Jacob Mountain
| Jacob Mountain | |
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| 1st Anglican Bishop of Quebec | |
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In office 1793–1825 |
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| Succeeded by | Charles Stewart |
| Member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada | |
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In office 1793–1825 |
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| Member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada | |
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In office 1793–1825 |
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December 1, 1749 Thwaite Hall, Norfolk, England |
| Died | June 16, 1825 (aged 75) Marchmont House, Lower Canada |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Mildred Wale Kentish |
| Alma mater | Caius College, Cambridge |
Jacob Mountain (December 1, 1749 – June 16, 1825) was an English priest who was appointed the first Anglican Bishop of Quebec. He was appointed to both the Legislative Council of Lower Canada and the Legislative Council of Upper Canada.
The third son of Jacob Mountain (1710–1752), of Thwaite Hall, Norfolk, and his third wife, Ann, daughter of Jehoshaphat Postle of Colney Hall, near Wymondham, chairman of the Norfolk Agricultural Association. Mountain was directly related to Michel de Montaigne via his great-grandfather, who also resided at Château de Montaigne, and whose family fled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The younger Jacob Mountain was born at Thwaite Hall on 1 December 1749. He was educated at various Norfolk schools, including Scarning, where he was a pupil of the classicist Robert Potter (1721–1804), and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1774 and MA 1777. In 1779 he was elected a fellow of his college, and, after holding the living of St Andrew's Church, Norwich, was presented to the vicarages of Holbeach, Lincolnshire, and Buckden, Huntingdonshire, which he held together. On 1 June 1788, he was installed as Castor prebendary in Lincoln Cathedral. He was consecrated at Lambeth Palace on 7 July 1793, and at the same time was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD; jure dignitatis). These preferments he owed to the friendship of William Pitt the Younger, who also, on the recommendation of George Pretyman Tomline, gave him the appointment of first Anglican Bishop of Quebec in 1793.
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