Hubert Burge

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The Right Rev. Hubert Murray Burge KCVO DD (9 August 1862 – 11 June 1925) was an Anglican priest, headmaster of Winchester College, Bishop of Southwark and Bishop of Oxford.^[1]

Life

Burge was born on in 1862^[2] and educated at Bedford School, Marlborough^[3] and University College, Oxford.^[4] His first post after graduation was as a Schoolmaster at Wellington College after which he was Fellow and Dean of his old college. He received a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) in March 1902, and at the same time received a Doctorate of Divinity (DD).^[5]

He was Headmaster of Repton from 1900 to 1901 and then of Winchester from 1901 to 1911,^[6] before his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Southwark in 1911.^[7] Translated to Oxford in 1919^[8] and appointed Clerk of the Closet, he was later also a Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Chancellor of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

He was a keen cricketer.^[9]

Burge was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1925 Birthday Honours, days before he died in office on 11 June 1925.^[10]

Notes

1. Bishops of Oxford
2. "Reverend Hubert Murray Burge", The Peerage, 4 September 2011
3. "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
4. University Intelligence. Oxford The Times Friday, Oct 22, 1886; pg. 5; Issue 31897; col C
5. "University intelligence" The Times (London). Monday, 24 March 1902. (36723), p. 7.
6. List of Headmasters
7. National Archives
8. The Times, Saturday, Jul 19, 1919; pg. 12; Issue 42156; col C The Times, Saturday, Jul 19, 1919; pg. 12; Issue 42156; col CEcclesiastical intelligence
9. "The Wisden Book of Cricketers’ Lives" Green,B: London Queen Anne’s Press ISBN 0-356-10640-3
10. The Times, Thursday, Jun 11, 1925; pg. 16; Issue 43985; col B The Bishop Of Oxford. Wisdom And Sympathy