Author: Antrobus, J.
Biography:
ANTROBUS, J. (1806-78: ACAD)
Boase and Allibone identify the author of Clifton as John Antrobus, author of some later works including Parental Wisdom (1849), The Wrongs of Poland, a Poem (1849), and Elijah in the Desert (1865). There is room for doubt about the attribution, however. Clifton gives the author’s name as “J. Antrobus” and John Antrobus did not claim the poem on the title pages of any of his other works. Moreover, the poem indicates that the author was born and spent his early years in Clifton and may have been somewhat older than John Antrobus who was born on 16 Jan. 1806 in Acton, Middlesex, to the Rev. William Antrobus and his wife Hannah Elizabeth Bowles. Nevertheless, by style and content the poem is similar to John Antrobus’s other works and, in the absence of any other likely candidate, this headnote gives biographical details for him. John Antrobus was educated at Eton College before entering St. John’s, Cambridge (matric. 1823, BA 1827, MA 1830). He was ordained a deacon in 1834 and a priest in 1835. He never married and census records show him living with a sister, Charlotte, in 1861 and 1871. Antrobus was a minor canon of Westminster and he died at his residence in the cloisters of Westminster on the 26 July 1878. (ACAD; CCEd; Boase; Allibone; ancestry.co.uk 28 Sept. 2022) SR
Other Names:
- J. Antrobus