A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lichfield and other prelates in 

 the consecration at Westminster of George Ridding, who had been head 

 master of Winchester since 1868, as the first Bishop of Southwell, the county 

 of Derby being taken from the diocese of Lichfield to form with Nottingham- 

 shire the new see. 



Bishop Ridding, who resided at Thurgarton Priory, died in 1904, and 

 was succeeded by Edwyn Hoskyns, who had been suffragan Bishop of 

 Burnley since 1901. In 1907 the second Bishop of Southwell entered into 

 residence in his cathedral city, having built a new episcopal residence. 



Nottinghamshire did not produce any clergy of special note either in 

 the evangelical movement at the dawn of the igth century, or in the Oxford 

 movement that followed in its wake ; but in the aftermath of these two 

 great religious revivals within the church a name stands forth that will always 

 take a high position among the clergy of Victoria's reign. Samuel Reynolds 

 Hole, curate and vicar of Caunton from 1844 to 1887, rural Dean of Southwell 

 1873-87, proctor in Convocation 1883-7, and Dean of Rochester from 1887 

 until his death in 1904, was a fine example of a high minded, genial, hard- 

 working parish priest, of whose memory Nottinghamshire will be always 

 proud. 



APPENDIX 



ECCLESIASTICAL DIVISIONS OF THE COUNTT 



From the earliest times of which there is any definite record, the county of Nottingham formed 

 a single archdeaconry of that name ; and this has remained the case in the latter days of its trans- 

 ference to the sees of both Lincoln and Southwell. 



That there were deaneries in the county at least as early as the 1 2th century is clear from the 

 names of witnesses to various charters ; but it is not until we come to the Taxation Roll of 1291-2 

 that we know for certain the names of the different deaneries and of the parishes included within 

 their limits. At this date there were four deaneries : Nottingham, Newark, Bingham and Retford, 

 in addition to the peculiar jurisdiction of Southwell. This fivefold division was maintained at the 

 time of the Valor Ecc/tsiasticus of Henry VIII, and remained the same until some time after the 

 transference of the archdeaconry to the see of Lincoln. 



A subdivision of the ancient deaneries was effected during the fairly vigorous administration of 

 Bishop Jackson of Lincoln in 1856. Twelve rural deaneries were then formed, but the old titles 

 were retained, there being I, 2 and 3 Nottingham ; I, 2 and 3 Bingham ; I and 2 Newark ; 

 i , 2 and 3 Retford ; and Southwell. 



In 1884 on the establishment of the see of Southwell the rural deaneries were recast and 

 renamed, the number being reduced to eleven : Mansfield, Nottingham, South Bingham, Bingham, 

 West Bingham, Collingham, Newark, Retford, Tuxford, Worksop and Southwell. 



Under Bishop Hoskyns the planning and number of the deaneries has undergone further change ; 

 they now are : Bawtry, Bingham, Bingham South, Bingham West, Bulwell, Gedling, Mansfield, 

 Newark, East Newark, Norwell, Nottingham, Retford, Southwell, Tuxford, Worksop. 



