[1] A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1855 and two years later became Vicar of Lewknor.
He was then Chaplain to Archibald Campbell Tait, Bishop of London, and went with him in the same post when he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury seven years later.
Appointed to be a Cathedral Canon at Canterbury in 1882,[2] and Archdeacon of Maidstone in 1887, in 1895 he became Dean of Ripon.
[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Botanic Society of London in 1902.
[6] Their second son Sir Francis Edward Fremantle was a Conservative politician.