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"Bishop of Exeter" Henry Phillpotts Hand Written 3 Page Letter:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Bishop of Exeter" Henry Phillpotts Hand Written 3 Page Letter Dated 1842. 

September 1869), often called "Henry of Exeter", was the Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869. One of England's

longest serving bishops since the 14th century, Phillpotts was a striking

figure of the 19th century Church. Henry Phillpotts, D.D., Bishop of Exeter,

was born on 6 May 1778 at Bridgwater, Somerset, England, the son of John land agent to the Dean and Chapter

of Gloucester Cathedral. He

grew up in Gloucestershire, and was educated at

Gloucester Cathedral school. John Phillpotts, Member of Parliament for Gloucester city between 1830 and 1847, was his elder

brother. Two other brothers, Thomas and George, and two sisters, Isabella and

Sibella, reached adulthood; a number of other siblings died in infancy or

childhood. Elected

a scholar of Corpus Christi, Oxford, at the age of only thirteen, he took his BA at Corpus Christi, and his MA at Magdalen College in

1795, aged eighteen. He took holy orders in 1802, being ordained deacon by Bishop Randolph and priest by Bishop Majendie in 1804. He was selected

university preacher in 1804, in which year he published his Sermon on 5

November, delivered before the University of Oxford. In

September 1804 he was presented to the Crown living of Kilmersdon, near Bath, which he held until 1806.[2] He does not appear ever to have resided there,

duty being taken by a curate named Daniel Drape, according

to the parish registers. As bishop he was a strict

disciplinarian, and did much to restore order in a diocese whose clergy had become over which he wielded considerable power. The

diocese at that time extended from the Somerset and Dorset borders to the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall. His episcopate was characterized by the

establishment of many new parishes in Cornwall and considerable evangelical

efforts. In

1841 he built for himself a palace at Torquay, Devon. Bishopstowe (now the Palace Hotel)

served as the bishop's residence, which he preferred as a home to the Bishop's

Residence attached to Exeter Cathedral. The gardens in the 25 acres (100,000 m2)

of private land stretching to the sea are still a major attraction today

together with the Bishop's Walk at the local beauty spot of Ansteys Cove. Phillpotts

was aware that his appointment to Exeter was not popular locally and knowing of

his unpopularity he at times took measures to protect himself from it. He

admits in a letter to Ralph Barnes, his secretary, on 14 December 1830 to being

"Cautious...in admitting adverse newspapers to my table, yet the caution

has not prevented me from hearing of the extreme unpopularity of my appointment

to Exeter." 

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