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Rutland Record 29 (2009) RR29 Cover:Layout 1 22/10/2009 16:22 Page 1 Rutland Record 29 Journal of the Rutland Local History & Record Society RR29 Cover:Layout 1 22/10/2009 16:22 Page 2 Rutland Local History & Record Society The Society is formed from the union in June 1991 of the Rutland Local History Society, founded in the 1930s, and the Rutland Record Society, founded in 1979. In May 1993, the Rutland Field Research Group for Archaeology & History, founded in 1971, also amalgamated with the Society. The Society is a Registered Charity, and its aim is the advancement of the education of the public in all aspects of the history of the ancient County of Rutland and its immediate area. Registered Charity No. 700723 PRESIDENT Edward Baines CHAIRMAN Dr Michael Tillbrook VICE-CHAIRMAN Robert Ovens HONORARY SECRETARY c/o Rutland County Museum, Oakham, Rutland HONORARY TREASURER Dr Ian Ryder HONORARY MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Mrs Enid Clinton HONORARY EDITOR Tim Clough HONORARY ARCHIVIST Dr Margaret Bonney EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Officers of the Society and the following elected members: Mrs Audrey Buxton, Mrs Elizabeth Bryan, Rosemary Canadine, David Carlin, Robert Clayton, Hilary Crowden, Dr Peter Diplock, Mrs Kate Don, Michael Frisby (webmaster), Charles Haworth, Mrs Jill Kimber, Chris Wilson EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Edward Baines, Tim Clough (convener), Dr Peter Diplock (assistant editor), Robin Jenkins, Robert Ovens, Professor Alan Rogers (academic adviser), Dr Ian Ryder, Dr M Tillbrook ARCHAEOLOGICAL GROUP Mrs Kate Don (convener) HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT GROUP Mr D Carlin (convener) HONORARY MEMBERS Sqn Ldr A W Adams, Mrs B Finch, Mrs S Howlett, P N Lane, B Waites Enquiries relating to the Society’s activities, such as membership, editorial matters, historic buildings, archaeology, or programme of events, should be addressed to the appropriate Officer of the Society. The Society welcomes new members, and hopes to encourage them to participate in the Society’s activities at all levels, and to submit the results of their researches, where appropriate, for publication by the Society. The address of the Society is c/o Rutland County Museum, Catmose Street, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 6HW, telephone Oakham (01572 758440) website: www.rutlandhistory.org – e-mail: [email protected] Rutland Record 29:Layout 1 22/10/2009 15:46 Page 1 Rutland Record 29 Journal of the Rutland Local History & Record Society No 29 (for 2009) Editorial 330 Notes on Contributors 330 Clerical Incumbents in Early Victorian Rutland Gerald T Rimmington 331 The Venerable Thomas Kaye Bonney (1782-1863) Paul Reeve 339 Old Hall Farm and Martinsthorpe House Nick Hill 353 Rutland History and Archaeology in 2008 Edited by T H McK Clough 363 Front cover illustration: The Ven Thomas Kaye Bonney (Michael J Lee) Back cover illustration: Old Hall Farm, Martinsthorpe, from the south-east (Nick Hill) Contributions and editorial correspondence should be sent to the Honorary Editor, Rutland Local History & Record Society, Rutland County Museum, Catmose Street, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 6HW Published by the Rutland Local History & Record Society - Copyright © RLHRS and authors 2009 ISSN 0260-3322 ISBN-13: 978-0-907464-43-3 Printed by Leicestershire County Council’s Central Print Service, County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA Rutland Record 29:Layout 1 22/10/2009 15:46 Page 2 Editorial : Royal Recognition As heralded in the Editorial for Rutland Record 28 (2008), three anniversaries have been celebrated in 2009: the setting up of the Friends of the Rutland County Museum in 1959, the opening of the museum in 1969, and the founding of the Rutland Record Society in 1979. Thanks to much hard work behind the scenes, mainly by the Friends and museum staff, the high point of this triple celebration was a visit to the museum on 7th June 2009 by HRH The Duke of Gloucester, whose mother, HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, had opened the museum. The original ‘Friends HRH The Duke of Gloucester unveils a sixteenth-century deed bearing the of the Museum Fund of the Great Seal of Elizabeth I (photo: Ryan Corbyn Design). County of Rutland’ secured the establishment of the museum in the 1794 indoor riding school of the Rutland Fencible Cavalry. Fifty years and nearly £200,000 later, they could show off a wide range of exhibits purchased by them for the collections in premises whose purchase and fitting out they had helped to finance. Many of these purchases have featured in the museum’s annual reports in Rutland Record. The Duke, himself no stranger to farming interests, after visiting the Rutland Show spent well over an hour touring the museum and its agricultural and rural life collections, guided by the Friends’ President, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Kennedy, and many other members of the Friends and museum staff who had the honour of being presented to