Connop Thirlwell, (Newell)

Title

Bishop

First name(s)

(Newell) Connop

Surname

Thirlwell

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Member of College Council, 1848-1850

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• Bancroft's School (1810-1813)
• Charterhouse
• Trinity College, Cambridge
• Pupillage, Lincoln’s Inn (1820) ^{Ref: *1}

Qualifications

• BA (1818)

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
• Junior bursar, Junior Dean. Head Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge (1827-1832)
• Examiner, Classical Tripos, Trinity College, Cambridge (1828-29. 1832, 1834)
• Bishop of St David’s
• Chairman, Old Testament Revision Company

Professional activities

• Called to the Bar (1825)
• Ordained Deacon (1827)
• Ordained Priest (1828)
• Member of the Royal Commission on Ritual (1868)

Publications

• Thomas Thirlwall, Primitiae (1808) (A volume of Newell’s childhod compositions published by this father) ^{Ref: *1}
• with Julius Charles Hare, translation, Niebuhr's History of Rome (1828)
• The Philological Museum (1831)
• History of Greece (8 vols., 1835–44)
• Letters to a Friend (1881) (correspondence with Elizabeth Johnes)

Personal details

Date of birth

11 February 1797

Place of birth

Mile End Old Town, London

Date of death

27 July 1875

Place of death

59 Pulteney Street, Bath

Family details

Third son of the Revd Thomas Thirlwall, and his wife, Susannah Connop. ^{Ref: *1}

Notes

The Thirlwall prize for the best thesis involving historical research was instituted at Cambridge in memory of the Bishop (1884). ^{Ref: *1}