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Up for sale the "Archbishop of Canterbury" Charles Longley Hand Signed Free Longley (28
July 1794 – 27 October 1868) was a bishop in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Ripon, Bishop of Durham, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury from
1862 until his death. He was born at Rochester, Kent, the fifth son of the late John educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford,
where he matriculated in 1812, graduating B.A. 1815 (M.A. 1818), B.D. & D.D. 1829. At
Christ Church, Longley was reader in Greek 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8, and
proctor 1827.[3] He was ordained in 1818, and was appointed
vicar of Cowley, Oxford, in 1823.
In 1827, he received the rectory of West Tytherley, Hampshire, and
two years later he was elected headmaster of Harrow School. He held this office until 1836, when he was
consecrated bishop of the new see of Ripon. In 1856
he became Bishop of Durham, and in
1860 he became Archbishop of York. In
1862, he succeeded John Bird Sumner as
Archbishop of Canterbury. Soon afterwards the questions connected with the
deposition of John William Colenso were
referred to Longley but, while regarding Colenso's opinions as heretical and
his deposition as justifiable, he refused to pronounce upon the legal
difficulties of the case.The chief event of his primacy was the meeting
at Lambeth, in 1867, of the
first Pan-Anglican conference of British,
colonial and foreign bishops. His published works included numerous
sermons and addresses. He died at Addington Park, near Croydon. Like Sumner, he was a member of the Canterbury Association from
27 March 1848.
