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Author: Boone, James Shergold

Biography:

BOONE, James Shergold (1798-1859: ODNB)

He was born on 30 June 1798 and baptised on 8 Aug. at Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex, the youngest of five children of Thomas Boone (1760-1809), physician and surgeon, and his wife Rose Ann Shergold (1769-98), who had married in 1786. His mother died from childbirth complications. He was educated at Charterhouse (1812-16), where he won prizes for composition in 1814 and 1816, and Christ Church, Oxford (matric. 1816, BA 1820, MA 1823),where he was Craven scholar (1817) and won prizes for Latin and English verse. He published a satire in five dialogues, The Oxford Spy (1818-19), that caused a sensation, and an ambitious survey of European politics in verse epistles, Men and Things (1823). He was ordained deacon (1826) and priest (1828) and returned to Charterhouse as a master (1827-32). In June 1832 he was appointed perpetual curate of St. John’s, Paddington, London, a living he held until his death. He edited the short-lived periodical, The Council of Ten(1822), and the British Critic (1834-37), a High Church periodical which developed links to Newman and the Tractarians, causing him to resign. He maintained an interest in education throughout his life. An Essay on the Study of Modern History (1821), urged its study at Oxford. National Education: A Sermon (1833) and The Educational Economy of England (1838) raised objections to growing calls for state control in the Whig administration of 1830-41. The threats of the 1848 European revolutions were considered in One, Manifold; or, System (1848); Sermons (1853) contained an appendix “On the Modern Philosophy of Unbelief.” He married Ellen Cotterill (1801-40) on 24 Apr. 1824 at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, and after her death, Julia Maria Cox (1822-95) on 11 Jan. 1842 at St. John’s, Paddington. There was no issue from either marriage. In 1851 he was recorded living with his wife and two elderly aunts at 2 Stanhope Street, Hyde Park Gardens, Paddington. He died there on 24 Mar. 1859, leaving his wife an estate of almost £10,000. (ODNB 20 Mar. 2023; DNB; CCEd 20 Mar. 2023; ancestry.co.uk 20 Mar. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 20 Mar. 2023; OUCH 18 Apr. 1840; Morning Post 13 Jan. 1842, 28 Mar. 1859; GM July 1798, 636, May 1840, 553, March 1842, 322, May 1859, 545) AA

 

Other Names:

  • J. S. Boone
 

Books written (14):

2nd edn. Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818
Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818
3rd edn. Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818
Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818
2nd edn. Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818
Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818
Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818
3rd edn. Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818
3rd edn. Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818
4th edn. Oxford/ London: Munday and Slatter/ Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819
Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1819
Oxford/ London/ Cambridge: R. Pearson/ Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy/ R. Newby, 1823