Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs

The Right Reverend Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs
Bishop of Coventry

Diocese	Coventry
Installed	1918
Term ended	1922
Successor	Charles Lisle Carre
Other posts	Bishop of Southwark (suffragan), in Rochester Bishop of Worcester
Orders
Ordination	1869
Consecration	1891
Personal details
Birth name	Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman
Born	(1845-02-02)2 February 1845
Died	2 April 1922(1922-04-02) (aged 77)
Buried	Old Coventry Cathedral
Nationality	British
Denomination	Church of England
Spouse	(1) Lady Barbara Legge; (2) Frances, dau. of 5th Viscount Barrington

Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs (2 February 1845 – 14 April 1922), until 1898 known as Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman, was an influential Church of England clergyman who served as the only Bishop of Southwark to be a suffragan bishop (in the Diocese of Rochester), the 105th Bishop of Worcester and, latterly, as the inaugural bishop of the restored see of Coventry in the modern era.

Yeatman was born at Manston House, Dorset, the younger son of Harry Farr Yeatman JP by his marriage to Emma, daughter and heiress of Harry Biggs, of Stockton House, Wiltshire. He was educated at Winchester College^[1] and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a Dixie Scholar,^[1] and eventually (1905) an Honorary Fellow.^[2] He was ordained in 1869 and after a curacy in Salisbury became chaplain to the bishop in 1875. That same year he married firstly Lady Barbara Legge, daughter of the 4th Earl of Dartmouth.^[3]

He was successively vicar of Netherbury and Sydenham before becoming Bishop of Southwark (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Rochester) in 1891, a post he was to hold for foyrteen years before appointment as Bishop of Worcester in 1905.^[4] During his years there Yeatman-Biggs forged very close links with the Episcopal church in the United States.^[5] In 1898, he inherited the estate of his brother, General Yeatman-Biggs CB, and assumed the additional name of Biggs by Royal licence.^[1]

In 1918 he took on the task of reviving the Coventry diocese, during which time he came to national prominence when an unscrupulous adventurer accused him of influencing a vulnerable pensioner into leaving him her assets.^[6] Not only were the charges completely unfounded, the much smaller sum he had received was quite properly re-distributed to worthy Anglican causes.

After Yeatman-Biggs's death, a bronze effigy of him was commissioned by Hamo Thornycroft,^[7] and was the only artefact to survive more or less intact the bombing of Coventry Cathedral in 1940.^[8]

Effigy of Yeatman-Biggs

Works

The Efficiency and Inefficiency of a Diocese, London, SPCK, 1909
Life in an English Diocese, London, SPCK, 1915^[9]

References

1 2 3 "Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
↑ "Yeatman (post Yeatman-Biggs), Huyshe Wolcott (YTMN864HW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ Rt. Rev. Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs. thePeerage.com. Retrieved on 26 November 2008.
↑ The Times, Wednesday, 14 December 1904; p. 9; Issue 37577; col E New Bishops.(of Worcester) Category: Official Appointments and Notices
↑ "American addresses" Yeatman-Biggs, H.W: London, Longmans,1916
↑ The Times, Thursday, 27 October 1921; p. 4; Issue 42862; col F Probate, Divorce, And Admiralty Division. Charges Of Undue Influence Against A Bishop Withdrawn., In The Estate Of Amy Mary Wheeley Lea, Deceased-Jacomb V. Biggs
↑ 'H. W. Yeatman-Biggs; 1st Bishop of Coventry'. Public Art Research Archive, Sheffield Hallam University. Retrieved on 26 November 2008.
↑ St Michael's - The Old Cathedral. Retrieved on 26 November 2008.
↑ Life in an English Diocese, being the second quinquennial visitation charge of Huyshe, Lord Bishop of Worcester

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Church of England titles
New title	Bishop of Southwark 1891 – 1905	Succeeded by Edward Stuart Talbot
Preceded by Charles Gore	Bishop of Worcester 1905 – 1918	Succeeded by Ernest Harold Pearce
New creation	Bishop of Coventry 1918 – 1922	Succeeded by Charles Lisle Carr

Bishops of Worcester

Early Medieval	Bosel Oftfor Egwin of Evesham Wilfrith (I) Milred Waermund Tilhere Heathured Denebeorht Heahbeorht Ealhhun Werferth Æthelhun Wilfrith (II) Koenwald St Dunstan St Oswald Ealdwulf

High Medieval	Wulfstan (I) Leofsige Beorhtheah Lyfing Ælfric Puttoc Lyfing Ealdred St Wulfstan (II) Samson Theulf Simon John de Pageham Alured Roger Baldwin of Forde William of Northall Robert FitzRalph Henry de Sully John of Coutances Mauger Randulf of Evesham Walter de Gray Sylvester William de Blois Walter de Cantilupe Nicholas of Ely Godfrey Giffard

Late Medieval	John St German William Gainsborough Walter Reynolds Walter Maidstone Thomas Cobham Wulstan Bransford Adam Orleton Simon Montacute Thomas Hemenhale Wulstan Bransford John of Thoresby Reginald Brian John Barnet William Whittlesey William Lenn Walter Lyghe Henry Wakefield Robert Tideman of Winchcombe Richard Clifford Thomas Peverel Philip Morgan Thomas Polton Thomas Brunce Thomas Bourchier John Carpenter ("Bishop of Worcester and Westbury") John Alcock Robert Morton Giovanni de' Gigli

Early modern	Silvestro de' Gigli Girolamo Ghinucci Hugh Latimer John Bell Nicholas Heath John Hooper Nicholas Heath Richard Pate Edwin Sandys Nicholas Bullingham John Whitgift Edmund Freke Richard Fletcher Thomas Bilson Gervase Babington Henry Parry John Thornborough John Prideaux George Morley John Gauden John Earle Robert Skinner Walter Blandford James Fleetwood William Thomas Edward Stillingfleet William Lloyd John Hough Isaac Maddox James Johnson Brownlow North Richard Hurd

Late modern	Folliott Cornewall Robert Carr Henry Pepys Henry Philpott John Perowne Charles Gore Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs Ernest Pearce Arthur Perowne William Wilson Cash Mervyn Charles-Edwards Robin Woods Philip Goodrich Peter Selby John Inge

Bishops of Coventry

for earlier Bishops of Coventry, of Coventry and Lichfield, and of Lichfield and Coventry, see Bishop of Lichfield; for the modern suffragans, see Bishop of Coventry (suffragan)

Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs Charles Carre Mervyn Haigh Neville Gorton Cuthbert Bardsley John Gibbs Simon Barrington-Ward Colin Bennetts Christopher Cocksworth

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 9414770

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