John Martindale Speechly

John Martindale Speechly was the first Bishop of Travancore and Cochin.

Speechly was born on 13 November 1836 in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, the son of Thomas Kelfull Speechly and Sarah, née Bellars. He was educated at Oundle School and St John’s College,Cambridge and ordained in 1860 to a curacy in Peterborough. In 1862 he went to India as a Church Missionary Society missionary, and was stationed at Kunnamkulam until 1863 when he became Principal of the Cambridge Nicholson Institute (diocesan College), Cottayam (Kottayam) a post he held until 1869, and again from 1873 to 1876. He was curate of Hatford, Berkshire 1871-2, of St Mark's, Cambridge 1876-7, and of Horringer, Suffolk 1878. He was elevated to the Episcopate in St Paul's Cathedral on 25 July 1879. After returning to England in 1889, he was Bishop Commissary Diocese of Truro from 1889-91 in the absence of the bishop, George Howard Wilkinson; then Vicar of Faversham from 1892 until his death on 22 January 1898. He is buried at Whittlesey Cemetery.

Speechly married Mary Gray Grove in Trivandrum, India on 6 January 1863 (1835 Bolton, Lancashire – 1913 Richmond, Surrey), daughter of Major Henry Jones Grove and Mary Anne Sinclair. They had 4 daughters and 4 sons:

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