Author: Boone, Thomas Charles
Biography:
BOONE, Thomas Charles (1797-1851: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 1 Jan. 1797 and baptised on 1 Feb. at Sunbury on Thames, the son of Thomas Boone (1760-1809), physician and surgeon, and Rosa Ann (Shergold) Boone (1769-98). His younger brother was James Shergold Boone (q.v.). He was educated at St. Peter’s (Peterhouse) College, Cambridge (matric. 1819, BA 1823), and was ordained deacon and priest in 1822. He was appointed stipendiary curate at Winslow, Buckinghamshire, in 1822. He was stipendiary curate at St. Giles without Cripplegate, London, in 1828 before becoming vicar of St. Mary’s, Kensworth, Herts. (1830-51). He married Amy Brown (1811-45) on 11 Sept. 1832 at St. James, Paddington, London. They had three daughters and a son, all of whom reached adulthood. In Feb. 1847, with income from Kensworth of £170 per annum and no assets, he applied for creditor protection, having run up debts of £6,366 with tradesmen. He died on 23 Apr. 1851 and was buried at Kensworth. His wife, Amy, had predeceased him in 1845. Sketches from Life (1826) contains the usual tales of emigrants, brothers and maids, and is chiefly memorable for “Lines on Fuseli’s Picture of the Nightmare.” The Book of Churches and Sects (1826) traces doctrinal differences and includes a commonplace refutation of Unitarianism. Later works are avuncular, old-fashioned conduct works which lack his brother’s eloquence and brilliance: Outlines of Man’s True Interest (1844) and The Marriage Looking-Glass: Written as a Manual for the Married and a Beacon for the Single (1848). (ancestry.co.uk 20 Mar. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 20 Mar. 2023; CCEd 20 Mar. 2023; MH 7 Apr. 1845; Morning Post 28 Apr. 1851; London Gazette 9 Feb. 1847; Northampton Mercury 27 February 1847) AA
Other Names:
- T. Charles Boone