# Robert Froude > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robert_Froude > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robert_Froude.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Froude > Source revision: 1260005860 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/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](/source/Joshua_Reynolds). Minneapolis Institute of Art]] '''Robert Hurrell Froude''' (1771–1859) was [Archdeacon of Totnes](/source/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](/source/Denbury) and of [Dartington](/source/Dartington) in Devon.{{sfn|Rintoul|1993|p=429}} ==Origins== Froude was born at Wakeham Farm in the parish of [Aveton Gifford](/source/Aveton_Gifford) near [Modbury](/source/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](/source/Joshua_Reynolds) in 1762, four years before her marriage. 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](/source/Modbury) in Devon. He was the [patron](/source/Advowson) of [Molland](/source/Molland)-cum-[Knowstone](/source/Knowstone) in Devon in 1767, and was buried at [Aveton Gifford](/source/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,Per list of vicars displayed in Knowstone Church who was followed in 1804 by his son Rev [John Froude](/source/John_Froude) II (1777-1852), Vicar of Molland-cum-Knowstone, an extreme example of the "hunting parson". ==Career== Froude matriculated at [Oriel College, Oxford](/source/Oriel_College%2C_Oxford), in 1788 and obtained his M.A. in 1795. He was [rector](/source/rector_(ecclesiastical)) of [Denbury](/source/Denbury) when he assumed his new parish at [Dartington](/source/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](/source/Richard_Hurrell_Froude) who was involved in the formation of the [Oxford Movement](/source/Oxford_Movement);{{sfn|Froude|1838|p=}} the railway engineer and acclaimed hydrodynamicist [William Froude](/source/William_Froude){{sfn|Simmons|Biddle|1997|p=47}} and the historian [James Anthony Froude](/source/James_Anthony_Froude).{{sfn|Markus|2005|p=}} A graduate of [Oriel College, Oxford](/source/Oriel_College%2C_Oxford),{{alox2|title=Froude, Robert Hurrell}} for many years he was the [Rector](/source/Rector_(ecclesiastical)) of [Dartington](/source/Dartington) . and [Denbury](/source/Denbury). He died on 16 February 1859. ==References== {{Reflist|refs= {{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=}} {{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=}} {{citation|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/bios/rhfroude.html |via=Project Canterbury|title=Richard Hurrell Froude |location=London|work= The Catholic Literature Association|date= 1933}} {{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}} {{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}} }} ===Sources=== {{refbegin|2|indent=yes}} *{{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}} {{refend}} {{S-start}} {{S-rel|en}} {{S-bef|before=[Ralph Barnes](/source/Ralph_Barnes_(archdeacon))}} {{S-ttl|title=[Archdeacon of Totnes](/source/Archdeacon_of_Totnes)|years=1820–1859}} {{S-aft|after=[John Downall](/source/John_Downall) }} {{S-end}} {{Archdeacons of Totnes}} {{Diocese of Exeter}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Froude, Robert}} Category:Archdeacons of Totnes Category:1771 births Category:1859 deaths --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Robert Froude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Froude) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Froude?action=history)). 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