Bishop of Southwark (suffragan)
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The Right Reverend Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs |
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| Bishop of Coventry | |
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| Diocese | Coventry |
| Installed | 1918 |
| Term ended | 1922 |
| Successor | Charles Lisle Carre |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Southwark (suffragan), in Rochester Bishop of Worcester |
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| Ordination | 1869 |
| Consecration | 1891 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman |
| Born | 2 February 1845 |
| Died | 2 April 1922 (aged 77) |
| Buried | Old Coventry Cathedral |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Spouse | (1) Lady Barbara Legge; (2) Frances, dau. of 5th Viscount Barrington |
Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs (2 February 1845 – 14 April 1922), until 1898 known as Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman, was an influential Church of England clergyman who served as the only Bishop of Southwark to be a suffragan bishop (in the Diocese of Rochester), the 105th Bishop of Worcester and, latterly, as the inaugural bishop of the restored see of Coventry in the modern era.
Yeatman was born at Manston House, Dorset, the younger son of Harry Farr Yeatman JP by his marriage to Emma, daughter and heiress of Harry Biggs, of . He was educated at Winchester College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a Dixie Scholar, and eventually (1905) an Honorary Fellow. He was ordained in 1869 and after a curacy in Salisbury became chaplain to the bishop in 1875. That same year he married firstly Lady Barbara Legge, daughter of the 4th Earl of Dartmouth.
He was successively vicar of Netherbury and Sydenham before becoming Bishop of Southwark (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Rochester) in 1891, a post he was to hold for fourteen years before appointment as Bishop of Worcester in 1905. During his years there Yeatman-Biggs forged very close links with the Episcopal church in the United States. In 1898, he inherited the estate of his brother, General Yeatman-Biggs CB, and assumed the additional name of Biggs by Royal licence.
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