Author: Ager, Thomas
Biography:
AGER, Thomas (1776-1850: ancestry.co.uk)
The elder son of Thomas Ager (d 1820), a surgeon, and his wife Mary Magdalen De Heulle (d 1814), a widow whose surname at birth was Garnault, he was born in London on 16 Mar. and baptised at St. Mary’s, Whitechapel, on 1 Apr. 1776. He attended Berkhamsted school before going to Oriel College, Oxford (matric. 1792, BA 1796, MA 1799). Records from Oriel show that as an undergraduate he was fined £15 for a misdemeanour. He entered Lincoln’s Inn on 8 Nov. 1796 but seems not to have been called to the bar. Instead he was ordained deacon in 1800 and priest in 1802. He was made royal chaplain to George, Prince of Wales, in 1811 and appointed curate at Woughton, Buckinghamshire (1814), Great Yeldham, Essex (1826), and Sywell, Northampton (1844). On 15 Apr. 1817 he married Ann Billington in Woughton. The 1851 Census shows them living in Castle Hedingham, Essex, with five children, three girls and two boys. He died at home in Sywell on 24 May and was buried there on 30 May 1850. (ancestry.co.uk 1 May 2022; Alumni Oxonienses, Charles Lancelot Shadwell, Registrum Orielense [1902]; CCEd 1 May 2022, Morning Post 28 May 1850) SR
Other Names:
- T. Ager