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Courtenay, Henry Reginald, D.D.

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an English prelate, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford; became chaplain to the king, prebendary of Exeter in 1772, rector of St. George's, Hanover Square, in 1774, of Lee (in Kent), in 1775, and prebendary of St. Andrew, in the cathedral of Rochester, in 1783. He was consecrated bishop of Bristol, May 11, 1794, .and translated to the see of Exeter in 1797. He died June 9, 1803. He published a Fast Sermon (1795): — and a Charge (1796). See Le Neve, Fasti; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; (Lond.) Annual Register, 1803, page 510.