Hemming Robeson

Hemming Robeson was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.^[1]

Robeson was born in Bromsgrove and educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford.^[2] and ordained Deacon in 1857^[3] and Priest in 1858.^[4] After a curacy in Forthampton he was Vicar of Mildenhall until 1877.^[5] Later in his career he was Vicar of Tewkesbury from 1877 to 1892;then Archdeacon of Bristol from 1892 to^[6] 1904; and finally Archdeacon of North Wilts from 1904 to 1909.^[7] He died on 16 June 1912.

References

1. Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Monday, May 27, 1907; pg. 3; Issue 38343 ‘Presented with a leather bound prayer book by his rural deans'
2. ‘ UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE’ The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Monday, March 21, 1853; Issue 26907
3. ‘GENERAL ORDINATIONS’ The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, June 10, 1857; pg. 6; Issue 26035
4. ‘GENERAL ORDINATIONS’ Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, June 5, 1858; Issue 5484
5. ‘Multiple News Items’ Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, May 04, 1877; pg. 6; Issue 1658
6. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
7. ‘ ROBESON, Ven. Hemming’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 29 April 2013