John Bird Sumner, archbishop of Canterbury

(1780-1862)

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).
REFERENCES TO John Bird Sumner, archbishop of Canterbury: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IV Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 10 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter II. 1794-1807. Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter XVII. 1820. Found 1: ¶ 5 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ n1 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 5