schools, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in honours in 1841, and subsequently became Fellow of his college. He obtained the first member's prize in 1842, and the Hulsean prize in 1843, on "The Obligations of the Sabbath." In 1848 he was appointed to the small living of Tilton, in Rutlandshire, which he resigned in 1858, and in the same year he was chosen to succeed Dean Trench as Professor of Divinity in King's College, London. In 1859 he was appointed Hulsean Lecturer, and in the following year was elected Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. In 1861 he accepted the deanery of Exeter. Dean Ellicott is the author of "Critical and Gramatical Commentaries" on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and Philemon, and on the "Pastoral Epistles"...The University of Cambridge has recently conferred the degree of D.D. upon the Bishop Designate'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.