Chapter 5: Turvey Rectory and its clergy.
The Chapter commences with a claim that the Reformation did not bring about the Church of England, the Church was the Church of England before the reformation. On a wall in All Saints Church is a list of Rectors from 1154 and this chapter identifies how the Rector was appointed. Mention is made of some of the Rectors such as Richard Rands, Robert and William Friend, Erasmus Middleton and, probably, Turvey’s most famous Rector, Legh Richmond.
Richmond was an powerful evangelical preacher who was frequently called upon to preach throughout the country. A prolific writer, his most successful book ‘The Dairyman’s Daughter’ selling over two million before his death and being published and translated in many countries. Legh Richmond was particularly active for ‘The Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews’.
Following the death of Legh Richmond, the Revd. J. Hawksley was appointed Rector of Turvey, but he was also appointed Rector of Souldrop where he resided. This had a very detrimental impact on the Church in Turvey.
Following her death in 1838, Miss Anna Maria Higgins of Turvey House bequeathed £1000 for the construction of a new Rectory which was completed in 1839.
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