Henry Pepys

Henry Pepys (18 April 1783– 13 November 1860) was a Church of England Bishop of Worcester.

Biography

Pepys was born in Wimpole Street, London, the son of Sir William W. Pepys, a master in chancery, who was descended from John Pepys, of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, a great-uncle of Samuel Pepys the diarist. He was the younger brother of Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1804, and, then, migrated as a fellow to St. John's College, Cambridge proceeding to M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, and D.D. 1840.

Pepys was rector of Aspenden, Hertfordshire, from 12 June 1818 to 28 April 1827, and held with it the college living of Moreton, Essex, from 16 Aug. 1822 until 1840. On 3 Feb. 1826 he was appointed a prebendary of Wells, and on 31 March 1827 rector of Westmill, Hertfordshire. On 27 Jan. 1840 he was, on the recommendation of Lord Melbourne, elevated to become Bishop of Sodor and Man, was consecrated at Whitehall on 1 March, arrived at Douglas, Isle of Man, on 27 April, was installed at St. Mary's, Castleton, on 8 May. He left the island on 4 May 1841, on his translation to the see of Worcester.

In politics he was a liberal. In the House of Lords, although he voted in favour of the chief liberal measures, he only spoke twice on ecclesiastical questions of small importance. Personally he was very popular, and was conscientious in the discharge of his diocesan duties. He was a generous patron of the triennial Three Choirs Festival. He died at Hartlebury Castle, Stourport, Worcestershire, on 13 Nov. 1860.

Pepys married, on 27 Jan. 1824, Maria Sullivan, third daughter of the Right Hon. John Sullivan, commissioner of the board of control. She died on 17 June 1885, in her ninetieth year, having had four children
*(1) Philip Henry Pepys, registrar of the London court of bankruptcy
*(2) Herbert George Pepys, honorary canon of Worcester
*(3) Maria Louisa Pepys, who married the Rev. Edward Winnington Ingram
*(4) Emily Pepys, who married the Rev. and Hon. William Henry Lyttelton, and died on 12 Sept. 1877.

Publications

*"The Remains of the late Lord Viscount Royston, with a Memoir of his Life," 1838,
*six charges
*two single sermons.

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