Career
He was senior chaplain at Aldershot from 1861, then followed chaplain to the forces at Chatham, Halifax (Nova Scotia), again at Aldershot, Gibraltar, and, finally, at Portsmouth (1881-1885), and then Chaplain-General to Her Majesty"s Forces (1885–1901). Following his retirement, he undertook the position of Prebendary of Wells, which he held until his death. As a noted Tractarian and Anglo-Catholic, he was the first choice to replace Hibbert Binney as the bishop of Nova Scotia by the Synod of the diocese, at Halifax, 6 June 1887.
He declined his election in a letter to the Synod.
He was an Honorary Chaplain to King Edward VII. He had a daughter, Ella Mary Edghill, with Mary Nesfield (d 24 September 1922, Weston-super-Mare). The Museum of Army Chaplaincy holds further information on the life on Edghill.
