Author: Carr, William Windle
Biography:
CARR, William Windle (1736-1804: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 31 Aug. 1736 at St. Michael's, New Malton, Yorkshire. He was educated at schools in Coxwold and Beverley and entered Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, as a pensioner in 1755. He married Ann Twedell on 5 Sept. 1759 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. He was ordained deacon in 1777 but nothing is known of his clerical career prior to his appointment as Rector of Markfield, Leicestershire (1792-1804). He appears to have spent most of his time in London. His first wife probably died at an unknown date and he remarried. At the end of his life, he was in financial difficulty and applied to the Royal Literary Fund in 1801 and was awarded £10. His widow Mary (not Ann) also applied after his death and was awarded £10. He died in St. Marylebone, London, and was buried on 11 Aug. 1804 at St. Mary, Paddington Green. His Poems on Various Subjects (1791) contained "The Muse: A Monody to the Memory of Mr. William Shenstone," a sonnet "On the Independence of America," and an epistle, "Infidelity," attacking Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, and other philosophes. (ancestry.co.uk 24 Oct. 2020; RLF 1/102; CCEd; Spenserians) AA