John Speechly

John Martindale Speechly (13 November 1836 – 22 January 1898) was the first Bishop of Travancore and Cochin.

He was educated at Oundle School and St John's College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1860 to a curacy in Peterborough.

When the See of Travancore and Cochin was erected under the Jerusalem Bishopric Act in 1879, Speechly was consecrated a bishop, by Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 25 July at St Paul's Cathedral;[10][11] he returned to Kottayam on 27 January 1880[12] and served as the first Bishop of Travancore and Cochin.

Speechly married Mary Gray Grove (1835 Bolton, Lancashire – 1913 Richmond, Surrey), daughter of Major Henry Jones Grove and Mary Anne Sinclair, in Trivandrum, India on 6 January 1863.

They had 4 daughters and 4 sons: John Martindale Speechly died 22 January 1898 at Faversham, Kent.