“REVEREND”
This honorary appellation has been held by clergy since the middle of the seventeenth century. In Tamworth parish register the minister is first styled “reverend” in 1657, occasionally afterwards, regularly so after 1727. It first appears in the registry of All Hallows, Barking, in 1732. The prefix on a family tombstone was refused to Mr Keet, a- Wesleyan preacher, by the Bishop of Lincoln, but allowed by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1874. On trial, Mr Walter G. F. Philimore, the Chancellor of Lincoln, decided against Mr Keet. who gave notice of appeal. Sir R. Phillimore gave a similar decision in the court of arches, July 31, 1875, but on appeal to the Privy Council these decisions were reversed. It was decided on January 21, 1876, that there is no law or usage restricting the epithet to ministers of the Church of England; it is merely laudatory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1940, Page 6
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148“REVEREND” Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1940, Page 6
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