Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley, an English composer, born in London, composer and director of music in Covent Garden Theatre for 14 years; produced 60 pieces, of which “Guy Mannering,” “The Miller and his Men,” are still in favour; was for a brief space professor of Music in Edinburgh University, and eventually held a similar chair in Oxford (1786‒1855).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bishop * Bishop of Hippo