Jonathan Holt Titcomb

Jonathan Holt Titcomb (29 July 1819 – 2 April 1887) was an English clergyman, and the first Anglican bishop of Rangoon.

Jonathan Holt Titcomb was born in London on 29 July 1819, and educated at Brompton in 1826, and at Clapham from 1827 to 1830. In 1831, he moved to King's College School, from where he went in 1834 to Thomas Jarrett to be prepared for university. He entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1837, read for mathematical honours, and at the end of his first year gained a college scholarship. He graduated BA (junior optime) in 1841, and MA in 1845, and was created D.D. honoris causa in 1877.

In 1842 he took up residence in the house of Lady Harriet Forde of Hollymount, near Downpatrick, Ireland, as tutor to her nephew, Pierce Butler. He was ordained on 25 September 1842, and acted as curate at Downpatrick. In February 1844, he became curate of St. Mark's church, Kennington, London, and in April 1845 perpetual curate of St. Andrew-the-Less, a large parish in Cambridge where a portion of the population were of the most disreputable and degraded character. He married, in May 1845, Sarah Holt, eldest daughter of John Wood of Southport. They would have two sons, and eight daughters, four of whom died in the bishop's lifetime.

Titcomb very soon made himself popular, and had large congregations attending his church; he instituted Sunday schools and district visitors, and became a very successful open-air preacher. He resigned his living in June 1859, and moved to South Kensington, London. For nearly three years he acted as secretary to the Christian Vernacular Education Society for India.

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