Ravenscroft School - Raven Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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'w 0An given! Zgavenaczo f CHN STARK RAV the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese ofgpigiigfigiflarolina, was born May 17, 1772, at 4'RavYenscroft,Q..3Z1he family estate near what is now Petersburg, Virginia. As a child he Was taken to Ireland by his family, Where at eight years of' age he lost his father. He spent the remainder of his boyhood in .Ireland and there re- ceived his early education from his mother. At seventeen he returned to America to equip himself to take care of his family's property in Virginia and entered William and Mary College. After a year or so at William and Mary, he returned to Ravenscroft and managed the plantation. In February, 1816, he Was licensed Lay Reader by the Bishop of Virginia and in April of that year he Was ordained Deacon. At Fredericksburg, Virginia, in May, 1817, he entered the priesthood. The newly formed Diocese of North Carolina elected him its first Bishop on May 22, 1823, and for seven years he labored to lay the foundations on which the Work of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina has been built. He died on March 5, 1830, at the house of his friend, Gavin Hogg, at Raleigh, and was buried under the chancel of Christ Church in this city. Page four