John Mackarness
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The Right Reverend John Mackarness |
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| Bishop of Oxford | |
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| Diocese | Diocese of Oxford |
| Predecessor | Samuel Wilberforce |
| Successor | William Stubbs |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 18 May 1845 |
| Consecration | 25 January 1870 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 December 1820 Islington, Middlesex, United Kingdom |
| Died | 16 September 1889 (aged 68) Eastbourne, Sussex, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Spouse | Alethea Buchanan Coleridge |
| Alma mater |
Eton College; Merton College, Oxford |
John Fielder Mackarness (3 December 1820 – 16 September 1889) was a Church of England bishop.
He was born in Islington (then in the county of Middlesex, now in Greater London) on 8 December 1820, the eldest son of John Mackarness, a West India merchant (died 2 January 1870), and Catherine, daughter of George Smith Coxhead, a physician. His younger brother George served as the Bishop of Argyll and The Isles from 1874 to 1883.
He was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford. After matriculation he was elected a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Mackarness was ordained on Sunday 18 May 1845. He was Vicar of St BartholomewTardebigge (1845–1855); Rector of Honiton (1855–1870) and finally Bishop of Oxford (1870–1889). At Eton he was captain of the football club, he rowed in the Merton boat, and was president of the Oxford Union.
From 11 August 1846 to 1855, he held the vicarage of Tardebigge in Worcestershire, and from 1854 to 1868, he was an honorary canon of Worcester Cathedral. On the nomination of William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon, he was appointed to the rectory of Honiton, Devonshire, in 1855, and as such was responsible for the management of Honiton grammar school. This preferment he retained until his appointment to the episcopal bench, holding with it from 1858 a prebendal stall in Exeter Cathedral, and from 1867 the adjoining vicarage of Monkton.
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