Philip Bearcroft | |
---|---|
Born | Worcester, Worcestershire, England | 21 February 1695
Died | 17 October 1761 66) London, England | (aged
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Clergyman |
Philip Bearcroft, D.D. (21 February 1695 – 17 October 1761) was an English clergyman and antiquary. [1]
Bearcroft was born in the city of Worcester on 21 February 1695 (though some sources wrongly say 1 May 1697), [2] the eldest child of Philip Bearcroft and his wife Elizabeth Ford. The Bearcrofts of Worcester were a branch of an old-established family of landed gentry whose estate was at Mere Hall in the parish of Hanbury. [3] He was educated at Charterhouse School, of which he was elected a scholar on the nomination of Lord Somers in July 1710. [1] On 17 December 1712, he matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, gaining his B.A. Degree in 1716. In 1717 he became a probationary and in 1719 an actual fellow of Merton College, the year he took his M.A. degree. He added the degrees of B.D. and D.D. in 1730.
Bearcroft was ordained deacon in 1718 at Bristol and priest in 1719 at Gloucester. [1] He was appointed Preacher to the Charterhouse in 1724; vicar of Elham, Kent in 1731; an Honorary Chaplain to the King in 1738; Secretary to the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1739; rector of Stourmouth, Kent, in 1743; and Master of Charterhouse on 18 December 1753. In 1755, he was collated to a prebendal stall in Wells Cathedral. [4]
On 4 March 1730 Bearcroft married Elizabeth Lovegrove, widow of a man called Roberts, [5] and they had three sons: Philip born 1731, Edward born 1737, who became a prominent lawyer and MP, and William born 1740. After Elizabeth's death, on 18 October 1753 he married Mary Coventry, widow of Henry Barker and daughter of Thomas Coventry, the brother of William Coventry, 5th Earl of Coventry. [6]
Bearcroft died on 17 October 1761. [4] He was survived by his widow.
In 1737 he published An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton, Esquire, and of his foundation in Charter-house, [4] which supplied the bulk of the material for Robert Smythe's history in 1808. He also intended to publish a collection of the rules and orders of the Charterhouse, but was prevented by the governors, some extracts only being printed in a quarto pamphlet and distributed among the officers of the house. [7] In Nichols's Bowyer, Bearcroft is spoken of as "a worthy man, but with no great talents for writing". Some of his sermons were published, both before and after his death, and thirteen discourses on moral and religious subjects were published in Relics of the Sacred Ministry in 1835.
Richard Hathwaye, was an English dramatist.
Edward Bearcroft, KC was an English barrister, judge, and politician.
The Schuyler family was a prominent Dutch family in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose descendants played a critical role in the formation of the United States, in leading government and business in North America and served as leaders in business, military, politics, and society. The other two most influential New York dynasties of the 18th and 19th centuries were the Livingston family and the Clinton family.
Montague Peregrine Bertie, 11th Earl of Lindsey, DL, styled The Honourable Montague Bertie until 1877, was an English nobleman, soldier, and landowner, the second son of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey and his wife Charlotte.
Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, was an English peer, styled Lord Clinton from 1585 to 1616.
Daniel Wray was an English antiquary and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Nathan Utley was an American-born sailor and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Yarmouth Township in the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia from 1799 to 1804.
James Samuel Berridge was a British planter, businessman, judge and politician who served as Governor of Saint Kitts.
Thomas Swarbrick was an organ builder active in England in the eighteenth century.
Lieutenant-General James Webber Smith CB (1778–1853) was a British Royal Artillery officer who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
James Eversfield was an English landowner who served as High Sheriff of Sussex.
Sir Thomas Peckham (1691-1724) was an English landowner who served as High Sheriff of Sussex.
Charles Goodwin (of Rowfant) (1658–1731) was an English landowner who lived in the historic house of Rowfant in Sussex and served as High Sheriff of Sussex.
Lieutenant General Sir Edward Cecil Bethune, was a British Army officer who raised and led his own regiment, Bethune's Mounted Infantry, in the Second Boer War and directed the Territorials in the First World War.
John Drew (1734–1808) was an English banker and landowner, who served as High Sheriff of Sussex.
John Carteret Pilkington (1730–1763) was an Irish singer and writer who left lively memoirs of his early life and collaborated on the memoirs of his mother Laetitia Pilkington.
Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln was an English noblewoman and writer. She was Countess of Lincoln from 1616 until the death of her husband Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, in 1619, then Dowager Countess. Her pamphlet on child-raising, The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery, gained praise.
Sir Philip Meadowes or Meadows (1672–1757) was an English politician and diplomat.
Sir Edward Lake, 1st Baronet was an eminent lawyer who became advocate general of Ireland. He was a Royalist, badly wounded in the Battle of Edgehill, and was the first of the Lake baronets. Sir Edward also became chancellor and vicar General of the diocese of Lincoln, England.