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- BIOGRAPHY
The Hon. and Right Rev. Edward Carr Glyn was born in London on 21 November 1843, the youngest child of George Carr Glyn, who in 1869 became the 1st Baron Wolverton, and Marianne Grenfell.
He was educated at Harrow School and University College, Oxford and ordained in 1868. After a curacy in Doncaster, Glyn was the domestic chaplain to William Thompson, the Archbishop of York, and then held incumbencies at St.Mary's Beverley, St.George's Minster, Doncaster and St.Mary Abbots Church, Kensington. He became an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria and was the Bishop of Peterborough from 1897 until 1916.
On 4 July 1882 in London, Edward Glyn married Lady Mary Emma Campbell, daughter of George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower. They became the parents of one son and two daughters.
Glyn died on 14 November 1928 in London; his widow died there on 22 March 1947.
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