Blackie, Ernest – Grantham Bishop married into pedigree family

Ernest Blackie (1867-1943)

BORN in Leamington Spa, Ernest Morell Blackie was an Anglican bishop.

Educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and the University of London, he was ordained in 1891.

He was a curate at St Mark’s Gloucester and then a minor canon at Rochester Cathedral until 1900. He later became the rector of Limpsfield and then St Paul’s York Place, Edinburgh before becoming the vicar of Windsor and an Honorary Chaplain to the King.

From 1921 to 1937 he was a residentiary canon at Lincoln Cathedral and for seven years a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Lincoln, five as Suffragan Bishop of Grantham and two as Bishop of Grimsby, before his final appointment as Dean of Rochester a position he held until his death in 1943.

In 1903 Blackie married Caroline Stewart, daughter of James Haldane Stewart Jr. and Emily Leveson-Gower of Titsey Place.

Emily was a member of one of Britain’s most aristocratic families and was a descendant of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Clarence, Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick or Warwick the Kingmaker William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford and John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex as well as Henry VII of England and James V of Scotland.