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Author: Bryan, George

Biography:

BRYAN, George (1800-89: ancestry.co.uk)

He was the third surviving son of Thomas Bryan (1754-1823) of Stoke Dry, Rutland, and his wife Mary Pridmore (1764-1833); they had married in Glaston, Northamptonshire, on 19 Mar. 1791. George Bryan was born on 12 Sept. and baptised in Stoke Dry on 14 Oct. 1800. He was educated at Uppingham school in Rutland before being admitted to St. John’s college, Cambridge, on 16 Oct. 1818 (matric. 1819, BA 1823, MA 1826). He was ordained a deacon in 1824 and a priest in 1826 when he was appointed perpetual curate at St. Leonard’s, Mumby, Lincolnshire. On 29 Mar. 1830 at Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, he married Lucy Frashney (1806-90) of Thoresby; they did not have any children. In 1833 he became vicar of Huttoft, Lincolnshire, and he held that post until his retirement in 1882. He and Lucy then moved to Alford, Lincolnshire, where he died on 16 Feb. 1889; he was buried in Lincoln on 21 Feb. 1889. He left an estate of £987. The Advertisement to Monody on the Death of the Duke of York states that the poem was written in Jan. 1827; it was first published in Mar. 1829. In June of the same year his The Dying Christian, dedicated to his elder brother, was issued. His pamphlet, Echoes of St. Margaret’s Church, at Huttoft, was published in 1882; it includes some verse by him that had previously been printed in The Church of England Magazine (1851, 1854). (ancestry.co.uk 27 July 2023; ACAD; CCEd 27 July 2023; Leicester Journal 12 June 1829; Stamford Mercury 27 Mar. 1829)

 

Books written (2):

London: C. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1829
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829