him. Also present were committee members of the Rutland Local History & Record Society, which remains closely linked with the museum and its work. Before he left, The Duke of Gloucester unveiled a rare sixteenth-century deed for the manor of Ketton bearing the Great Seal of Elizabeth I, newly loaned to the museum by Hanson Cement: we hope to report more fully on this important document in due course. In his farewell remarks, His Royal Highness made it clear that museums of this kind deserved to be valued, supported and encouraged as fulfilling an important role in modern society. Rutland’s Friends are in no doubt that their continuing support will be invaluable in helping to maintain the service in the face of economical pressures on the local authority, and the Local History & Record Society takes a similar view. But there was much to celebrate as all concerned gathered round the anniversary cake. Notes on Contributors Tim Clough is the Society’s Honorary Editor, and was Curator of Rutland Water and has worked on the Rutland of the Rutland County Museum from 1974 to 2002. He has a correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot, the photo- degree in prehistoric archaeology, and has written and edited graphic pioneer. He is currently preparing an article on Fox many works on local history, archaeology and numismatics. Talbot and Rutland. He is a graduate of Brasenose College, Nick Hill lives in south-east Leicestershire and has been Oxford, where he read French and German. recording and researching historic buildings in this part of the Dr Gerald T Rimmington was Professor of Education, country for the last twenty years. He is an active member of Mount Allison University, Canada, until 1981, when he the Vernacular Architecture Group, with an interest in resigned to enter the full-time Anglican ministry. He retired as domestic buildings of all periods. He is a chartered building Rector of Barwell, Leicestershire, in 1995. He is now an surveyor with English Heritage. Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at Paul Reeve retired from a career in Sales and Marketing in the University of Leicester and Chairman of the Committee, 2002. Since then he has contributed a chapter to The Heritage Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society. The contents of Rutland Record reflect the views of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Society or its Editor. The Society tries to ensure that where necessary copyright and reproduction permissions are obtained and acknowledgements included; it apologises for any error or omission and, when brought to its attention, undertakes to include a suitable acknowledgement in the next available issue. 330 Rutland Record 29:Layout 1 22/10/2009 15:46 Page 3 Clerical Incumbents in Early Victorian Rutland GERALD TRIMMINGTON Even though the changes in Rutland in the early that affected the clergy. This article examines the nineteenth century were not as far reaching as in the manner in which clerical incumbents were appointed, industrial areas of England there were nevertheless their qualifications, their incomes and the way in changes in agriculture, in population and in society which some of them related to their parishes. The early Victorian incumbent clergy of England most cases, the church in or near the centre. This may were faced by rapidly changing conditions. The have enabled those parsons to be more attentive to population of the country more than doubled their parishioners than in dispersed settlements, between 1801 and 1851. Canals and railways were though there is no evidence for Goodwin’s suggestion increasing communications between various parts of that this was a factor in inhibiting dissenting growth England. Developing professions and trades were in the county (Goodwin 1993, 118). reducing clerical responsibilities in law, policing, For some incumbents the situation in 1846, as medicine, education and charity administration, so White’s Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland that clergy were able to concentrate more on their shows, was indeed idyllic. All of the parish churches spiritual role. The Bishop of London, C J Blomfield, were well-established. There were no new buildings. noted that ‘in character, habits, attainments, social Incumbencies were not difficult to fill. Yet even a position and general reputation, the ordinary small rural county experiences change. Clerical clergyman of 1860 is a very different being from the incumbents had to cope with developments. A clergyman of 1810’. ‘A decent performance of number of questions come to mind. How were the Divine Service on Sundays’ was good enough in clergy appointed? What were their qualifications? 1810; in 1860 there was a greater concern for What were their stipends? How did they cope with preaching and pastoralia (Brown 1953, 147). their pastoral duties? This article will attempt to For members of the clerical profession at that answer these questions about the early Victorian time Rutland ought to have been an idyllic location. incumbents in England’s smallest county.
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