The Bishop of Marlborough was an episcopal title used by a Church of England suffragan bishop, firstly in the 16th century for the Diocese of Salisbury, and secondly in the late 19th and early 20th century for the Diocese of London.National archive data
The title takes its name after the town of Marlborough, Wiltshire and was first created under the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534. After the 1560s, the title fell into abeyance until it was revived in 1888, at the suggestion of the then Bishop of London,"It was Bishop Temple who obtained the Suffragan for West London, bringing up his old friend Archdeacon Earle from Devonshire, with the titular designation of Bishop of Marlborough" Papers pertaining to the Archdeacons of London to assist in the running of the rapidly expanding Diocese of London.Materials within The National Archive
List of bishops of Marlborough Bishops of Marlborough From Until Incumbent Notes 1537 ? 1561 Thomas Morley Also recorded as Thomas Calne and Thomas Bickley. Formerly Abbot of Stanley;The Abbey of Stanley. British History Online. Retrieved 1 January 2009.Cistercian Abbeys: Stanley. Retrieved 1 January 2009. consecrated on 4 November 1537; possibly died in 1561; fl. 1560s Thomas Lancaster Lancaster, Thomas (d.1583) in the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), a publication now in the public domain. Formerly Bishop of Kildare; acted as suffragan bishop of Marlborough in the 1560s; later became Archbishop of Armagh in 1568. unknown 1888 in abeyance 1888 1918 Alfred EarlePapers of Alfred Earle He was simultaneously Rector of St Botolph's, Bishopsgate;London, Bankside Press, 2003 , he was assisted by Alfred Barry, Rector of St James's, Piccadilly; Earle retained the See of Marlborough after he was appointed Dean of Exeter in 1900,Deans of Exeter . Retrieved 1 January 2009. while Barry took on Marlborough's former care of West London (the rural deaneries of Westminster, Hampton, and Uxbridge, which in 1903 were given over to the Bishop of Kensington) 1919 present in abeyance; effectively succeeded as suffragan for West London by the Bishops of Kensington Source(s):
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