Background
WORCESTER, Huyshe Wolcott YeatmanBigrers was born on February 2, 1845 in Manston House, Dorset. Youngest son of Harry Farr Yeatman, Justice of the Peace, and Emma, daughter and heiress of Harry Biggs, Stockton House, Wiltshire.
WORCESTER, Huyshe Wolcott YeatmanBigrers was born on February 2, 1845 in Manston House, Dorset. Youngest son of Harry Farr Yeatman, Justice of the Peace, and Emma, daughter and heiress of Harry Biggs, Stockton House, Wiltshire.
Winchester; Emmanuel College (Dixie Scholar), Cambridge (Master of Arts). Played in Winchester football six for commoners. Shot two years in the eleveD at Wimbledon.
Master of Arts; Doctor of Divinity.
President of athletics for his college at Cambridge. Trained for holy orders by the Master of the Temple, Doctor Vaughan. Ordained 1869; curate of St. Edmund, Salisbury.
Chaplain to the Bishop, 1875. Clerical secretary of the Diocesan Synod. Vicar of Nether bury, Dorset, 1877.
Vicar of Sydenham, 1879. Proctor for Diocese of Rochester in convocation. Examining chaplain to Bishop of Winchester.
Bishop Suffragan of Southwark, diocese Rochester, 1891 - 1904. Inherited the estates of his brother. General Yeatman - Biggs, Companion of the Bath, and assumed the name of Biggs by Royal licence, 1898. Honourable Fellow Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Select Preacher to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Club: Athenaeum.
Spouse 1875, Barbara (d. 1909),daughter of 4th Earl of Dartmouth.