CLOSE

Very Rev. Francis ( youngest son of Rev. Henry Jackson Close, R. of Bent worth, Hants. who d. April 1806 ). b. near Frome 11 July 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and St. John’s coll. Cam. Scholar 1817, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1857; C. of Church Lawford, Warws. 1820–22; C. of Willesden and Kings bury 1822–24; P.C. of Cheltenham 1826–56; Dean of Car lisle 24 Nov. 1856 to Aug. 1881 when he resigned; P.C. of St. Mary, Car lisle 1865–68; a most popular evangelical preacher; author of upwards of 70 books. d. Morrab house, Penzance 18 Dec. 1882. buried Car lisle cemetery 23 Dec. The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1861 , 32–33, portrait ; Illust. news of the world viii , (1861), portrait ; Congregationalist iv , 562–72 (1875); A golden decade of a favoured town by Contem Ignotus (1884) 11–69; E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastic a (1842) 429–30; I.L.N. lxxxii , 45 (1883), portrait .