Charles Trimnell

Charles Trimnell (1663–1723) was an English bishop. He was a Whig in politics, and known for his attacks on High Church views, writing on the subordination of the Church of England to the state. After the accession of George I of England in 1714 he was in the royal favour and influential.

Charles Trimnell

Life

He was the son of another Charles Trimnell (c. 1630–1702), rector of Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1681, and graduated B.A. in 1688.^[1]

Sir John Trevor, Master of the Rolls, gave him an appointment on his graduation, as preacher of the Rolls chapel. He travelled to the Netherlands with Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland in 1689; Sunderland was a Roman Catholic convert of the end of the reign of James II, who returned to England in 1691 as an Anglican Whig, employing Trimnell as chaplain at Althorp. He was rector of Bodington, in Sunderland's gift, in 1694, and of Brington, the local parish of Althorp, in 1696. In 1698 he became archdeacon of Norwich.^[1]

A royal chaplain under Queen Anne, he became rector of Southmere in 1704, and of St Giles' Church, Norwich in 1705. He was rector of St James, Westminster in 1706, and Bishop of Norwich in 1708. In March 1710 he spoke forcefully in the House of Lords for the impeachment of Henry Sacheverell.^[1] He preached in 1712 to the House of Lords what Jonathan Swift called a "terrible Whig sermon" in the Journal to Stella, sufficiently controversial that the Lords declined to thank him and order it printed.^[2]

He was in high favour on the accession of George I in 1714.^[3] He became Clerk of the Closet, and Bishop of Winchester in 1721. The Black Act of 1723 was passed at his instigation, to deter poaching of deer at Bishop's Waltham.^[4]

Family

By his wife Henrietta Maria, daughter of William Talbot, bishop of Durham, he had two sons who died in infancy. She died in 1716, and in 1719 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edmund Wynne of Nostell, Yorkshire, second baronet, and widow of Joseph Taylor of the Temple.^[1]

Notes

1 2 3 4 "Trimnell, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
↑ http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97s/letter40.html
↑ Rowan Strong, Anglicanism and the British Empire C.1700–1850 (2007), p. 38.
↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41968

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Moore	Bishop of Norwich 1708–1721	Succeeded by Thomas Green
Preceded by Jonathan Trelawny	Bishop of Winchester 1721–1723	Succeeded by Richard Willis

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 88038776 LCCN: n83051081 ISNI: 0000 0000 6304 6074 GND: 1020168404 BNF: cb119973901 (data) NLA: 36098308

Bishops of Norwich

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Early modern	Richard Nykke William Rugg Thomas Thirlby John Hopton John Parkhurst Edmund Freke Edmund Scambler William Redman John Jegon John Overall Samuel Harsnett Francis White Richard Corbet Matthew Wren Richard Montagu Joseph Hall Edward Reynolds Anthony Sparrow William Lloyd John Moore Charles Trimnell Thomas Green John Leng William Baker Robert Butts Thomas Gooch Samuel Lisle Thomas Hayter Philip Yonge Lewis Bagot George Horne Charles Manners-Sutton

Late modern	Henry Bathurst Edward Stanley Samuel Hinds John Pelham John Sheepshanks Bertram Pollock Percy Herbert Launcelot Fleming Maurice Wood Peter Nott Graham James

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Early modern	Richard Foxe Thomas Wolsey Stephen Gardiner John Ponet Stephen Gardiner John White Robert Horne John Watson Thomas Cooper William Wickham William Day Thomas Bilson James Montague Lancelot Andrewes Richard Neile Walter Curle Brian Duppa George Morley Peter Mews Jonathan Trelawny Charles Trimnell Richard Willis Benjamin Hoadly John Thomas Brownlow North

Late modern	George Pretyman Tomline Charles Sumner Samuel Wilberforce Harold Browne Anthony Thorold Randall Davidson Herbert Ryle Edward Talbot Frank Woods Cyril Garbett Mervyn Haigh Alwyn Williams Falkner Allison John Taylor Colin James Michael Scott-Joynt Tim Dakin

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