Edward Henry Bickersteth

BICKERSTETH, Edward Henry. b. Islington, London, 25 January 1825; d. Paddington, London, 16 May 1906. The son of Edward Bickersteth*, he was educated at home and at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1847, MA 1850), where he won the Chancellor’s English Medal three years running (1844, 45, 46). He was ordained (deacon 1848, priest 1849) serving as a curate at Banningham, Norfolk, and Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. He became rector of Hinton Martell, Dorset in 1852, and vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead, in 1855. Like his father, he was a great supporter of the Church Missionary Society, for which he wrote ‘O brothers, lift your voices’* as a young curate in 1848. In 1885 he was appointed Dean...