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Family tragedy

Richard Malone continued in his letter to the Bishop of London to describe the impact of his work on him and his family very movingly
Your Lordship may enquire why leave in such circumstances – I should wish for other Preferment if possible in the country or the suburbs of London of equal value to my own. I must therefore inform your Lordship that since I have been in my present charge my wife and children have never returned their health and I have been compelled every year to send them to the country for four or five months.  At the commencement of the present year my wife caught scarlet fever in my district and my whole family and household have been laid down with this terrible disease. I have lost my eldest little boy in this fever and this sad bereavement has made me all the more conscious to effect a change in my charge. 

I am the ‘least’ unwilling to ask your Lordship’s favourable consideration..My successor will find not only a good organisation but a good prospect of spiritual progress. 

I mentioned to Mr Jennings, our Rural Dean, Rector of St James and Patron of the Living*  my feelings of depression and my sincerity to obtain some other equivalent preferment…   [19] 

Bishop Tait replied: 
I quite feel it…and especially under the melancholy circumstances .. the difficulty is to find any opening …might you [find] it a challenge?   [19] 



* Mr Jennings - former Rector of St John the Evangelist, Smith Square in 1840s at the time of the ICBS grant application for the new church

Contents


    Foundation (1849-1851)
        Why St Matthew's was built
        Laying the Foundation Stone

    Malone (1851-1866)
        Consecration
        The new church
        Revd Richard Malone
              The first 10 years
              Family tragedy
              An alternative solution
              Return to London
              Testimonials
        The congregation
        The Devil's acre

    Turle (1866-1884)
        Revd William Turle
        Mission Hall

    Trevelyan (1884-1907)
        Revd William Trevelyan
        Ministry at St Matthew's
        Clergy House
        The chapel of Clergy House
        Revd Frank Weston
    
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