Name Edward Fortescue | Education Wadham College, Oxford | |
Edward Bowles Knottesford-Fortescue was an English Anglican priest in the 19th century.
He was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1816 and educated at Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1840. After a curacy in Billesley he became the incumbent at Wilmcote. In 1851 he became Provost of St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth, a post he held for twenty years.
Having resigned as Provost in 1871, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1872; unable, as a married man, to be ordained in the Catholic Church he lived as a layman acting as principal to a Catholic school in Holloway. One of his son was Adrian Fortescue (1874–1923), a Roman Catholic priest, liturgist, Byzantine scholar and adventurer. His fourth son was George Knottesford Fortescue (1847-1912) who became keeper of printed books in the British Museum in 1899.
He died on 18 August 1877.