Author: Ackland, Thomas Gilbank
Biography:
ACKLAND, Thomas Gilbank (1789-1844: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 19 Nov. 1789 at Christchurch, Surrey, the son of Thomas Ackland, the Rector, and his wife Sarah Gilbank, who had married there the previous year. He was educated at Charterhouse and St. John’s, Cambridge. (Father and son were both DD, St. John’s, 1807 and 1828 respectively.) He married Harriet Clinton Baddeley (1784-1869), from Greenwich, at St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, on 16 May 1811. (The marriage to Mary Hopkinson in ODNB is an error replicated from Venn.) She was born on 2 Dec. 1784, the daughter of Major General Henry Clinton and his wife Mary Baddeley, and was baptised at St. George’s, Hanover Square, on 20 April 1797 alongside her brother, Frederick Henry Baddeley (later Major-General) (1792-1879). Her sister Elizabeth (1788-1836) was baptised at St. Marylebone. (It is not known why the names Clinton and Baddeley were later transposed.) All three were subscribers to Ackland's Miscellaneous Poems (1811) and were probably the subjects of "The Sisters; or The Test of Fashion" and "A Poetical Dialogue with a Political Colonel." Other poems in the volume are tributary or imitative or occasional and had largely gone out of fashion by 1811. His sermons are equally undistinguished. In 1818 he was appointed Rector of St. Mildred’s, Bread Street, a post he held until his death. He was at various times Lecturer at St. Andrew’s Holborn, St. Mildred’s, Poultry, and sometime Chaplain to the Duke of York. He died 20 Feb. 1844 at Walworth. His wife survived him. There was no issue. (ancestry.co.uk 25 Sept. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 25 Sept. 2020; CCEd; ODNB 25 Sept. 2020; DNB; Cambridge Chronicle 2 Mar. 1844; GM June 1844, 659) AA