Reverend Edmund Baskerville Mynors
(1823-1906)

[This portrait does not appear in the Silvy daybooks, so the sitter probably visited the studio during the period covered by the missing volume,  July 1863 to June 1864. The sitter was identified as 'E.B.M.' on the album page. From the sitter's own album.]

Reverend Edmund Baskerville Mynors was the Rector of Ashley in Somerset for twenty-nine years.

He was born on 11 March 1823, the son of the Peter Richards Mynors and his wife Mary Elizabeth née Halliday. 

Educated at St Mary’s Hall, Oxford (BA, 1845; MA, 1848), he became a Deacon in 1848 and was ordained a Priest by the Bishop of Hereford in 1849. From 1848 to 1859 he was the Curate of East and West Cranmore in Somerset; from 1859 to 1863 he was the Rector of Thelveton, Norfolk. In 1863 he became Rector of Ashley in the Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The patron of the living was the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the gross income from it was £220, plus the Rectory to live in. The population of his parish was small and the Reverend had the cure of a mere 90 souls.

On 19 February 1855 he married Horatia Charlotte Campbell Crawfurd, daughter of John Crawfurd of Blackbrook House, Monmouthshire. The marriage produced one son and four daughters. 

According to Crockford’s Clerical Directory for 1896, Reverend Baskerville Mynors left Ashley in 1892. His address is given as Farnley House, Dursley [Gloucestershire]. A few years later, in 1902, his address is given as Stanthill, Dursley. His last entry in Crockford’s is in the 1906 edition.

Reverend Edmund Baskerville Mynors died, aged 83, on 28 June 1906 at Newton Cottage, Swanage, Dorset. He left an estate valued at £7178.