Charles Bigg

BIGG, Charles. b. Higher Broughton, near Manchester, 12 September 1840; d. Oxford, 15 July 1908. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA 1862, MA 1864), where he was a brilliant student, winning the Hertford Prize for Latin, the Ireland Scholarship, and the Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose. He took Holy Orders (deacon 1863, priest 1864), but so enjoyed teaching in a school that he became an assistant master at Cheltenham College (1865-71) and Principal of Brighton College (two independent schools, 1871-81). In 1881, after a disagreement with the ‘obtuse governors’ (ODNB), he returned to his old college as chaplain, giving the Bampton Lectures in...