Author: Ashfield, Charles Robert
Biography:
ASHFIELD, Charles Robert (1790-1871: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born in Slapton, Bucks., on 5 Feb. 1790 to Charles Ashfield, vicar of Stewkley in Bucks., and his wife Mary Wodley. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 19 Oct. 1808, and earned his BA in 1812. He was ordained deacon in 1813 and priest in 1814. He held a number of curateships, beginning with Aylesbury in 1814. In 1817 he married Anne Goodall of Dinton, Bucks.; they had four sons and two daughters. He was made vicar of Keynsham, Somerset, in 1819 and subsequently moved to Suffolk where he was rector first of Whitton cum Thurleston (1830-34) and then of Burgate (1834 until his death). He was a Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire and chaplain of the Aylesbury County Gaol (1824-34). Ashfield died on 11 Aug. 1871. (ancestry.co.uk 27 June 2022; CCEd 27 June 2022; Alumni Oxonienses) SR
Other Names:
- C. R. Ashfield