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{{Portal|Christianity}}'''Henry Cheetham''' (27 April 1827 – 22 December 1899) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1870 until 1882.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/cms_section_vii_parts_1_and_2/Publishers-Note-Part-1.aspx |title=CMS Archive |access-date=2010-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905034923/http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/cms_section_VII_parts_1_and_2/Publishers-Note-Part-1.aspx |archive-date=2008-09-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Who's Who|title=Cheetham, Rt Rev. Henry|id=U184627}}</ref>

==Life== Henry Cheetham was born in Nottingham and educated in Nottingham and at Christ's College, Cambridge.<ref>{{acad|id=CHTN852H|name=Cheetham, Henry}}</ref> Ordained in 1856, he was Vicar of Quarndon, Derbyshire until his appointment to the colonial episcopate.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/pss/179975 Jstor]</ref> He died in Bournemouth on 22 December 1899.<ref>''Obituary Bishop Cheetham'' The Times, Tuesday, Dec 26, 1899; pg. 7; Issue 36022; col F</ref> Doctor of Divinity (DD) 1871.

==Family== Cheetham married, firstly, in 1856, Ann Eaton, daughter of Richard Eaton of Dovecote House, Ashover.<ref>{{cite news |title=Marriages |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001084/18560613/120/0005 |work=Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal |date=13 June 1856|page=5}}</ref><ref name="Dod">{{cite book |title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland|date=1884 |publisher=Whittaker |pages=205–206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0A4OIdXsCf0C&pg=PA205 |language=en}}</ref> He married, secondly, on 6 January 1875, at Ullenhall church, Mary Rosa Newton, one of the officiating clergy being her brother Horace Newton.<ref>{{cite news |title=Married |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000249/18750116/064/0005 |work=Leamington Spa Courier |date=16 January 1875|page=5}}</ref> She died in Sierra Leone, later that year.<ref name="Dod"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Presentation of Bishop Cheetham to the Vicarage of Rotherham |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000052/18811207/005/0002 |work=Derby Mercury |date=7 December 1881|page=2}}</ref> He married, thirdly, in 1882, Isabelle Rutter, daughter of William Rutter of Clapton.<ref name="Dod"/>

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