▶Date of birth:  1813        Place of birth:  Holton, Oxfordshire

▶Father: Godfrey Faussett     Mother: Marianne Elizabeth Bridges

▶Spouse(s): Jemima Ann Amy, only daughter of Thomas Edward  Bridges DD, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford  Date(s) of marriage:  10 May 1853     Place(s) of marriage: St George, Hanover Square, London

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Born Godfrey Faussett, second son of Godfrey Faussett DD, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1831; he migrated as an Exhibitioner to Corpus Christi College, and then to Magdalen College,  BA 1836, MA 1838, BD 1849; Fellow 1848-53. He was ordained Deacon (Oxford) in 1837, and Priest in 1838. He remained a College Fellow until he had to resign the position when he married his cousin Jemima Bridges in 1853; they had five daughters and a son.

In 1860 Godfrey-Faussett was appointed Rector of Edgeworth, Gloucestershire, where he remained until 1864. From about 1866 he and his family lived at Glenfall Lawn, All Saints’ Road, where he remained, a clergyman “without cure of souls”, until 1870, when the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol licensed him as a general preacher in the diocese. In about 1880 the family moved to 10 Oxford Parade, Cheltenham, where he died in 1887, at the age of seventy-four; his wealth at death was sworn at under £4,000.

▶Moved to Pittville from:   Moved from Pittville to: Oxford Parade, Cheltenham

▶Date of death:  8 October 1887    Place of death:  Cheltenham

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▶Notes:        ID: 9865

Contributor(s):  Alan Munden/John Simpson