Burgon
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Dean Burgon.
From
here.
Thomas Burgon, born 1767,
English
merchant in Turkey,
"a successful London merchant connected with the commerce of the city of London",
mar
Catherine Marguerite de Cramer
[born est c.1790,
grave describes her as Catherine Margaret, "his incomparable"],
he was a collector and connoisseur of ancient art,
he was a
numismatist
(studied ancient coins),
and became an assistant in the antiquities department
of the British Museum, London,
she died 7th Sept 1834, age est c.44 yrs,
he died 28th Aug 1838, age 71 yrs,
both buried in vaults on the S side of the wall
between the garden and the cemetery,
Holywell Manor Garden,
Balliol College, Oxford
(not sure what the connection was
- their son was Fellow of Oriel College),
see
gravestone
on the N-facing side of the wall,
had issue:
- Sarah Caroline Burgon,
bapt 5th Oct 1812, British Chapel, Smyrna
[LDS IGI].
- John Burgon
[John William,
search here
and here],
fundamentalist biblical scholar, Dean of Chichester,
born 21st Aug 1813, "in
Smyrna, a province of Greece",
bapt 2nd Sept, British Chapel, Smyrna
[LDS IGI],
high church Anglican, did not marry,
educ Worcester College,
Oxford (entered 1841, BA 1845),
he wrote a poem Petra, 1845,
about the famous rock-embedded ancient city
Petra,
Jordan,
famously describing it as:
"A rose-red city half as old as time",
Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1846
(where his cousin Rev. George Montgomery and
in-law Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea
had previously been),
MA 1848,
vicar of St Mary's, Oxford, 1863,
Gresham professor of divinity, Oxford, 1867,
Dean of Chichester, W Sussex, 1876,
his name is associated with the defence of a
literal interpretation
of the King James Bible of 1611,
opposed evolution,
opposed allowing women and non-Anglicans into universities,
protested the end of the belief that
insanity is caused by demons,
died 4th Aug 1888, age 74 yrs [grave, Balliol].
See biography
(or via here)
and fundamentalist biography
and brief fundamentalist biography
(or via here).
He is the only person to have a type of
academic hood
named after him, the "Burgon hood".
The Burgon Society,
devoted to the study of academic dress,
is named after him.
There is also a fundamentalist religious
Dean Burgon Society.
- Thomas Charles Burgon.
- Emily Mary Burgon.
- Helen Eliza Burgon.
One of
the daus, Burgon, mar Henry John Rose
[born 1800,
churchman, scholar and theologian,
died 1873, age 73 yrs].
- Catherine Margaret Burgon, named after her mother,
born c. late 1828,
mother died when she was young,
died 28th Apr 1836, age 7 ½ yrs [grave, Balliol].