sentences:  His paternal grandmother, the Victorian matriarch who raised him as an Episcopalian, was Augusta Chambers Eccleston, of Chestertown, Maryland, daughter of Maryland Court of Appeals Judge John Bowers Eccleston (1794-1860) and sister of the Rev.John H. E. Eccleston, whose Emmanuel Episcopal Church was decorated with flowers from the family's greenhouses.A more distant John C. Eccleston (1828-1912) served as a priest in Richmond County, New York.