1. George Henry Somerset Walpole, known as Somerset Walpole was an Anglican priest, bishop, teacher and author.
12 Facts About Somerset Walpole
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Somerset Walpole published more than twenty books on theology and practical religious matters.
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Somerset Walpole was born in Balderton, Nottinghamshire, the son of the Rev Robert Seymour Somerset Walpole, vicar of St Giles's, Balderton, and Elizabeth, daughter of Reverend Frederick Apthorp, rector of Gumley, Leicestershire.
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Somerset Walpole's father had been an army officer before taking holy orders, and he envisaged a military career for his son; Somerset Walpole was from an early age drawn to the church.
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Somerset Walpole was educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first class degree in theology in 1877.
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From 1878 Somerset Walpole combined the teaching post with that of curate of St Mary's, Truro, and was successively Priest-Vicar and Succentor of the cathedral.
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In 1882 Somerset Walpole married Mildred Helen, daughter of Charles Foster Barham.
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Somerset Walpole served in Truro until 1882, when he was offered the incumbency of St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Somerset Walpole held the post concurrently with that of warden of St John's theological college, Auckland.
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From 1889 to 1896 Somerset Walpole was professor of dogmatic theology in the General Theological Seminary, New York; In 1896 he returned to England, serving as principal of Bede College, Durham until 1903.
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Somerset Walpole died suddenly on 4 March 1929, at the age of 74.
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Somerset Walpole's funeral was at the cathedral; he was buried in the country churchyard of Dalmahoy, East Lothian, alongside his wife who was buried there in 1925.