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NOTES AND QITERIES. 



[2"* S. VI. 138., AtJG. 21. '58, 



butor will be more successful in deciphering above 

 than J. Eastwood. 



AKCHDEACON CORRIE OF CALCUTTA. 



(2"'' S. V, 132.) 



The following particulars relative to the pa- 

 rentage, birth-place, and education of Dr. Corrie, 

 second Archdeacon of Calcutta, and first Bishop 

 of Madras and Ceylon, will supply the information 

 required by T. Hughes of Chester, and furnish 

 him with some facts not given in the bishop's 

 Memoijs, published by his brothers in 1847, or in 

 any detailed printed biographical notice of the 

 late prelate with which I have met. The data 

 are extracted from my MS. Hierarclvj of Chris- 

 tendom, or Diptycha Ecclesice Universalis, — a 

 work upon which 1 have employed my leisure 

 hours in India for several years past, but which 

 is still far from complete, and containing the Fasti 

 of the church in Great Britain and its colonies 

 from the introduction of Christianity into Eng- 

 land to the present time, thus forming a Bri- 

 tannia Sancta. 



Daniel Corrie, LL.D., of Scottish parentage 

 and origin, born April 10th, 1777, at the pa- 

 rochial schoolhouse of Ardchattan, in Lorn, 

 county of Argyle, N. B. His ancestors were 

 natives of Dumfries-shire, his paternal grand- 

 father having been a miller, in which humble, 

 though respectable position he held the lease of 

 the cornmill of Duncow, in the parish of Kirk- 

 mahoe, about five miles from the town of Dum- 

 fries. His fixther, John Corrie, studied divinity 

 at the University of Edinburgh, and held the post 

 of schoolmaster of the parish of Ardchattan, in 

 Argyleshire, where he married a Miss M'Nab, 

 (who died Feb. lOlh, 1798), and the future bishop 

 was born, as above stated. Mr. Corrie, shortly 

 afterwards, resigned his school, and removed, with 

 Lis wife and children, to the paternal roof at the 

 mill of Duncow, Daniel receiving his earlier edu- 

 cation at the parish school of Kirkmahoe. Mr. 

 Corrie, leaving his family in Dumfries-shire, next 

 proceeded to England, and having obtained an 

 introduction to Dr. Pretyman*, then Bishop of 

 Lincoln, was, after due examination of his quali- 

 fications as " a literate person " (and licentiate of 

 the Presbyterian Church of Scotland), ordained 

 by that prelate, who gave him the curacy of the 

 parish of Colsterworth, near Grantham, in his 

 diocese, where he resided for many years ; and it 

 is probable that his son's education was continued 

 at the ancient endowed grammar-school of Gran- 

 tham (founded 1528). The Eev. John Corrie 

 became, subsequently. Vicar of Osbournby, also 

 in the diocese of Lincoln, and Rector of Morcott, 

 in the diocese of Peterborough, both livings of 



[* Afterwards Tomline.] 



considerable value ; but he appears to have chiefly 

 resided at Colsterworth, in Lincolnshire, until his 

 death, which occurred at a very advanced age, in 

 April, 1829, before his eldest surviving son had 

 been elevated to the episcopate. Daniel spent the 

 first seventeen years of his life at home, and the 

 succeeding four, 1794 to 1798, principally in 

 London and its neighbourhood with a friend, who 

 had expressed an intention of providing for him 

 in life ; but after his mother's sudden death, he 

 returned to his father's roof in May, 1798, and 

 removed in October following from Colsterworth 

 to Grantham. In summer of 1799, he was entered 

 at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and went into residence 

 there in October of the same year : at Christmas, 

 1800, he was appointed to an exhibition at Trinity 

 Hall, and removed thither in January, 1801. 

 After keeping the usual number of terms at the 

 University of Cambridge, Mr. Corrie was ordained 

 Deacon, June 13th, 1802, by his father's former 

 patron, the Bishop of Lincoln, to the curacy of 

 Buckminster in Leicestershire ; subsequently he 

 was also nominated Curate of Stoke Rochford, 

 which latter curacy he held till his acceptancy of 

 an Indian Chaplaincy. In Easter term, 1804, he 

 returned to Cambridge for the purpose of keeping 

 his law exercises, and was admitted to the degree of 

 LL.B. in Easter term, 1805 : he had been ordained 

 Priest, June 10, 1804, at Buckden, by the Bishop 

 of Lincoln, Dr. Tomline. Having been appointed 

 a Military Chaplain on the Bengal Establishment 

 of the E. I. Company, he quitted Stoke early in 

 180G, and embarked from Portsmouth, March 30, 

 landing in Calcutta Sept. 20 following. He was 

 successively Chaplain atChunar, 1807 ; Cawnpore, 

 1810, and Agra, 1812, after which he was absent 

 in England on furlough from January, 1815, till 

 August, 1817: then Chaplain at Benares, 1818, 

 and Senior Residency Chaplain at Calcutta, 1819. 

 During the vacancy in the see of Calcutta, caused 

 by the death of Bishop Middleton in July, 1822, 

 followed by that of its first Archdeacon, Dr. 

 Loring, in September following, Mr. Corrie was 

 nominated, by the Governor-General, one of the two 

 Ecclesiastical Commissioners or administrators of 

 the bishopric, until the arrival of Bishop Heber, 

 in October, 1823, who immediately appointed him 

 Archdeacon of Calcutta, and his institution took 

 place on the 20th of that month. It fell to Mr. 

 Corrie's lot, as Archdeacon of Calcutta, to ad- 

 minister the vacant see, as Ecclesiastical Commis- 

 sai'y of the bishopric, on three subsequent occa- 

 sions, — after Bishop Heber's death, from May, 

 1826, to January, 1828; after Bishop James's 

 resignation and death, from August, 1828, to De- 

 cember, 1829; and finally after Bishop Turner's 

 death, from July, 1831, to November, 1832. In 

 1833 he was nominated Bishop of the newly 

 erected see of Bombay, and proceeded to England 

 for consecration, leaving Bengal, Nov. 12, 1834, 



