Belcher, Robert Henry

First name(s)

Robert Henry

Surname

Belcher

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Assistant Master of King's College School (1871-1884)
• Chaplin and Master of the University of London Matriculation Class at King's College School, (1874-1886)
• Fellow, King’s College, London (1885)

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• King’s College school London
• King’s College London (1864-1868)

Qualifications

• BA (2:2), Mental and Moral Science, King’s College, London (1867)
• MA, Mental and Moral Science, King’s College, London (1868)
• LLD  (1879) ^{Ref: *2}

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• 1868 deacon Jamaica for Exeter
• 1870 priest London
• 1868-1869 curate St Ives Cornwall diocese Exeter
• 1869-1871 curate S John Baptist Kensington diocese London
• Rector, Otago (Boys) High School and Examining Chaplain Bishop Dunedin (1885)
• Rector, S Michael Lewes diocese Chichester (1896-1916) ^{Ref: *2}

Professional activities

• Granted license to officiate diocese of Dunedin, New Zealand (1885)
• President Savage club Dunedin (1889)
• President Otago Philosophical Institute (1890) ^{Ref: *2}

 

Publications

Author and editor, Degrees and ‘Degrees’, Or traffic in theological, medical and other “diplomas” exposed (London, R. Hardwicke, 1873, 1888) ^{Ref: *2}

Short Exercises in Latin Prose Composition, and Examination Papers in Latin Grammar, etc. (London, Macmillan, 1874, 1879) ^{Ref: *2}

Personal details

Date of birth

6 May 1843

Place of birth

Morice Town, Devonport, Devon, England

Date of death

25 October 1916

Place of death

Lewes, Sussex, England

Family details

Son of John Belcher and Mary Pool. Married Emily Beard on 26 December 1868 in Kensington, London. ^{Ref: *1} Children are Henry Michael F (1869), Florence E (1873), George Francis William (1879)