Background
Born at Sydenham on 19 June 1848, he was eldest son of Henry Syme Redpath, solicitor of Sydenham, by his wife Harriet Adeney of Islington.
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Henry Redpath
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In 1874 and Doctor of Literature in 1901. Ordained deacon in 1872 and priest in 1874, Redpath, became curate of Southam in Warwickshire, and then of Luddesdown in Kent. He was successively vicar of Wolvercote near Oxford (1880-1883), rector of Holwell, Dorset (1883-1890), and vicar of Sparsholt, Oxfordshire with Kingston Lisle (1890-1898).
In 1898. by an exchange, he became rector of Saint Dunstan-in-the-East in London.
Redpath was Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford (1901-1905). He was also sub-warden of the Society of Sacred Study in the diocese of London, and examining chaplain to the Bishop of London (1905-1908).
He died at Sydenham on 24 September 1908, and was buried at Shottermill, Surrey. Redpath married at Marsh Caundle, Dorset, on 5 October 1886, Catherine Helen, daughter of Henry Peter Auber of Marsh Court, Sherborne.
She died at Shottermill on 26 August 1898, leaving one son.
