On 13th August 1837 Bishop John Wogan Festing was born to Richard Grindall Festing and Eliza Mammatt at Brook House, Stourton.
In 1860 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 22] was ordained deacon, and priest the following year, and subsequently served as curate of Christ Church, Westminster, London, from 1860 to 1873.
In 1860 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 22] was awarded BA by Trinity College, Cambridge University [Map].
In 1863 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 25] was appointed Assistant Honorary Secretary, Universities' Mission to Central Africa which office he held until 1882.
In 1873 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 35] was appointed vicar of St Luke's Church, Berwick Street, close to Seven Dials.
On 19th May 1878 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 40] was appointed vicar of Christ Church, Albany Street.
In 1882 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 44] was appointed Treasurer, Universities' Mission to Central Africa which office he held until 1890.
In 1887 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 49] was appointed Rural Dean of St Pancras.
On 26th June 1888 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 50] was appointed Prebendary of Brondesbury in St Paul's Cathedral.
On 24th June 1890 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 52] was appointed Bishop of St Albans. The diocese had been created in 1877 and had only had one bishop before Festing.
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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Before 28th December 1902. Photograph of Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 65]. He was buried at St Albans Cathedral [Map].
On 28th December 1902 Bishop John Wogan Festing [aged 65] died unmarried at 21 Endsleigh Street, Bloomsbury.
father: Richard Grindall Festing
Grandfather: Edward Mammatt of Ashby de la Zouche
mother: Eliza Mammatt