Charles Terrot (bishop)

Charles Hughes Terrot FRSE (19 September 1790 – 2 April 1872) was a Scottish Episcopalian minister, theologian and mathematician.

He was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1812.

[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1840, his proposer being James David Forbes, and served as their vice president from 1844 to 1860.

[4] From 1856 until 1872 he was assisted in his role as Bishop by his chaplain Charles Richard Teape;[5] Thomas Baker Morrell was his coadjutor-bishop from 1863 until 1869, shortly after Terrot's retirement.

He died at home at 9 Carlton Street in Edinburgh on 2 April 1872 and is buried in New Calton Burial Ground with his daughter.

Terrot's home at 19 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh
The grave of Charles Terrot, New Calton Cemetery
Grave of Charlotte Maddon, Charles Hughes Terrot's wife, Warriston Cemetery