John Skynner Egerton Bishop

Just what was TLM-P's relationship with John Bishop is unclear, though likely to be a cousin on his mother's side. TLM-P recorded that John (b. 1816) had married Emily Davenport Hunter, daughter of Christopher Hunter MD (as usual, there is no mention of the mother). They had 7 children and their addresses in 1882 says much about the purpose served by the British Empire to employ ambitious sons. The one daughter, Alice Maria Bishop, had married the Rev. T.W. Taylor and lived relatively close at Maidstone, Kent. The youngest son, Arthur Stanley Bishop, was still a law student, but the other 5 sons had made their way in the world. Two (Rev. John Hunter Bishop and Dr Sydney Clive Bishop were in India; son Henry Davenish Bishop lived in Lyons, France; while Ernest Prior Bishop was just noted as being a 2nd officer in the P.O. service and married. Intriguingly, the remaining son, Herbert Orlebar Bishop, was recorded as being in the 'Telegraph Dept. Queensland'¹⁾. He was presumably known as Herbert, but according to the Queensland marriage records, his name was actually Henry Herbert Orlebar Bishop. He married Amelia Annie Cowan in 1876.²⁾