William Otter
William Otter (23 October 1768 – 20 August 1840) was the first Principal of King's College, London, who later served as Bishop of Chichester.[1]
William Otter | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Chichester | |
 Portrait of Potter, by John Linnell, 1841 | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Chichester |
| Elected | 1836 |
| Term ended | 1840 (death) |
| Predecessor | Edward Maltby |
| Successor | Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 October 1768 |
| Died | 20 August 1840 (aged 71) |
| Parents | Dorothy Wright Otter Rev. Edward Otter |
| Spouse |
Nancy Sadleir Bruère
(m. 1804) |
| Children | 8, including William |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge |
Early life
William Otter was born at Cuckney, Nottinghamshire on 23 October 1768, the son of Dorothy (née Wright) Otter (d. 1772) and the Rev. Edward Otter.[2] He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was later made a fellow.[3]
Career
He was appointed Principal of the newly established King's College, London, in 1831, and held the post until 1836 when he was appointed Bishop of Chichester.[4] Otter established a small college to train schoolmasters in 1840, which was rebuilt in his memory in 1849 as Bishop Otter College, now the main Bishop Otter Campus of the University of Chichester.[5]
Personal life
On 3 July 1804, he married Nancy Sadleir Bruère in Leatherhead, Surrey. Nancy was a granddaughter of George Bruere, British Governor of Bermuda. Together, they had three sons and five daughters:[2]
- The Ven. William Bruère Otter (1805–1876), the Archdeacon of Lewes who married Elizabeth Melvil (1814–1892).[6]
- Sophia Otter (1807–1889), who married the Reverend Henry Malthus (1805–1882), son of Thomas Robert Malthus.
- Caroline Charlotte Otter (1809–1855), who married John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly.[7]
- Jacqueline Elizabeth Otter (1811–1849), who married Alexander Trotter, a banker and stockbroker at Coutts Bank. After her death, he married Isabella Strange, a daughter of Sir Thomas Strange.[lower-alpha 1]
- Maria Otter (b. 1814), who married Sir William Milbourne James, Lord Justice of Appeal.
- Alfred William Otter (1815–1866), who married Anna Louisa de la Hooke (1824–1907).
- Amelia Harriet Otter (1817–1890), who married Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper.
- Reginald William Ongley Otter (1826–1862)
Otter died on 20 August 1840.[8]
Descendants
His eldest son William had four sons and six daughters, including Lt. William Otter RN (1840–1870), and was the grandfather of Hugh Otter-Barry, Bishop of Mauritius.[9] Through his son Alfred, he was a grandfather of Gen. William Dillon Otter.[10]
Through his daughter Jacqueline, he was a grandfather of Coutts Trotter (1837–1887), Vice Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Edward Bush Trotter (1842–1920), Archdeacon of Western Downs, Australia, Col. Sir Henry Trotter.[11] Through his daughter Maria, he was a grandfather of Maj. William Christopher James, who married Effie Gray Millais (the daughter of Effie Gray and John Everett Millais).
References
- Notes
- The children of Alexander Trotter and his second wife, Isabella Strange (1816–1878), had several additional children including: Isabella Lilias Trotter (1853–1928), Alexander Pelham Trotter (1857–1947) an electrical engineer who married Alys Fane Keatinge, and Margaret Trotter (1850–1942) who married the historian Hugh Edward Egerton (1855–1927).
- Sources
- "The first Principals of King's College London". Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
- Courthope, William (1839). Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: With Additions to the Present Time and a New Set of Coats of Arms from Drawings by Harvey. J. G. & F. Rivington. pp. 381–382, 676, 700. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- Henry, Cooper Charles (1852). Annals of Cambridge: Vol. V, 1850-1856, with Additions and Corrections to Volumes I-IV and Index to the Complete Work. The University Press. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack. 1837. p. 330. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- "Otter, William (1768–1840), bishop of Chichester". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20935. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Burke, Bernard (1871). A genealogical and heraldic history of the colonial gentry. Vol. 1. London: Harrison. p. 35.
- "Romilly, Baron (UK, 1866 – 1983)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- "Otter, William (OTR785W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Letter of Midshipman William Otter
- Morton, Desmond (1974). The Canadian General Sir William Otter. Hakkert. ISBN 978-0-88866-535-5. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- Trotter, Coutts (1899). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co.