must have been mobile in the early days, as his eldest sister was born in the Cape of Good Hope, although their mother was born in St Ann's, Soho and their father in St Matthew's, London. In 1861 Edward Jerram and his wife Priscilla were living at 35 Alfred Place West, Kensington, with their eldest daughter, a niece and three servants including a coachman. In 1881 at age 13 he was living with his family and five servants at 4 Atherton Terrace, Kensington. By 1891 at age 23 he was living with his siblings and widowed mother at Palace Road, Kingston upon Thames. He was living on his own means, as was his mother, although his brother Herbert was a stocks and shares dealer. On 21 February 1895 at Christ Church, Surbiton Hill, Kingston he married Anna Christina Ravenhill (1871–1965) second daughter of W.W. Ravenhill of the Inner Temple. They had seven children, of whom one died at the Vicarage, Bradley, on 26 November 1895. Three days later on 29 November, Jerram had his overcoat stolen from a chapel during a choral rehearsal. By 1911 they were living at the Vicarage, Langford, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, in the Langford Berkshire parish. They had four of their children living with them, alongside a governess and two domestic servants. On 22 September 1914 he lost his son, Midshipman Harry E.R. Jerram, RN, aged 17, when HMS Hogue was torpedoed. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and received a third class B.A. degree in theology in 1891, and an MA in 1895. He trained at Leeds Clergy School, graduating in 1891. He was ordained deacon to St John the Evangelist, Wortley, Leeds; his first curacy, on Sunday 12 June 1892 at Ripon Cathedral by William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon. On 17 September 1893 he was ordained priest, again by Carpenter. His MA degree was conferred at Cambridge on 17 January 1895. He was a Canon from 1929. He was curate of Wortley, Leeds, from 1892 to 1894, and of Coley, West Yorkshire from 1894 to 1895. From 29 June 1895 until 1906 he was perpetual curate of the Church of St Thomas, Bradley, West Yorkshire. He then became curate of St John the Baptist Church, Coley near Halifax, West Yorkshire. By 1901 at age 33 he was curate or vicar in the parish of St. Thomas's Church, Huddersfield. In July 1906 Arnold Escombe