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John Kaye 21st Master 1814-1830.

R.Rothwell (probably) (artist)‎

Bishop John Kaye (27 December 1783, Hammersmith – 18 February 1853, Riseholme, Lincolnshire) was an English churchman. He was born the only son of Abraham Kaye in Hammersmith, London and educated at the school of Sir Charles Burney in Hammersmith and then Greenwich. He entered Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated Senior Wrangler in 1804. He was the 21st Master of Christ's College from 1814 to 1830, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1814, Bishop of Bristol from 1820 to 1827 and Bishop of Lincoln from 1827 until his death. He reformed the educational requirements for the Anglican clergy and attacked the Tractarians for betraying the English Reformation. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1811.[Wiki} Richard Rothwell (20 November 1800 – 13 September 1868) was a nineteenth-century Irish portrait and genre painter. He worked as a studio assistant to Thomas Lawrence. When Lawrence died in 1830, Rothwell completed many of his unfinished works and was poised to become the next foremost portrait painter in Britain and Ireland. According to Leoneé Ormond's biographical article in the Grove Dictionary of Art, Rothwell "was at the height of his powers from 1829 to 1831".

The picture was damaged in 1960 after some fracas in the Lloyd Room. It was repaired by Ivor Jones of 161 Ebury St., London SW1. It was insured for £200 for transport to London. Ivor Jones was a young man in 1960 (22 to 23 years old). There was a tear and two punctures over the right eye. In consequence the small piano was to be moved out of the Lloyd Room and into the small lecture Room. The signing in arrangements for the Lloyd Room were also to be improved. [notes in portrait file filing cabinet 1]. The donor R.C.Gregg was from Oriel College[A.L.P.notes filing cabinet 4] Bishop John Kaye (27 December 1783, Hammersmith – 18 February 1853, Riseholme, Lincolnshire) was an English churchman. John Kaye was born in Hammersmith on 27 December 1783. He received his early education under the supervision of Dr Charles Burney, the eminent Greek scholar, and then studied at Christ’s College, Cambridge. In 1804 he achieved his degree with the highest possible distinctions in both classics and mathematics, only the second student to achieve this ‘double’. His brilliance assured him of a glittering career and his College immediately elected him a Fellow. Ten years later, aged 31, he was elected its Master. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1815-16 and then in the latter year was elected Regius Professor of Theology, in which role he revived the lapsed tradition of giving public lectures. He was keen to re-establish study of the Patristic Fathers and his lectures on early church history, illustrated by the writings of Justin Martyr and Tertullian and later published, were much admired. He was considered a great orator in Latin and was much lauded in his official professorial duties. He was made Bishop of Bristol in 1820 aged 36, an extraordinarily young age to be given such preferment. At first, he tried to keep his University connections active but in 1827, he finally resigned his professorship on his translation to Lincoln, a much larger see that he occupied until his death. He remained Master of Christ’s until 1830, when the dual role of bishop and College head proved too great a challenge. Zealous in his episcopal duties, being responsible for a marked revival in church life in his diocese, he was much admired as humble and unassuming, comfortable and accessible to all classes of society. He was a very generous man and gave much to charity, often in hidden ways known only to the recipients and a small circle. He continued to research and write, including producing volumes on Clement of Alexandria and the Athanasian Creed. He also published sermons and charges. He was judged to write accessible and unadorned prose in an age when that was not always considered a virtue. He died as Bishop of Lincoln on 18 February 1853 aged 69.[article from Divinity School 2015]

1832 - 1832

Exhibited in the R.A. 1832.

19th century