Bowyer Sparke

Bowyer Edward Sparke (27 April 1759 – 4 April 1836) was an English bishop.

Life

He was born at Bury St Edmunds, and was admitted a pensioner at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 27 October 1777, where he matriculated in 1778. He graduated B.A. in 1782 and M.A. in 1785; he was D.D. 1803. He became a Fellow of his college in 1784.

He was tutor to John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland, who then found him a rectory.^[1] He was victor of Scalford, Leicestershire from 1800 to 1805, and vicar of Redmile, 1800 to 1809. He was vicar of St Augustine-the-Less, Bristol, from 1803 to 1810.

He became Dean of Bristol in 1803, Bishop of Chester in 1809, and was Bishop of Ely from 1812 until his death at an age of 77.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1810.^[2]

According to George W. E. Russell, Sparke gave so many of his best livings to his family that it was said locally that you could find your way across the Fens on a dark night "by the number of little Sparkes along the road."^[3]

He died at Ely House, Dover Street, London. His body was interred on 16 April 1836 in a vault in Bishop West's chapel at Ely Cathedral.^[4]

References

"Bowyer Sparke (SPRK777BE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Notes

↑ http://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/HarrattvolumeLXI-3sm.pdf, p. 15.
↑ "Library and Archive". Royal Society. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
↑ George W. E. Russell, Collections & Recollections (Revised edition, Smith Elder & Co, London, 1899), at pages 70-71.
↑ Urban, Sylvanus (1836). "Obituary - Rt Rev B E Sparke, DD Bishop of Ely". The Gentleman's Magazine. V.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Charles Layard	Dean of Bristol 1803–1810	Succeeded by John Parsons
Preceded by Henry Majendie	Bishop of Chester 1810–1812	Succeeded by George Henry Law
Preceded by Thomas Dampier	Bishop of Ely 1812–1836	Succeeded by Joseph Allen

Deans of Bristol

Early modern	William Snow John Whiteheare/Whythere George Carew Henry Joliffe John Sprint Anthony Watson Simon Robson Edward Chetwynd Matthew Nicholas Henry Glemham Richard Towgood Samuel Crossman Richard Thompson William Levett George Royse The Hon Robert Booth Samuel Creswick Thomas Chamberlayne William Warburton Samuel Squire Francis Ayscough Cutts Barton John Hallam

Late modern	Charles Layard Bowyer Sparke John Parsons Henry Beeke Thomas Musgrave John Lamb Gilbert Elliot Francis Pigou Wynne Willson Edward Burroughs Henry de Candole Harry Blackburne Evered Lunt Douglas Harrison Horace Dammers Wesley Carr Robert Grimley David Hoyle

Bishops of Chester

Bishops of Ely

High Medieval	Hervey le Breton Nigel Geoffrey Ridel William Longchamp Eustace Robert of York John of Fountains Geoffrey de Burgh Hugh of Northwold William of Kilkenny Hugh de Balsham John Kirkby William of Louth John Salmon/John Langton Ralph Walpole

Late Medieval	Robert Orford John Ketton John Hotham Simon Montacute Thomas de Lisle Simon Langham John Barnet Thomas Arundel John Fordham Philip Morgan Lewis of Luxembourg Thomas Bourchier William Grey John Morton John Alcock

Early modern	Richard Redman James Stanley Nicholas West Thomas Goodrich Thomas Thirlby Richard Cox Martin Heton Lancelot Andrewes Nicholas Felton John Buckeridge Francis White Matthew Wren Benjamin Lany Peter Gunning Francis Turner Simon Patrick John Moore William Fleetwood Thomas Green Robert Butts Thomas Gooch Matthias Mawson Edmund Keene James Yorke

Late modern	Thomas Dampier Bowyer Sparke Joseph Allen Thomas Turton Harold Browne James Woodford Lord Alwyne Compton Frederic Chase Leonard White-Thomson Bernard Heywood Edward Wynn Noel Hudson Edward Roberts Peter Walker Stephen Sykes Anthony Russell

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 50750939

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.