Background
The third son of Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet, he was born in Madras on 10 February 1791, and brought to England in 1794 by his family.
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Herbert Oakeley
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In 1810 he took a first-class in literæ humaniores, graduated Bachelor of Arts on 23 February 1811, and obtained a senior studentship.
Career
After some years at Westminster School, he entered Christ Church, Oxford. He proceeded Master of Arts on 4 November 1813. He was presented by Howley to the vicarage of Ealing in 1822, and to the prebendal stall of Wenlock"s Barn in Street Paul"s Cathedral.
As a married man he took up residence at Ealing.
In 1834 Howley, now Archbishop of Canterbury, presented him to the rectory of Bocking, Essex, a living once held by his father-in-law. The anomalous "archbishop"s peculiar" of Bocking was abolished shortly after Oakeley"s death.
Both at Ealing and at Bocking, Oakeley was one of the first to carry out the system of parochial organisation by means of district visitors, weekday services, and Sunday-schools. Bocking contained many nonconformists, with whom Oakeley engaged in disputes about church rates.
In 1841 Oakeley succeeded William Lyall in the archdeaconry of Colchester.
And when the bishopric of Gibraltar was founded in 1842, it was offered to him, though he declined lieutenant He died in London on 27 March 1845. He wrote for private circulation short poems, and a memoir of his father.
On 5 June 1826 Oakeley was married at Saint Margaret"s Church, Westminster, to Atholl Keturah Murray, daughter of Lord Charles Murray Aynsley.
She died on 26 January 1844.
