Burgon

Sources yet to be consulted:
- Life of Dean Burgon, Dean Edward M. Goulburn (NOT Goudburn), 2 Vols, London, 1892.
- "Dean Burgon's Baby Clothes", article by the Rev. Bayley in Sussex Archaeological Collections, Volume 101.

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].

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