John Graham (bishop)

He was educated at Durham School, and at Christ's College, Cambridge[2] , where he attained high proficiency as a classical and mathematical scholar.

In 1816 he graduated as fourth wrangler, and was bracketed with Marmaduke Lawson as chancellor's medallist, proceeding B.A.

It was in the latter year that he admitted Lord Lyndhurst to the office of high steward of the university, and his speech on that occasion is printed in Cooper's Annals of Cambridge[4] Ordained in 1818, he became rector of Willingham, Cambridgeshire in 1843.

In 1848, on the translation of John Bird Sumner to the see of Canterbury, Graham received the vacant bishopric of Chester.

His consecration took place in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, on 14 May 1848, and on 16 June he was installed in Chester Cathedral.

On the occasion of his leaving Cambridge the mayor and council of the town tendered him an address of congratulation on his appointment, the only instance in which a tribute of the kind had ever been offered by that body.