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See also:SUMNER, See also:CHARLES See also:RICHARD (1790-1874) , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:Kenilworth on the 22nd of See also:November 1790, and was educated at See also:Eton and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1814, M.A. in 1817, and was ordained See also:deacon
and See also:priest. In the two winters of 1814-1816 he ministered to the English See also:congregation at See also:Geneva, and from 1816 to 1821 was See also:curate of Highclere, See also:Hampshire. In 182o See also:George IV. wished to appoint him See also:canon of See also:Windsor, but the See also:prime See also:minister, See also:Lord See also:Liverpool, objected; Sumner received instead a royal chaplaincy and librarianship, and other preferments quickly followed, till in 1826 he was consecrated bishop of See also:Llandaff and in 1827 bishop of See also:Winchester. In his See also:long See also:administration of his latter See also:diocese he was most energetic, tactful and munificent. Though evangelical in his views he by no means confined his patronage to that school. In 1869 he resigned his see, but continued to live at the See also:official See also:residence at See also:Farnham until his See also:death on the 15th of See also:August 1874. He published a number of charges and sermons, and The Ministerial See also:Character of See also:Christ Practically Considered (See also:London, 1824). He also edited and translated See also:John See also:Milton's De doctrina christiana, which was found in the See also:State See also:Paper See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in 1823, and formed the See also:text of See also:Macaulay's famous See also:essay on Milton.
See the See also:Life, by his son, G. H. Sumner (1876).
End of Article: SUMNER, CHARLES RICHARD (1790-1874)
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