On 6th April 1770 Bishop Edward Maltby was born.
In 1794 Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 23] and Mary Harvey were married.
In 1824 Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 53] was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1825 [his wife] Mary Harvey died.
In 1826 Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 55] and Margaret Green [aged 42] were married.
In 1831 Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 60] was appointed Bishop of Chichester.
In 1834 Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 63] was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
In 1837 Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 66] was elected Bishop of Durham.
In 1841 Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 70] established the Maltby Fund for building work in the Durham diocese to mitigate the discovery that he had been earning around £12,000, up to £21,000 in 1841, contrary to the 1836 Established Church Act 1836 which set the maximum annual income for a bishop at £8,000.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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In 1855 Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 84] made an unprecedented request that he be allowed to retire and suggested an annual pension of £4,500. Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone was appalled, denouncing the request as simony, but he eventually conceded.
After 1859. Durham Cathedral [Map]. Memorial to Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 88].
On 3rd July 1859 Bishop Edward Maltby [aged 89] died. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
In 17th April 1868 [his former wife] Margaret Green [aged 84] died. Monument at St Mary's Church, Buckden [Map].
Margaret Green: Around 1784 she was born. In 1826 Bishop Edward Maltby and she were married.