3-052-493 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Very Rev. J. C. Ryle, Dean of Salisbury, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Samuel A. Walker. 'The Very Rev. John Charles Ryle, the newly appointed Dean of Salisbury, is well known as a writer on controversial and practical theology. He is eldest son of the late Mr. John Ryle, M.P., and was born at Macclesfield, in 1816. He was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford. At the University he was Craven University Scholar in 1836, and in the following year took a first class in classical honours. He was ordained deacon in 1841 and priest in 1842, by the then Bishop of Winchester, the Right Rev. Dr. Sumner. He was, first, curate in the New Forest, at Exbury, near Southampton. He was then appointed Rector of St. Thomas's, Winchester, by Bishop Sumner, but held this living for only six months, and was then appointed Rector of Helmingham, Suffolk, by Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst. From that parish, after seventeen years, Mr. Ryle was removed, in 1861, to the vicarage of Stradbroke, near Wickham Market, Suffolk, which was conferred on him by the Bishop of Norwich. He has been for some years past Rural Dean of Hoxne, and in 1871 was made an honorary Canon of Norwich Cathedral'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.