Edward Fortescue

Edward Bowles Knottesford-Fortescue^{[1][2][N 1]} was an Anglican priest in the 19th century.

He was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1816 and educated at Wadham College, Oxford^[3] and ordained in 1840. After a curacy in Billesley he became the incumbent at Wilmcote. In 1851 he became Provost of St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth,^[4] a post he held for twenty years.

Having resigned as Provost in 1871, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1872; unable, as a married man, to be ordained in the Catholic Church he lived as a layman acting as principal to a Catholic school in Holloway.^[5]

He died on 18 August 1877.^[6]

Notes

1. Fortescue may have used each surname separately at different points in his life.

References

1. St Ninian's Cathedral – The Episcopate of Patrick Torry
2. fortescue.org – Edward Bowles Knottesford Fortescue of Alveston
3. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE, The Standard (London, England), Friday, 3 June 1842; Issue 5586. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
4. ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
5. "The Latin Clerk: The Life, Work, and Travels of Adrian Fortescue" Nichols, Aidan: Cambridge The Lutterworth Press ISBN 9780718892746
6. Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries . The Standard (London, England), Wednesday, August 22, 1877; pg. [1]; Issue 16561. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.