Philip Bearcroft

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Philip Bearcroft
Born(1695-02-21)21 February 1695
Worcester, Worcestershire, England
Died17 October 1761(1761-10-17) (aged 66)
London, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationClergyman

Philip Bearcroft, D.D. (21 February 1695 – 17 October 1761) was an English clergyman and antiquary. [1]

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Origins and education

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.

Career

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]

Personal life

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.

Literary works

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.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Goodwin 1885, p. 12.
  2. Phillip Bearcroft, 1 Mar 1695, Saint Swithin, Worcester, Worcestershire, England FHL microfilm 886,612, 886,614 England Births and Christenings 1538-1975 , retrieved 22 November 2016 Goodwin, 1885 & p.13, Susannah Bearcroft's preface to Relics of Philip Bearcroft
  3. Phillips-Evans, J. The Longcrofts: 500 Years of a British Family, Chapter VIII (Amazon 2012). In the Charterhouse chapel on 12 April 1743, he conducted the marriage of his relation Elizabeth Bearcroft of Merton to Robert Longcroft of Portsmouth, whose grandson inherited Mere Hall.
  4. 1 2 3 Goodwin 1885, p. 13.
  5. Philip Bearcroft, 24 Feb 1731, Saint Botolph without Aldersgate, London, England, FHL microfilm 374,441, 374,442 England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 , retrieved 22 November 2016
  6. Mary Coventry, 16 February 1709; St Botolph Bishopsgate, London, England FHL microfilm 380,143 England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 , retrieved 22 November 2016
  7. Goodwin, 1885 & p.14, Gough, British Topography, i. 691

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