James Williams Adams (1839–1903) by unknown photographer, in or after 1881 courtesy of the Director, National Army Museum, London
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Adams, James Williams (1839–1903), army chaplain, born on 24 November 1839 in Cork, was the only son of James O'Brien Adams, magistrate of Cork (d. 1854), and his wife, Elizabeth Williams. Educated at Hamlin and Porter's School, on the South Mall, Cork...
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Brown, David (1762–1812), East India Company chaplain, was the son of Francis Brown, a prosperous farmer of Driffield Greets, Yorkshire. He was educated privately at Scarborough and then at Hull grammar school and Magdalene College, Cambridge. In February 1785, his studies incomplete, he accepted the post of superintendent of the ...
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Claudius Buchanan (1766–1815) by Frederick Christian Lewis senior, pubd 1815 (after J. Slater, 1814) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Penelope Carson
Buchanan, Claudius (1766–1815), East India Company chaplain, was born on 12 March 1766 at Cambuslang, a village near Glasgow, the second son of Alexander Buchanan (d. 1788), schoolmaster at Inveraray, Argyll, and his wife, the daughter of Claudius Somers. He commenced his education at ...
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Jonathan Spain
D'Auvergne, Edward (1665–1737), historian and army chaplain, belonged to the ancient D'Auvergne family of St Ouen, on the island of Jersey. He was the third son of Philip D'Auvergne (d. 1690) and Madeleine le Maistre (d. c.1712). At his baptism on 17 February 1665 he was presented by ...
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Peter L'Estrange
Doyle, William Joseph Gabriel (1873–1917), Roman Catholic priest and military chaplain, was born at Dalkey, co. Dublin, on 3 March 1873, the youngest of seven children of Hugh Doyle, chief clerk of the high court of bankruptcy, and his wife, Christine, née Byrne...
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D. W. Hayton
Evans, John (c. 1652–1724), East India Company chaplain and Church of Ireland bishop of Meath, was born into a Welsh-speaking family at Plas-du, Llanarmon, Caernarvonshire. Although the precise details of his parentage and early life remain obscure, it seems most likely that he was the son of ...
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George Robert Gleig (1796–1888) by Daniel Maclise, pubd 1875 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Gleig, George Robert (1796–1888), chaplain to the armed forces and author, was born on 20 April 1796 at Stirling, the son of George Gleig, bishop of Brechin, and his wife, Janet Hamilton of Kilbrackmont, Fife. He had two brothers and one sister who survived childhood. He was first taught by his father before going to the local grammar school in ...
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Gwynne, Llewellyn Henry (1863–1957), bishop in Egypt and Sudan and army chaplain, was born at Foxhole, Llansamlet Lower, in the Kilvey valley on the outskirts of Swansea, on 11 June 1863, the fourth son in the family of six sons and two daughters of ...
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Lawrence Goldman
Hardman, Leslie Henry (1913–2008), Jewish minister and army chaplain, was born at 12 Maes-y-Dyffryn, Glynneath, Glamorgan, on 18 February 1913, the son of Abraham Hardman, draper, and his wife, Dora, née Priceman. His father had emigrated from Poland, his mother from Russia. He was originally named ...
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Theodore Bayley Hardy (1863–1918) by unknown photographer, 1918 The Imperial War Museum, London
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N. T. A. Cave
Hardy, Theodore Bayley (1863–1918), army chaplain, was born on 20 October 1863 in the Southernhay district of Exeter. He was the son of George Hardy, a commercial traveller, and his wife, Sarah Richardson; George was her second husband, her first having died. George...
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Knox, John (d. 1688), Church of Scotland minister and army chaplain, was the younger son of John Knox (d. in or after 1654) [see under Knox, John (c. 1555-1623)], minister of Bowden in Teviotdale, Roxburghshire, and his wife, Margaret Douglas. He was the grandson of ...
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Peter Howson
O'Rorke, Benjamin Garniss (1875–1918), Church of England clergyman and chaplain to the forces, was born at 24 Hampden Street, Nottingham, on 7 April 1875, the son of William Joseph Rorke (1834/5–1924), a hotel keeper who was proprietor of the Caledonian temperance hotel in ...
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E. G. Hawke
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Polehampton, Henry Stedman (1824–1857), East India Company chaplain, was born on 1 February 1824 at the rectory, Greenford, Middlesex, the second son of Edward Polehampton (1775/6–1830), rector of Greenford, and his wife, the younger daughter of Thomas Stedman, vicar of St Chad's, Shrewsbury...
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John Morrow Simms (1854–1934) by Walter Stoneman, 1920 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Simms, John Morrow (1854–1934), Presbyterian minister and chaplain to the forces, was born at Newtownards, co. Down, on 23 November 1854, the second son of John Simms and his wife, Elizabeth, née Alexander. He was educated at the Old Academy, Belfast, and at ...
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I. T. Foster
Smith, John Taylor (1860–1938), bishop of Sierra Leone and chaplain-general to the forces, was born on 20 April 1860 at Kendal, Westmorland, the second son of James Smith, coal agent, and his wife, Jane. He had two brothers and two sisters. He was educated at ...
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