Henry Downton

DOWNTON, Henry. b. Pulverbatch, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 12 February 1818; d. Hopton, Suffolk, 8 June 1885. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1840, MA 1843), he took Holy Orders (deacon 1843, priest 1844) serving curacies at Bembridge, Isle of Wight (1843-44) and Holy Trinity, Cambridge (1847-49). After eight years as perpetual curate of St John’s, Chatham (1849-57), he was English Chaplain at Geneva (1857-73), before becoming rector of Hopton, Suffolk, on the border with Norfolk, from 1873 until his death. During his time at Geneva he published The Heavenly Father. Lectures on Modern Atheism (1865), a translation of a work by Jules Ernest Naville (1816-1909); he later...

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