Charles Abel Heurtley
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Charles Abel Heurtley (b Bishopwearmouth 4 January 1806; d Christ Church, Oxford 1 May 1895) was an English theologian.[1]
Heurtley was educated at Louth Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford,[2] of which college he was a Fellow from 1832 to 1841 when he became Rector of Fenny Compton. He was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1853 until his death.[3]
He married Jane Harrison, the daughter of Reverend William Bagshaw and Charlotte Harrison in 1844. They had one son and three daughters: Charles, Jane, Ellen and Frances.[4]
Heurtley's son, also named Charles Abel Heurtley, followed him into the church and became vicar of Ashington, West Sussex. The younger Charles Heurtley's son, Walter Abel Heurtley, became a classical archaeologist.[5]
His daughter Jane married Sydney Linton, Bishop of Riverina.
