Author: Chapman, William
Biography:
CHAPMAN, William (1757-1810: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the son of Samuel Chapman, a physician (or a surgeon) in Sudbury, Suffolk, and his second wife Elizabeth Hawys. He was born in Sudbury on 15 Feb. 1757 and baptised at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London, on 6 Mar. 1758. He was educated at Charterhouse school and at Pembroke College, Cambridge (matric. 29 Sept. 1775, BA 1781, MA 1784), and became a deacon in 1781 and a priest in 1782. He was Rector at Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire, from 1788 to 1810. On 12 Dec.1790 he married Ann Thornton in Margate; they had at least two sons (both became clergymen) and two daughters. In 1803 he was made curate at St. John the Baptist church in Margate and he was vicar there from 1809 until his death in Sept. 1810. He was buried in the churchyard of his church on 21 Sept. 1810; his will was proved on 2 Jan. 1811 and indicates that his wife had predeceased him. The Parriad (1788) is directed against Samual Parr’s Præfationis ad tres Gulielmi Bellendeni libros for its elevation of three whig politicians—Edmund Burke, Lord North, and Charles James Fox—and its attack on William Pitt the younger. His only other known publication was A Sermon for the Benefit of the Margate Sea-bathing Infirmary (1798). (ancestry.co.uk 8 Nov. 2023; ACAD; CCEd 8 Nov. 2023; ODNB [for Samuel Parr] 8 Nov. 2023) SR
Other Names:
- W. Chapman