SHORT, THOMAS VOWLER, eldest son of Ven. William Short DD, Archdeacon of Cornwall, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Tilliman Hodgkinson, Rector of Sarsden, Oxfordshire; b. 16 Sep 1790; adm. 1803; KS 1805; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1809, matr. 17 May 1809, Westminster Student, Tutor and Censor 1816-29; 1st cl. Classics and 1st cl. Mathematics 1812; BA 1813; MA 1815; BD 1824; DD 1837; Proctor 1823; Public Examiner 1820, 1821, 1824; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1813, priest 18 Dec 1814 (both Oxford); Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire 1816-23; Select Preacher, Oxford 1823, 1830, Whitehall Preacher 1823 (still 1829); Rector of Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon 1823-6; Rector of Kingsworthy, Hampshire 1826-34; Rector of St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 21 Feb 1834-41; consecrated Bishop of Sodor and Man 30 May 1841; translated to St. Asaph 21 Nov 1846; res. St. Asaph 1870; author, Sketch of the History of the Church of England, 1832, and other works; m. 26 Feb 1833 Mary, widow of John Josias Conybeare (qv), and dau. of Rev. Charles Davis, Fellow of Pembroke Coll., Oxford; d. 13 Apr 1872. DNB.