NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sumner, John Bird, 1780-1862 NRA: Sumner John Bird (1780-1862) Archbishop of Canterbury DNB: Sumner, John Bird (1780-1862), archbishop of Canterbury LBT ID: JoSumne1862 VIAF ID: 15595063 LOC ID: n87912136 | B/BAP: 1780-02-25 DIED: 1862-09-06 |
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Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he was bishop of Chester (1828) and
archbishop of Canterbury (1848). | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF John Bird Sumner, archbishop of Canterbury: John Bird Sumner to Francis Hodgson, 19 July 1820 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) |