Huyshe Yeatman Biggs


Huyshe Wolcott YeatmanBiggs , until 1898 known as Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman, was an influential Church of England clergyman who served as the only Suffragan Bishop of Southwark, the 105th Bishop of Worcester and, latterly, as the inaugural bishop of the restored see of Coventry in the modern era.

Yeatman was born at Manston House, Dorset, the younger son of Harry Farr Yeatman JP by his marriage to Emma, daughter and heiress of Harry Biggs, of Stockton House, Wiltshire. He was educated at Winchester College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a Dixie Scholar, and eventually an Honorary Fellow. He was ordained in 1869 and after a curacy in Salisbury became chaplain to the bishop in 1875. That same year he married firstly Lady Barbara Legge, daughter of the 4th Earl of Dartmouth.

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