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'''Eyre Chatterton''' (22 July 1863 – 8 December 1950) was an eminent [[Anglican]] author who served as a [[Bishop]] in India from 1903 to 1926. He was also an amateur [[tennis player]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
He was born in [[Monkstown, County Cork]] on 22 July 1863 and educated at [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College]] and [[Trinity College, Dublin]].<ref>[[Who's Who|“Who was Who” 1897-2007]] London, [[A & C Black]], 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> He was ordained by [[Joseph Barber Lightfoot|Bishop Lightfoot]] in 1887,<ref>"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889</ref> and began his career with a [[Curate|curacy]] at Holy Trinity, [[Stockton-on-Tees]]. He was head of the [[Dublin University]] Mission to [[Chota Nagpur States|Chhöta Nagpur]] from 1891 to 1900 when he returned briefly to England to be [[curate]] of [[St Mary Magdalene, Richmond]], Surrey.<ref>{{cite book | last=[[Richard Malden|Malden Richard (ed)]] | author-link= | title= Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) | location= London | publisher= The Field Press| pages=1082| year=1920 | isbn=}}</ref> In 1902 it was announced he would become the inaugural [[Anglican Bishop of Nagpur|bishop of Nagpur]],<ref>''New Bishopric Of Nagpur'' [[The Times]] Monday, 1 December 1902; pg. 6; Issue 36939; col C</ref><ref name="HampAd1902">{{Cite news | title = New Bishopric Of Nagpur|page =2 col D | newspaper= Hampshire Advertiser | date = 6 December 1902 | access-date = 2016-05-18 | url = http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000495/19021206/050/0002 | via= [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> a post he held for 23 years. He died on 8 December 1950.<ref>Obituary ''Bishop Eyre Chatterton'' [[The Times]] Monday, 11 December 1950; pg. 4; Issue 51871; col E</ref><br />
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Chatterton competed on the amateur tennis tour during the 1880s.<br />
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He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society]] (FRGS) in December 1901.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Court circular |day_of_week=Wednesday |date=11 December 1901 |page_number=9 |issue=36635| }}</ref><br />
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In 1926 he was appointed an assistant bishop in the [[Diocese of Canterbury]].<ref name="DDT1926">{{Cite news | title = Dr. Eyre Chatterton, Formerly Bishop Of Has Been Appointed Assistant Bishop Diocese Of Canterbury|page=3 col B |newspaper=Derby Daily Telegraph | date = 11 December 1926 | access-date = 2016-05-18 | url = http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000327/19261211/008/0003 | via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
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In London in 1933 he married Miss Elizabeth Hunter Blair, the daughter of Major and Mrs Hunter Blair of Broom House, [[Berwickshire]].<ref name="TheScot1933">{{Cite news | title = A Scots Bride Mr Eyre Chatterton and Miss Elizabeth Hunter Blair , Daughter Of Major and Mrs Hunter|page=12 | newspaper= The Scotsman | date = 15 September 1933 | access-date = 2016-05-18 | url = http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19330915/085/0012 | via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
*{{cite book|last=Chatterton|first=Eyre |title=The Story of Fifty Years' Mission Work in Chhota Nagpur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNAOAQAAIAAJ|year=1901|publisher=Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge|display-authors=0}}<br />
*''With the Troops in Mesopotamia'', 1916<br />
*{{cite book|last1=Chatterton |first1=Eyre |last2=Hislop|first2=Stephen|author-link2=Stephen Hislop|author-link3=Richard Carnac Temple |last3=Temple|first3=Sir Richard |title=The Story of Gondwana|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167398|year=1916|publisher=[[Isaac Pitman|Sir I. Pitman & Sons]]|display-authors=0}} with [[Stephen Hislop]] and Sir [[Richard Carnac Temple]]<br />
*{{cite book|last=Chatterton |first=Eyre |author-link=Eyre Chatterton |title=A History of the Church of England in India: Since the Early Days of the East India Company|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.236905|year=1924|publisher=[[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]]|display-authors=0}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Chatterton|first=Eyre |title=Alex Wood, bishop of Nagpur, missionary, sportsman, philosopher: a memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYZbAAAAMAAJ|year=1939|publisher=[[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]]|display-authors=0}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Chatterton|first=Eyre |title=India Through a Bishop's Diary: Or, Memories of an Indian Diocese, by Its First Bishop|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqoAAAAAMAAJ|year=1935|publisher=Society for promoting Christian knowledge|display-authors=0}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Chatterton|first=Eyre |title=Our Anglican Church in India, 1815-1946|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MCnItgAACAAJ|year=1946|publisher=Indian Church Aid Association|display-authors=0}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*Chatterton at [https://archive.today/20130216210349/http://www.tennisarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=996 Tennis Archives]<br />
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