Rev. Temple Chevallier (1794-1873): son of the Rev. Temple Fiske Chevallier, of Badingham (Suffolk). Educated Pembroke College, Cambridge; B.A. (Second Wrangler) 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1825. Ordained priest 1818. Fellow of Pembroke College 1819; Fellow and Tutor of Catharine Hall (St Catharine's College), Cambridge, 1820. Hulsean lecturer in Divinity 1826 and 1827 (lectures published as Of the proofs of the divine power and wisdom derived from the study of astronomy, 1835). In 1835 Chevallier was invited to become Professor of Mathematics in the newly founded University of Durham, and held this post until 1872. He was also Professor of Astronomy 1841-1871, Reader in Hebrew 1835-1871, registrar of the university 1835-1865, and in 1834-1835 assisted with lectures in divinity. To this busy academic life he added the duties of a parish priest, as perpetual curate of Esh, just outside Durham, from 1835 until his death. He was made an honorary canon of Durham in 1846, Rural Dean of Durham in 1858, and a residentiary canon of Durham in 1873.
Rev. George Elwes Corrie (1793-1885): son of Rev. John Corrie of Colsterworth (Lincolnshire). Educated Catharine Hall, Cambridge; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1831. Ordained priest 1817. Tutor at Catharine Hall until 1849, when he became Master of Jesus College. Norrisian Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge 1838. From 1851 until his death he held the rectory of Newton (Cambridgeshire) in conjunction with the mastership of Jesus.
From the guide to the Chevallier/Corrie correspondence, 1832-1865, (Repository Unknown)
