▶Date of birth:  26 January 1796        Place of birth: London

▶Father:  Charles Arnold Esq.     Mother:  Mary Bicknell

▶Spouse(s):  (1) Elizabeth Catharine Bicknell; (2) Jane Piggott    Date(s) of marriage:  (1) 9 November 1822; (2) 2 October 1826     Place(s) of marriage: (1) Holborn, London; (2) Dunstable, Bedfordshire

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican), Schoolmaster

▶Lifestory: Frederick Arnold served as Curate of St Mary’s, Cheltenham in the 1830s, before he moved to Gloucester as a curate who was also Master of the Crypt School. Arnold was born in London in 1796, the son of Charles Arnold Esq., and his wife Mary (née Bicknell). In 1822 he married Elizabeth Catharine, youngest daughter of Charles Bicknell, of Spring Garden Terrace, London, probably a cousin; she died childless in March 1825. He then matriculated at Queens’ College, Cambridge about the age of thirty, in 1826, BA 1830. During the year he entered Cambridge he married for a second time, to Jane Sarah Mary, eldest daughter of the Revd. Solomon Piggott, Rector of Dunstable, Bedfordshire. The couple had ten children, seven daughters and three sons; the births of their first two daughters were registered in Cambridge.

Arnold was ordained Deacon in 1830, and Priest (both Lincoln) in 1831. In 1830 he was licensed Curate of his father-in-law’s parish of Dunstable 1830-31, before becoming Curate of St Mary’s, Cheltenham, in 1831. By 1835, Frederick lived at the grand Marle Hill House (now The Grange), Evesham Road, in Prestbury, where he remained Curate to the Revd. Francis Close, Vicar of St Mary's, Cheltenham and was also a schoolmaster. In February 1838 his house on Marle Hill was burgled. By December 1838 he was Curate of St Mary de Crypt, Gloucester, where he remained until 1842; he was Master of the Crypt School in Gloucester 1841-6 and Curate of St Mary Magdalene, London Road, Gloucester 1843-52, a sinecure in a very pleasant little building. At the same time he was also Curate of St Thomas’s, Brampton, Derbyshire, where he had moved by the time of the national census in 1851.

He was appointed Perpetual Curate of Brimington, Derbyshire, in 1852 and remained there until his death in 1873. His eldest son, also called Frederick Arnold (1833-91), was also ordained, and was a literary figure and author; in his book Robertson of Brighton (1886) he covers Robertson’s curacy at Christ Church, Cheltenham.

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▶Date of death:   17 August 1873     Place of death:

▶Date of burial:   23 August 1873      Place of burial:  Brimington, Derbyshire

▶Notes:        ID: 9581

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden