Rigaud, Stephen Jordan, 1816-1859

Rigaud, Stephen Jordan; eldest son of Rev.Stephen Peter Rigaud FRS, Radcliffe Observer and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford Univ., and Christian Walker, sister of Gibbes Walker Jordan (qv) ; b. 27 Mar 1816 ; ed. Greenwich and Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Jan 1834 ; 1st cl.Classics and 1st cl.Mathematics 1838 ; BA 1841 ; MA 1842 ; BD and DD 1854 ; Petre Fellow, Exeter Coll. 30 Jun 1838 – Jul 1841, vacated by marriage ; ordained deacon 1840, priest 1841 (both Oxford) ; Tutor, Exeter Coll. 1842-6 ; Assistant Master (Classics) Oct 1846 – Sep 1850, owing appointment to his personal friendship with Henry George Liddell, the School’s new Head Master ; House Master of 1 Little Dean’s Yard ; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Cambridge 1847 ; applied unsuccessfully for Headmastership of Rugby School 1849 (see Testimonials … in favour of Rev.S.J.Rigaud, 1849) ; Head Master, Queen Elizabeth’s GS, Ipswich Sep 1850 – Dec 1857 ; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1856 ; consecrated Bishop of Antigua 2 Feb 1858 ; editor of Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols, 1841, and author, sermons ; m. 6 Jul 1841 Lucy Frances Sarah, sister of Benjamin Louis Vulliamy (qv) ; d. of yellow fever 17 May 1859. ODNB.

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