▶Date of birth:  1823        Place of birth:  Kennington, Surrey

▶Father: Gordon Calthrop  Mother:

▶Spouse(s): Emily    Date(s) of marriage: 1 July 1856      Place(s) of marriage: Stockwell, Surrey

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Gordon Calthrop was a leading Evangelical preacher in London and published numerous sermons and addresses, editing The Home Visitor: a parochial magazine of Bible and Church of England Teaching (1864-6). He was educated at Tonbridge School and at King’s College, London and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1842, Scholar 1846, BA 1847 (first class), MA 1852. He was ordained Deacon in 1851, and Priest (Oxford) in 1853.

In 1852 Calthrop became Curate of St Giles’, Reading, where he served until 1855 (he was Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge 1853-5). He was Curate of St Mary, Brighton 1855-56, and Secretary of the Church Missionary Society 1855-62 (honorary secretary 1852-64). In 1856 he married Emily, youngest daughter of John Mills Thorne, of Turret House, South Lambeth; they had four sons and six daughters. Calthrop was a Select Preacher at Oxford in 1857 (and in 1874), and served as Minister of Holy Trinity, Cheltenham 1858-64; from around 1859 he lived at 16 Pittville Parade (now 32 Evesham Road) and from 1860 until at least 1862 he lived at 4 Clarendon Villas, Pittville (now 12 Pittville Lawn); from 1864-94 was Vicar of St Augustine’s, Highbury.

In the 1870s he lived at Pittville Lodge, Quadrant Road, Highbury New Park, and was living at 9 Highbury Grange, Islington at the time of his death in 1894. From 1889 until his death he was a Prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral.

▶Moved to Pittville from:   Moved from Pittville to: Highbury

▶Date of death: 13 January 1894     Place of death:  Highbury

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial:

▶Notes:        ID: 96

Contributor(s):  Alan Munden/John Simpson