▶Date of birth: 24 February 1834         Place of birth: Birmingham

▶Father: Edwin Bartleet      Mother: Henrietta Hiron

▶Spouse(s):  Henrietta Gurney    Date(s) of marriage: 8 January 1874      Place(s) of marriage: St Mark’s, Torwood, Torquay

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican); Archaeologist, Author

▶Lifestory: Samuel Edwin Bartleet married his career in the Church with his passion for archaeology; he lived in Gloucestershire in his forties, and then again near his death, when he lived in Pittville. Bartleet was born in Birmingham in 1834, the eldest son of Dr Edwin Bartleet, surgeon, of Colmore Row, Birmingham, and his wife Henrietta, daughter of Samuel Hiron, of Chipping Campden. He was educated at King’s School, Birmingham, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1853, BA 1857, MA 1860.

After university Bartleet took holy orders; he was ordained Deacon in 1858, and Priest (both Worcester) in 1859, and was licensed Curate of Hallow, Worcestershire 1858-60, and of Prestwich, Lancashire 1861-6. In 1866 he was appointed Vicar of Holy Trinity, Shaw, Oldham 1866-75 and 1877-8; he served as Perpetual Curate of St Saviour’s, Ringley, Lancashire 1875-7. In 1873 he was appointed a Surrogate in the diocese for granting marriage licences, and the following year he married Henrietta, eldest daughter of Henry Gurney Esq., of Hereford; they had no children.

Moving south to Gloucestershire, from 1878 until 1885 he was Vicar of Brockworth; he was offered the opportunity to work in the north again, as Vicar of St Paul’s, Preston, but declined this in favour of transferring into Gloucester as Vicar of St Mark 1885-9.

Alongside the Church, he maintained an interest in archaeology, and was elected FSA in 1890; he was Vice-President of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and wrote a “History of the Manor and Advowson of Brockworth” in the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1882), The borough and manor of Chipping Campden (volume 12; 1884), and several other texts.

1893 saw him as Vicar of Masham in Yorkshire, but from 1899 until his retirement 1910 he served as Rector of Dursley in Gloucestershire, where the living had a gross value of £343; during this time he was a Surrogate in the diocese of Gloucester 1900-24, Rural Dean 1907-10, and became an Honorary Canon of Gloucester Cathedral in 1907. After Dursley Bartleet moved briefly to Cheltenham, but then settled for several years at St Mary de Crypt Rectory in Gloucester. For his last seven years he lived again in Cheltenham, from 1919-24 at Glenmore Lodge, Wellington Square, in Pittville, where he died, at the age of eighty-nine.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Gloucester      Moved from Pittville to: (deceased)

▶Date of death:  27 October 1924      Place of death: Pittville, Cheltenham

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▶Notes:         ID: 16341

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden