Vicar of Bray. Rector of Whitchurch, Oxon. Hon Canon of Christ Church, Oxon

TFPL in Jun to Dec 1998:

He was, from Who Was Who 1897-1916:
1. 1869: Deacon
2. 1870: Priest
3. 1869-71: Curate of Bedminster, Bristol
4. 1871-73: Curate of Cobham, Surrey
5. 1873-83: Vicar of Northam, Southampton
[5a. from son Aubrey's birth cert of March 1884: Vicar of Bray]
6. 1884-99: Vicar of Ardington, Berks
And from Crockfords 1921-22:
7. 1899-1914: Rector of Whitchurch, Oxon.
8. 1913-1917: Rural Dean of Henley

Hon Canon of Ch Ch, Oxon.  This canonry seems to go with the Whitchurch rectorship as prior and later rectors were also canons.
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His death is deduced from the fact that he ceased being rector in 1914.   He then, according to APL, went to live at Horton Lodge (shades of his ancestors who lived in Horton Manor, Surrey?) in Reading (somewhere), freelancing at the odd church.  Crockfords confirms the Horton Lodge, Christ Church Road, Reading address and has his last entry in the 1921-22 edition so he must have died around then. And his death certificate shows it to have been on 4 Jul 1922 (TFPL: March 2002).

But Who Was Who reports his death as 1910; sounds rubbish.
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In 1905 Palmer's Index to the Times records two letters (?) from Canon H Trotter, one on the 5th Jun on the Bishop of London's Balance sheet (p. 9, col e) and the other on the 17th March on the Earthquake shock at Bartner (P. 7, col f).

TFPL, Sept 2004: Having seen these letters it is clear that they were not from him, but from other Henry Trotters.
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In the 1901 census he was living at The Rectory, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire with all his family save Arthur, as Clergyman of the Church of England aged 56 and born in Wimbledon, Surrey.

In the 1901 census his household consisted of:
(a) he and his wife,
(b) 5 children, aged from 14 to 22,
(c) 1 visiting clergyman,
(d) 8 servants in the house, including a butler, footman and cook,
(e) In the stables, a coachman and wife.
A total economic unit of 17 plus the visitor and the absent son.
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TFPL, Oct 2004: I am reasonably certain that he became the eventual heir to his father.  His elder brother William Sampson married and had two children, but, I have been informed by relatives, neither married and had children themselves, both dying childless (dsp).  So, at the death of the last child which would have been long after the Canon's death, his son Arthur became (to his surprise I suspect) the representative and eventual heir male of William Trotter, his grandfather.  This representation then passed through his sister Lilian who, many years after her death, became heir general and representative in her issue; her issue by that time being her son Antony who also was, even more to his surprise had he known it, heir general and representative of his gt-grandfather William Trotter.  And now I bear this heavy load on my shoulders too.

The heir male of William Trotter is now William Trotter, the great-great-grandson of Alexander Kenyon Trotter, the fourth son of William Trotter of Horton Manor.
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In the 1891 census (thanks to FindMyPast.com - Ancestry had left them out of the index) he was living with his complete family at The Vicarage, Ardington, Berks.  The household consisted of:
Himself and his wife
The six children including the freshly born Arthur,
and the following six indoor servants:
Butler, cook, nurse, undernurse, housemaid and kitchenmaid.

In addition in an adjoining residence there was a coachman with his wife and four children, almost certainly part of Henry’s equipage.  In all very similar, though short by two persons, to the establishment he had in 1901.
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The purpose of locating the 1891 census was to see if there had ever been any more than the six children, lest there should have been an extra one who might have been the heraldic heir (male) or co-heir (female).  1891 clearly shows all the six children hitherto thought to have been his and Mary’s, 1901 in fact shows only five, curiously lacking the youngest, Arthur.  But the key point here is that if there were any births between 1891 and 1901, they would have been under 10 years old and be expected to be living with their parents; however no such children have been found.
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His birth cannot be found on FreeBMD; while there are many Henry Trotters born in Q2 or Q3 of 1844, none of the registrations is in Surrey and none have the names Henry Eden.  Though his baptism is to be found in the register of St Mary’s Wimbledon, Surrey.

And in 2014 I found this on Family Search:

Name:                             Henry Eden Brown
Gender:                           Male
Christening Date:                 09 Jul 1844
Christening Place:                WIMBLEDON,SURREY,ENGLAND
Father's Name:                    William Brown
Mother's Name:                    Mary Elizabeth
Indexing Project (Batch) Number:  C01344-3 ,
System Origin:                    England-ODM ,
GS Film number:                   0991780, 0991781

And by 2020 a transcript was on FindMyPast together with a copy of the page of the register.
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In 1842, two years before he was born, his cousin Edward Eden Park was the first to receive the second name of Eden.
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Apr, 2008, TFPL: A little delineation on his retirement:
In Aug 1914, his son Ronald applied to join the army and recorded that his address was Whitchurch Rectory, Reading. (This and the next are from his surviving army papers in TNA.)
In Sept 1915 a telegram was sent from the War Office to the canon to tell him of his son’s death in action on the 25th/26th, this was to the Canon at Horton Lodge, Chrisychurch Road, Reading.

So HET’s retirement was between Aug 1914 and Sept 1915.
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In the 1911 census, all children save Lilian (married with children) and Ronald (in The Argentine?) were at home.  The census said they had had seven children of whom one had died and this led to this birth and death:

Surname First name(s)   Age District     Vol  Page
Births Jun 1882
Trotter Cyril Henry G       Southampton  2c   8   
Deaths Dec 1887
Trotter Cyril Henry    5    Wantage      2c   195

I think it is bound to be fruitful to get hold of a copy of his birth certificate as that will give his parents.  (Later, done)
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Also in 1911, their house, the Rectory at Whitchurch Oxon, had a mere 23 rooms and the household had the six family and six living in servants.
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He died at 4 East Avenue, Bournemouth and I happen to have a pair of photos of this: it was a large grand place in a suburn.  The photos were found in an album of Evelyn’s, his daughter.
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His admon was granted on 20 Sept 1922 and gave hsi death on 4th July 1922 at 4 Eat Avenue, Bournemouth, Hants and said he was previously of The Rectory, Whitchurch, Reading, Berks.

His executors are listed as his widow Mary Hodgson Trotter and his son Ronald Herbert Trotter though it adds that Ronald had died int he lifetime of said testator.

In his will of 6th Mar 1888 1894, he lists as well  as his executors:

His brother Ernest Balfour T., originally appointed as executor.

In a codicil of 4 Dec 1894 he revoked his brother Eernest as an executor and guardian.

In a second codicil, of 16 Mar 1914, shortly after the death of his eldest son, he appointed his second son as co-executor.

His personal estate was £3,121 gross and £1,502 net.
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Quarterly
1st & 4th: Argent, a crescent gules, on a chief indented azure three mullets pierced of the field, a canton argent, for distinction.  TROTTER.
2nd & 3rd: Azure, a chevron chequy argent and sable between three fleurs-de-lis of the second.  BROWN

Source: RL to his father of 1868.

Crests:
1st:  A horse, trotting argent.  TROTTER
2nd: A lion rampant gules, holding in his dexter fore-paw a fleur-de-lis argent.  BROWN

Mottoes:
Over the crest of TROTTER: Festina lente
Over the crest of BROWN: Fortitudine et fidelitate.

The brown arms are identical to those in Burke's Armory for a Scottish family, so might the Browns have come from Scotland? (Yes, fact.)

1st & 4th: Argent, a crescent gules, on a chief indented azure three mullets pierced of the field.  TROTTER.
2nd & 3rd: Azure, a chevron chequy argent and sable between three fleurs-de-lis of the second.  BROWN

RL to his father of 1868.

Who Was Who has this on him:

TROTTER, Rev. Henry Eden (1844-1922)

Details: TROTTER , Rev. Henry Eden, MA; Hon. Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, since 1898; born 2 June 1844; 3rd son of William and Mary Elizabeth Trotter of Horton Manor, Surrey; married 1877, Mary Hodgson, daughter of William S. Gillett, Harefield, Southampton.

Education: Radley; Christ Church, Oxford.

Work: Ordained deacon, 1869; priest, 1870; Curate of St John, Bedminster, 1869-1872; Cobham, Surrey, 1872-1873; Vicar of Northam, Hants, 1873-1883; Ardington, Berks, 1884-1899; Rector of Whitchurch, 1899-1914; Rural Dean of Henley, 1913-1917.

Address: Horton Lodge, Reading.

Died: 4 July 1922
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A newspaper cutting of an obituary probably kept by his daughter Lilian:

Henry Eden Trotter

Canon Henry Eden Trotter, who passed peacefully and quite suddenly to rest on Tuesday, July 4, had devoted the best part of his ministerial life to the zervice of Christ and His Church in the diocese of Oxford.  Educated at Radley, Christ Church and Cuddesden, he was ordained priest in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol in 1870.  After labouring amongst the poor in the slum parish of St John’s Bedminster, he held a curacy in in Surrey for a short time, and then became vicar of Northam in Hants, and was appointed by the late Lord Wantage to be vicar of Ardington in Berkshire in 1884.  There he remained for fifteen years and devoted himself heart and soul to the interests of his flock.  In 1899 Bishop Stubbs appointed him to the living of Whitchurch in Oxfordshire.  Possessed of ample means, and endowed with excellent business capacity, he rendered invaluable service to the diocese of Oxford, first as hon. sec. to the Education Society and then as hon. sec. to the diocesan board during the transition from the old order to the new.  In more than one of the crises through which the religious education question has passed in recent years, Canon Trotter was the man to whom everyone looked in the diocese for accurate information and wise counsel, while his strenuous work as an officer of the diocese board contributed in no small degree to the comparativelhy satisfactory condition in which its finances stand now.
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On Their marriage cert. no 493 of St Peter's church register, Pimlico, Mx,
Dated April 19th 1877
He is Henry Eden Trotter, of full age, a bachelor and a clerk in Holy Orders,, of Buckingham Palace Road, father William Trotter, esquire.
She was Mary Hodgson Gillett, a minor and a spinster, no occupation, of West End, Hampshire, father William Stedman Gillett, esquire
The celebrant was Hugh Gillett [her cousin].
They signed as "Henry Eden Trotter" and "Mary Hodgson Gillett".
The witnesses were W S Gillett (her father), A A C Grant (probably her half-sibling), Wm Trotter (his father), E Gillett (must be related but could be any of many; a possibility is the bride’s mother).
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From the London Standard of Wednesday 25 April 1857:

TROTTER--GILLETT--19th, at St Peters, Pimlico, by the Rev Hugh Hodgson Gillett, rector of Compton, Surrey, assisted by the Rev Edward Gillett, curate of Hawley, Hants (cousins of the bride), the Rev Henry Eden Trotter, vicar of Northam, Southampton third son of William Trotter, Esq., of Horton Manor Epsom, to Mary Hodgson Gillett, only daughter of William R Gillett, Esq., of Harefield, West-End, Hants.
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