ERRING TON

Most Rev. George ( 2 son of Thomas Erring ton of Clintz near Richmond, Yorkshire ). b. Clintz 14 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ushaw 1814–21 and English college, Rome 1821–24; sub-deacon 1825, deacon 1826, priest 22 Dec. 1827; D.D. cum præmio 1827; vice rector of English college, Rome 29 May 1832 to 1843; travelled in France and Spain 1832–40; presided over the studies in St. Mary’s coll. Oscott 1843–47; employed at Liverpool and Salford 1848–51; bishop of newly created see of Plymouth 27 June 1851 to March 1855; consecrated in church of St. John, Salford by Abp. Wiseman 25 July 1851; coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman with title of Archbishop of Trebizond in part i bus March 1855 to 2 July 1862; administrator of diocese of Clifton, Oct. 1855 to Feb. 1857; a istant at pontifical throne 5 Dec. 1869; held charge of mi ions in Isle of Man 1865–8; undertook tuition of young theological students at St. Paul’s college, Prior Park, Bath, Oct. 1870 to death; author of Four lectures on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church 1850; The Irish land question 1880. d. Prior Park 19 Jany. 1886. M. Brady’s Episcopal Succe ion , iii , 376, 436, 437, 473 (1877).