Edward Tufnell (bishop)

Tufnell was born on 3 October 1814 in Bath, Somerset"A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank" Burke,J: London, Henry Colburn, 1838 and educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxford."The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889 He was the son of a banker, John Charles Tufnell, and Uliana Ivanova Margaret Fowell, who had a total of eighteen children.

Ordained a priest in 1839, his first posts were curacies at Broadwindsor and Broad Hinton.[http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/559992?c=people ADB on line] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011192732/http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/559992?c=people |date=11 October 2012 }}. Trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved on 26 August 2011. After this he held incumbencies at Beechingstoke[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=102775 British history on-line] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024091813/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=102775 |date=24 October 2012 }}. British-history.ac.uk (3 March 1972). Retrieved on 26 August 2011. and Marlborough.[http://anglicanhistory.org/aus/tufnell_obituary1897.html Project Canterbury] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707053434/http://anglicanhistory.org/aus/tufnell_obituary1897.html |date=7 July 2010 }}. Anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.

He served as Anglican Bishop of Brisbane from 1859 to 1874."Bishop Tufnell and Queensland education, 1860–1874" Lawry,J.R: Melbourne, Monash University, 1966

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While in Brisbane in 1863, Edward Tufnell commissioned architect Benjamin Backhouse to build the house Riversleigh on North Quay as an investment.{{Citation | author1=Unidentified | title=Front view of Riversleigh, North Quay, Brisbane, ca. 1931 | publication-date=1931 | publisher=John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153919191 | accessdate=4 March 2015 }}

Tufnell returned to England in 1874. In 1882 he became the vicar of Felpham near Bognor Regis and in 1888 he paid for the school to move to a new site in Felpham Way. The school is still named after him,[http://www.bishoptufnell.w-sussex.sch.uk/ School web-site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910171954/http://www.bishoptufnell.w-sussex.sch.uk/ |date=10 September 2011 }}. Bishoptufnell.w-sussex.sch.uk. Retrieved on 26 August 2011. but moved again in 1957. The rector's vestry at St Mary's Church[http://www.stmarys-felpham.co.uk/ Church website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326173635/http://www.stmarys-felpham.co.uk/ |date=26 March 2012 }}. Stmarys-felpham.co.uk. Retrieved on 26 August 2011. was erected in 1899 as a memorial to him.

Tufnell married his cousin, Laura Tufnell, who was the daughter of John Jolliffe Tufnell of Langleys, Great Waltham, Essex. They had two children: Arthur Wyndam Tufnell, who was murdered in India while travelling on a train to Simla; and Ida Mary Uliana Mary Tufnell, who married Henry Arthur Wansbrough, a priest. Ida was the grandmother of the Benedictine monk and scholar, Dom Henry Wansbrough.Borthwick, Julian, "In a Few Words – Henry Wansbrough OSB: Monk, Scholar and Wordsmith", pp 290-292, at p 290, in McCosker, Philip, What is it that the Scripture Says?: Essays in Biblical Interpretation, Translation and Reception in Honour of Henry Wansbrough OSB, (2006: Bloomsbury Publishing). Laura Tufnell was the sister of Maria Tufnell, who married Edward Strutt,[http://www.thepeerage.com/p8293.htm#i82927 The Peerage – Edward Strutt] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204604/http://www.thepeerage.com/p8293.htm |date=3 March 2016 }}. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved on 26 August 2011. founder of Strutt & Parker estate agents. Maria was lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte. Tufnell died on 3 December 1896.The Times, Friday, 4 December 1896; pg. 6; Issue 35065; col D Obituary E.W. Tufnell DD

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