Ernest Blackie

Who was Ernest Blackie?

Ernest Morell Blackie was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.

Blackie was born in Leamington Spa and educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and the University of London. Ordained in 1891, he was a curate at St Mark's Gloucester and then a minor canon at Rochester Cathedral until 1900. He later became the rector of Limpsfield and then St Paul's York Place, Edinburgh before becoming the vicar of Windsor and an Honorary Chaplain to the King. From 1921 to 1937 he was a residentiary canon at Lincoln Cathedral and for seven years a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Lincoln before his final appointment as Dean of Rochester, a position he held until his death in 1943.

In 1903 Blackie married Caroline Stewart, daughter of James Haldane Stewart Jr. and Emily Leveson-Gower of Titsey Place. Her father was the son of James Haldane Stewart senior and Mary Dale, daughter of David Dale.