{{Short description|Archdeacon of Totnes in Devon}} {{about||the English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect|Robert Edmund Froude}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:RobertHurrellFroude ByWilliamBrockedon.jpg|thumb|Portrait by William Brockedon (1832), National Portrait Gallery, London]] [[File:PhillisHurrell ByJoshuaReynolds.png|thumb|Portrait of Froude's mother, Phillis Hurrell, painted in 1762 by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Minneapolis Institute of Art]] '''Robert Hurrell Froude''' (1771–1859) was Archdeacon of Totnes in Devon,{{sfn|Richardson|2013|p=194}} from 1820 to 1859.{{sfn|Wright|1889|p=}} From 1799 to his death he was rector of Denbury and of Dartington in Devon.{{sfn|Rintoul|1993|p=429}}

==Origins== Froude was born at Wakeham Farm<ref name="ag-project.co.uk" /> in the parish of Aveton Gifford near Modbury in Devon, the posthumous son of Robert Froude (1741–1770) of Modbury,{{sfn|Burgoyne |2017}} by his wife Phillis Hurrell (1746-1826) of Aveton Gifford,{{sfn|Burgoyne |2017}} whose portrait was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1762, four years before her marriage.<ref name="MIA" /> The Froude family is first recorded in surviving records at Kingston, South Hams, Devon, in the 16th century.{{sfn|Brown|2006|p=11}} Robert Froude (1741-1770) was the third son of John Froude, from whom he inherited the estates of Edmeston and Gutsford, both in the parish of Modbury in Devon. He was the patron of Molland-cum-Knowstone in Devon in 1767, and was buried at Aveton Gifford in Devon.{{sfn|Brown|2006|p=11}} Phillis Hurrell (1746-1826) was a daughter of Richard Hurrell, Gentleman, of Modbury, by his wife Phillis Collings, whom he married in 1746.{{sfn|Brown|2006|p=11}} In 1767 Robert Froude, as patron, appointed John Froude I as Vicar of Molland-cum-Knowstone,<ref>Per list of vicars displayed in Knowstone Church</ref> who was followed in 1804 by his son Rev John Froude II (1777-1852), Vicar of Molland-cum-Knowstone, an extreme example of the "hunting parson".

==Career== Froude matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, in 1788 and obtained his M.A. in 1795. He was rector of Denbury when he assumed his new parish at Dartington in 1799.{{sfn|Guiney|1904|p=420}}

His marriage to Margaret Spedding produced eight children,{{sfn|Brown|2006|p=10}} who included Richard Hurrell Froude who was involved in the formation of the Oxford Movement;{{sfn|Froude|1838|p=}} the railway engineer and acclaimed hydrodynamicist William Froude{{sfn|Simmons|Biddle|1997|p=47}} and the historian James Anthony Froude.{{sfn|Markus|2005|p=}} A graduate of Oriel College, Oxford,<ref>{{alox2|title=Froude, Robert Hurrell}}</ref> for many years he was the Rector of Dartington .<ref name="rhfroude" /> and Denbury.<ref name="RCG" /> He died on 16 February 1859.<ref name="Trewman" />

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="ag-project.co.uk">{{Cite web |title=Church and chapels In Aveton Gifford |author= |work=ag-project.co.uk |date= |access-date=25 October 2019 |url= http://www.ag-project.co.uk/89/churches |language= |quote=}}</ref>

<ref name="MIA">{{Cite web |title=Mrs. Robert Froude, née Phillis Hurrell (1746-1826), Sir Joshua Reynolds |author= |work=Minneapolis Institute of Art |date= |access-date=25 October 2019 |url= https://collections.artsmia.org/art/3282/mrs-robert-froude-nee-phillis-hurrell-sir-joshua-reynolds |language= |quote=}}</ref>

<ref name="rhfroude">{{citation|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/bios/rhfroude.html |via=Project Canterbury|title=Richard Hurrell Froude |location=London|work= The Catholic Literature Association|date= 1933}}</ref>

<ref name="RCG">{{cite news|title=DIOCESAN|newspaper= The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser|location=Truro, England|date= February 25, 1859|page= 8|issue =2905}}</ref>

<ref name="Trewman">{{cite news|title=Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries|newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser |location=Exeter, England|date= February 24, 1859|issue= 4846}}</ref>

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*{{cite book|last=Brown|first=David K. |title=The Way of a Ship in the Midst of the Sea: The Life and Work of William Froude|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Iimx-zvWccC&pg=PA11|year=2006|publisher=Periscope |isbn=978-1-904381-40-2}} *{{Cite web |title=AG Parish Registers Master Index |last=Burgoyne |first=Chris |work=www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk |date=21 October 2017 |access-date=25 October 2019 |url= http://www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/cjb/ag/pr/agprindF.htm }} *{{cite book|title=Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University|editor-last= Foster|editor-first=J. |volume= II |location= Oxford|publisher= Parker & Co|date=1888}} *{{cite book|last=Froude|first=Richard Hurrell |title=Remains of the Late Reverend Richard Hurrell Froude|url=https://archive.org/details/remainslatereve02frougoog|year=1838|publisher=J. G. and F. Rivington}} *{{cite book|last=Guiney|first=Louise Imogen |title=Hurrell Froude: memoranda and comments|url=https://archive.org/details/hurrellfroudeme00guingoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/hurrellfroudeme00guingoog/page/n457 420]|year=1904|publisher=Methuen & Co.}} *{{cite book|last=Markus|first=Julia |title=J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian : a Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/janthonyfroudela00mark|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-7432-4555-5}} *{{cite book|last=Richardson|first=Edmund |title=Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTF4vwtyLTIC&pg=PA194|year=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-02677-3}} *{{cite book|last=Rintoul|first=M.C. |title=Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxcCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA429|year=1993|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-11932-3}} *{{cite book|last1=Simmons|first1=Jack |author-link1=Jack Simmons (historian) |last2=Biddle|first2=Gordon |title=The Oxford Companion to British Railway History from 1603 to the 1990s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B4ZPAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-211697-0|chapter=Bridges and Viaducts}} *{{cite book|editor-first=William Henry Kearley |editor-last=Wright|title=Some Account of the Barony and Town of Okehampton: Its Antiquities and Institutions: Including the Journals Kept by Messrs. Rattenbury and Shebbeare, Gents. and Burgesses, from the 21 James I., to the Death of William III.; with Notes Genealogical, Descriptive, and Explanatory|url=https://archive.org/details/someaccountbaro00wriggoog|year=1889|publisher=W. Masland}}

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