Edward Revell Eardley-Wilmot
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Edward Revell Eardley-Wilmot | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 February 1814 |
| Died | 30 May 1899 (aged 85) Leamington Spa, England |
| Education | Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Clergyman |
| Spouses | Frances Elkins
(m. 1840; died 1846)Emma Lambert (m. 1848) |
| Children | 8 |
| Father | John Eardley-Wilmot |
| Relatives | John Wilmot (grandfather) John Eardley-Wilmot (brother) |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | Great Britain |
| Service | Army |
| Unit | Bengal Artillery |
Edward Revell Eardley-Wilmot (11 February 1814 – 30 May 1899) was a Church of England clergyman. He served for a time as an army officer, in the Bengal Artillery.[1]
He was the fifth child and fourth son of Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet and his first wife Elizabeth Emma Parry, born 11 February 1814,[2] at Leek Wootton, Warwickshire. He became a second lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery in 1830.[3] He was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1836, at age 22. He moved shortly to Trinity Hall, where he graduated B.A. in 1840, and M.A. in 1847. He was ordained deacon in 1840, and priest in 1841.[1]
Eardley-Wilmot was incumbent of St Nicholas' Church, Kenilworth from 1845 to 1855.[2] He became an honorary canon of Worcester Cathedral in 1850.[2] During this period, a new church, St John's, was built in the parish, in 1852, to a design by Ewan Christian.[4][5] Frederick Robert Kite, who had been Eardley-Wilmot's curate at St Nicholas's, was appointed to St John's in 1854.[6]
He was then Vicar (1855-1861) and Rector (1861-1872) of All Souls Church, Langham Place, appointed after the brief tenure there of William Thomson;[7][8][9] and then in 1877 was appointed as rector of Waddingham, Lincolnshire, where he held the living to 1881.[10]
Eardley-Wilmot at the end of his life resided in Leamington Spa, and died there on 30 May 1899.[11]