Richard Durnford

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He was born in Newbury, Berkshire, into an ecclesiastical family (his father was also named Richard Dunford). He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, and ordained in 1831.

Durnford took a position as tutor to Edward Vernon Harbord, for which he was recommended by Stephen Lushington. With a presentation from Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield, he was then from 1835 rector of Middleton, Lancashire.{{cite book |last1=Bacon |first1=Richard Mackenzie |title=A Memoir of the Life of Edward, Third Baron Suffield |date=1838 |publisher=Bacon, Kinnebrook and Bacon |page=229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V05BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA229 |language=en}} He became its rural dean.

In 1840 he married Emma, the daughter of his old Eton headmaster, John Keate. He had two sons, Richard Durnford Jr., former secretary of the Charity Commission, and Sir Walter Durnford.

In 1867 he became Archdeacon of Manchester and in the following year canon residentiary at Manchester Cathedral. In 1870 he was elevated to the episcopate of Chichester.

He died in Basel. His body was brought back to Chichester Cathedral for a funeral service, and then interred at Westhampnett.

Durnford House at Brighton College was named after him. The Durnford House at Eton is named after his brother, Francis Edward Durnford, who taught there from 1839 to 1877.

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{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|title=Consecration Of Three Bishops In Whitehall Chapel|date=May 9, 1870|page=8; col E|id=Issue 26745}}

{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|title=The Funeral Of The Late Bishop Of Chichester|date=Oct 21, 1895|page=11; col B|id=Issue 34713}}

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{{cite book|title=A memoir of Richard Durnford, sometime bishop of Chichester (with selections from his correspondence)|editor-last=Stephens|editor-first=W.R.W|editor-link=William Richard Wood Stephens|publisher=John Murray|location=London|year=1899|url=https://archive.org/details/amemoirrichardd00stepgoog|access-date=2011-03-04}}

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