Robert Baker Girdlestone , Canon ,  1797 -  1881

ID 3671

1836 – 1923 , bn 3rd bp 21st Oct 1836 at Sedgeley – 6th  April 1923 at Wimbledon

 Schooled at Kidderminster and Charterhouse; 3rd Class Classic and B.A. Christ Church, Oxford 1859 , M.A 1861., Christ Church, Oxford ; ordained, 1860; Curacies at Worthing and Wordsley. Appointed the First Principal of Wycliffe (Theological) Hall, Oxford, 1877-99; 12 years later, in 1889, resigned, to become Incumbent of St. John's, Downshire Hill Hampstead 1889-1903  , Hon. canon of Christ Church 1880;  Retired to Warleigh Lodge, Wimbledon.  Compiler of these Notes.

 Curate of Christ Church Worthing, and locum tenens for D.31 at Wordsley, 1866.   Served with great distinction as Editorial Secretary & Superintendent of the Translation Department to the British and Foreign Bible Society, London, for 10 years 1866-76 , holding curacies in the suburbs, e.g. at Clapham - where he lived part of the time  .

Married twice with 3 children , a large author and Contibuter to the times : 

 

 

From the Genealogical Notes which were started by Edward Baker Girdlestone in 1886 Part II —
ATTEMPS TO TRACE BACK THE ANCESTORS OF JOHN GIRDLESTONE OF KELLING

"My original ideas of the pedigree were strictly bounded by the name of John Girdlestone of Kelling; and it was not difficult to climb up the family tree so far thanks to the labours and enquiries of my brother Edward; but during two short summer holidays spent in or near Cromer, which were followed up by correspondence, I verified, and occasionally corrected the results he had obtained. The old folks south-west of Cromer knew our name pretty well, and gave me bits of gossip; but I began my real studies at Baconsthorpe. Here lies my great-uncle the rev. Theophilus Girdlestone, in the grave of his mother Sarah, after being rector of the parish for forty-four years; his mother dying in1795 and he is 1832. His widow, Mary ('Aunt Thee'), died in 1853.

"I had more trouble in finding out who was the father of John of Kelling than anyone could conceive possible. No authorities could help me . . .

I associated the family somewhat vaguely with Letheringsett, and paid a visit to this picturesque village with its beautiful round-towered church to consult the registers. They were old and, to my untrained eye very hard to read, moreover time was limited and the parish clerk watchful. At last I detected one marriage, viz., between Thomas Girdlestone, of Thornage and Mary Hodgson in 1669. I came across four burials viz., Thomas Girdlestone 'gentleman' (this was soothing!) d.1731. . . I found out afterwards that Thomas Girdlestone, gentleman, was lord of the manor of Letheringdett some time before his death; that his son John was both Rector of Cley, where his tablet is, and also that he succeeded Mr. Lang's property at Letheringsett and Cley, and to the manorial rights. His brother Richard was a man of property at Blakeney.
I felt I had got something worth going for, but I evidently had not got John Girdlestone of Kelling, who was married in 1707.

I thought I would try Kelling itself for an answer, and I have led the kind Rector, who succeeded our cousin John Gay Girdleston [it would have been John Webb Flavell], a terrible life in pursuit of this subject; putting aside his other discoveries I may say that he and I utterly failed to find the birth of our ancestor John of Kelling.

Thanks to Mr Rye I had learnt that there were two genealogies of the family in the British Museum - in Turner's "Illustrated Blomefield"; so I went to the Museum and in Vol. X., fol. 75, I found two pages of MS. stuck in under the name Kelling, without a hint of date or authorship or object of insertion. The first of these started with the missing man, i.e., the father of John Girdlestone of Kelling; but, alas! it gave neither his Christian name nor his place of abode, but simply calls him by his surname. It gives him two sons, who are named thus 'John Girdlestone of Kelling, married Sarah Ford, 1707, and —Girdlestone of Letheringsett.' . . . .

Determined not to be foiled I consulted Mr. Burke, the Somerset Herald, as to possible methods of getting further light, and he suggested a thoroughh search into wills. This was an expensive amusement; but I resolved to go for it. I noted that in the elaborate genealogy just referred to, John Girdlestone's will was recorded as proved at Norwich in 1719, and I got a copy of it, hoping that it might lead me to identify his father, who would also, as I now knew, be the father of Thomas Girdlestone of Letheringsett  "

 

 

The Times, Wednesday, Oct 07, 1863; pg. 9; Issue 24683; col B
     The Earthquake Of Yesterday.  
R. B. GIRDLESTONE.; JOHN BELLOWS.; W. R. A.; C. H. BROMBY.; E. R.; J. T. T..

 

The Times, Monday, Feb 01, 1892; pg. 8; Issue 33549; col A
     The Bible And Modern Criticism.
ARGYLL.; R. B. GIRDLESTONE.; R. ANDERSON

 

The Times, Thursday, Feb 11, 1892; pg. 14; Issue 33558; col D
     The Bible And Modern Criticism.
 T. H. HUXLEY.; R. B. GIRDLESTONE.; V. H. STANTON

 

The Times, Wednesday, Sep 14, 1892; pg. 6; Issue 33743; col B
     The Pharaoh Of The Exodus. R. B. GIRDLESTONE


The Times, Friday, Nov 22, 1895; pg. 12; Issue 34741; col B
     The Revised Apocrypha. R. B. GIRDLESTONE

 

The Times, Thursday, Nov 28, 1895; pg. 7; Issue 34746; col G
     Spelling And English. R. B. GIRDLESTONE

 

The Times, Wednesday, Sep 28, 1910; pg. 7; Issue 39389; col D
     The Revision Of The Prayerbook.
R. B. GIRDLESTONE

The Times, Saturday, Mar 28, 1914; pg. 6; Issue 40483; col G
     Books Published To-Day.
Category: Reviews

The Times, Monday, Apr 09, 1923; pg. 9; Issue 43310; col D
     Obituary. Canon R. B. Girdlestone.
Category: Obituaries

 

 

 

Spanish page translated by babelfish --

When Robert Stephenson Smyth Daden-Powell arrived in 1870 at Charterhouse, this had 120 students and still it was located in London, in the buildings of the old Cartujo Monastery. Its reputation had grown until the point deque many parents who could pay considerable mensualidades by the education of their children, sent them to Charterhouse. But the desire of the founder was respected and still gratuitous scholarships for 40 were reserved ` Gownboys". poor children of "hombres of good cuna", one of which he was the son of a deceased professor of Oxford. -

 To its arrival, Stephe was placed in the third lodged seat and in ` Gownboys". the central apple of the old and vast monastery, to the care of the resident teacher Frederick Kennedy Wilson Girdlestone. - Soon "sin began to will progress its scholastic work to become by an excessive attention to his estudios" unpopular;. - Coming from a numerous family, Stephe did not have difficulty in adjusting to its new life, complying to the "fatigoso sistema" of Charterhouse, It considered to the oldest students in the same form in which it did with his brothers of more age: - they were the their greater ones, his "superiores" and, therefore, its mentors. - They had the right to wait for obedience and a certain dose of servility. - The more soon and gladly he accepted this easy situation the more would be to take to him or with them.