Charles Overton
He was brought up to be a civil engineer, and was not sent to university; but in 1829 he was ordained deacon by Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, the Archbishop of York.He was for a short time assistant curate of Christ Church, Harrogate, but in the year of his ordination moved to Romaldkirk near Barnard Castle.[1] Overton received priest's orders in 1830 from John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester, who in 1837 was presented him to the vicarage of Clapham, then in West Riding of Yorkshire.In 1841 Sumner presented him to the vicarage of Cottingham, near Hull, where he spent the remainder of his life.A poem Ecclesia Anglicana (London, n.d.) was written at Romaldkirk to celebrate the restoration of York Minster after its partial destruction by the arsonist Jonathan Martin; a later edition appeared in 1853.