Charles Thomas Longley

Charles Thomas Longley

Infobox Archbishop of Canterbury|
Full name = Charles Thomas Longley


caption =
birth_name =
began = 1862
term_end = October 27 1868
predecessor = John Bird Sumner
successor = Archibald Campbell Tait
birth_date = 1794
birthplace = Rochester, Kent
death_date = October 27 1868
deathplace = Addington Palace
tomb = St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, Addington, London
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Charles Thomas Longley (July 28 1794 – October 27 1868 [cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16987|title=J. R. Garrard, ‘Longley, Charles Thomas (1794–1868)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004|accessdate=2008-06-06] ), was a priest in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Ripon, Bishop of Durham, Archbishop of York, and later as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until his death.

Life

He was born at Rochester, and educated at Westminster School and the University of Oxford. He was ordained in 1818, and was appointed vicar of Cowley, Oxford, in 1823. In 1827 he received the rectory of West Tytherley, Hampshire, and two years later he was elected headmaster of Harrow School. He held this office until 1836, when he was consecrated bishop of the new see of Ripon. In 1856 he became Bishop of Durham, and in 1860 he became Archbishop of York.

In 1862, he succeeded John Bird Sumner as Archbishop of Canterbury. Soon afterwards the questions connected with the deposition of Bishop John William Colenso were referred to Longley, but, while regarding Colenso's opinions as heretical and his deposition as justifiable, he refused to pronounce upon the legal difficulties of the case.

The chief event of his primacy was the meeting at Lambeth, in 1867, of the first Pan-Anglican conference of British, colonial and foreign bishops. His published works included numerous sermons and addresses. He died at Addington Park, near Croydon.

Caroline Georgina Longley, daughter of Archbishop Longley, married Major Edward Levett of Wychnor Park and Packington Hall, Staffordshire, son of John Levett and his wife Sophia Kennedy. (Their daughter Maud Sophia Levett married William Swynnerton Byrd Levett of Milford Hall, Staffordshire.) Rosamond Esther Harriett Longley, daughter of Archbishop Longley, married Hon. Cecil Thomas Parker, heir presumptive to the Earl of Macclesfield. Longley's daughter Mary Henrietta Longley married the Hon. Rev. George Winfield Bourke, Honorable Chaplain to the King and son of Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo. (Their son Walter Longley Bourke became the 8th Earl of Mayo.) John Augustine Longley, son of the Archbishop, served as assistant private secretary to the Lord of the Privy Seal and married Lady Louisa Katherine, daughter of 3rd Earl of Eldon. Sir Henry Longley, KCB, the eldest son of Archbishop Longley, served as Chief Charity Commissioner for the British government. He married Diana Eliza Davenport, daughter of John Davenport of Foxley, Herefordshire.

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