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WILLIAM MOYLE EOaERS. 



(1835-li)20.) 

 (With 1*o jit ha it.) 



" There is no one who knew him with any degree of intimacy who 

 does not feel that he has lost a personal friend, and that the world is 

 poorer by the death of Thomas Kichard Archer Briggs. His humility, 

 his single-heartedness, his great gentleness, his patient goodness, made 

 his quiet influence a potent factor in eTery circle in which he moved." 

 These opening sentences of a brief " In Memoriam " notice appeared 

 in a Plymouth paper just after Briggs's death in January 1891, and 

 were quoted by the late W. Moyle Kogers in the Memoir he contri- 

 buted to this Journal for 1891 (p. 97). I recall them here because 

 they describe as truly the subject of the present Memoir. 



William Moyle Rogers was born at Helston, Cornwall, on July 12, 

 1835, and was educated at Helston Grammar School ; here he was 

 later on Assistant-Master under the late Dr. Augustus Jessopp, 

 afterwai'ds Head Master of the Grammar School, Norwich, and 

 Ganon of Norwich, tlie well-known author of The Gominf^ of the 

 Friars and many other books. 



I had often wondered how it w^as that so able a man as Kogers 

 undoubtedly was, had taken no degree at a University : his daughter 

 has explained this. His father was a lawyer at Helston, and, while 

 the son was still at school there, proposed to send him to Exeter 

 College, Oxford ; but he lost his money in a bank failure, and the 

 University was thus out of the question. Moyle Kogers w^ent to 

 Dublin for a time, hoping to support himself by taking pupils, and 

 reading for a degree in that University ; but his health, never very 

 strong, could not stand the strain of the double work. At this time 

 he fell in with Bishop Gray, who was home on the look-out for men 

 for his diocese of Capetown ; and the Bishop secured his services, 

 took him out to South Africa, and appointed him Vice-Principal of 

 his college there. This Bishop it was who there admitted him to 

 deacon's orders, and afterwards ordained him priest. While still a 

 deacon he was placed in charge of Kiversdale, as no priest was then 

 available for the parish. Directly he was admitted to priest's orders, 

 Rogers took charge of George Town, wdiile the incumbent went home 

 to i)e consecrated Bishop of St. Helena. During that time he resided 

 with Bishop Welby's family at George (1860-62). 



It appears that the climate did not suit Kogers very well ; and in 

 1862 he sailed for home, and for a short time took a post with his 

 cousin. Rev. J. S. Tyacke, then Vicar of Old Torr, afterwards Canon 

 of Truro. Rogers Avas then successively Curate of Yarcombe, Devon ; 

 of Holy Trinity, W. Cow^es, I. of W. ; of Upton -on -Severn, Worcester- 

 shire, and of Chetnole, Dorset. To continue the list of his clerical 

 appointments, he became Incumbent of WoUand, Dorset, in 1869 ; 

 Vicar of Stapleford, Wilts, in 1872 ; Curate of Trusham, Devon, 

 1876-1882 ; and Vicar of Bridgerule, Devon, in 1882. In 1885 his 

 health gave wa}^ and he w^as advised to retire to the climate of 

 Bournemouth, where he resided until his death. 



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