Death
Henry Phillpotts still held office as Bishop of Exeter on his death at the age of 91 on 18 September 1869 (The date at the top under his picture is incorrect) and is buried in the churchyard at St Marychurch, Torquay, near his wife, Deborah, née Surtees, who had died six years before him, and was mother by him of eighteen children.
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—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
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Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav’nly Muse, that on the secret top
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In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos:”
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