Author: Burges, George
Biography:
BURGES, George (1765-1853: ancestry.co.uk)
Burges is sometimes given as Burgess, including in the record of his matriculation. His parents were George Burges and his wife Ann Hume; they had married at St. Peter’s, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 22 Feb. 1762. He was baptised in the same church on 16 Feb. 1765; in the 1851 Census he gave his place of birth as Walsoken which is just outside Wisbech but located in Norfolk. He was educated at the grammar school in Moulton, Lincolnshire, and admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge, on 30 June 1783. He migrated to St. John’s College in Oct. of the same year (BA 1787). He was ordained deacon in 1787 and priest in 1791 before being appointed first curate at Whittlesey and Leverington (both Cambridge), and then vicar at Halvergate, Norfolk. In 1813 he became rector of Moulton in Lincolnshire and held that post until his death. He married Eliza Myers (1780-1837) on 14 Apr. 1825 at Mitcham, Surrey, where her father was the vicar. They do not seem to have had any children. He wrote many publications on ecclesiastical matters and in support of the Protestant church; Humility is his only book of verse. (ancestry.co.uk 10 July 2023; findmypast.co.uk 10 July 2023; ACAD; CCEd 10 July 2023) SR