Author: Charlton, William Henry
Biography:
CHARLTON, William Henry (1787-1866: ancestry.co.uk)
There is no record of his baptism but the 1851 and 1861 censuses record that he was born in Manchester and the Oxford entrance register gives his father as Charles, gentleman. He was therefore probably the son of Charles Charlton and Margaret Wolstenholme, who married at Manchester cathedral on 21 Nov. 1786. It is not known where he went to school nor why he went to university so late, at the age of twenty-eight. He went to Magdalen College Oxford (matric. 1815, BA 1820, MA 1822) and was ordained deacon (1819) and priest (1820). He was vicar of Felmingham, Norfolk (1834-66); stipendiary curate of St. Pancras Old Church (1823-5), London; of St. Mary’s Bryanston Square, Camden, London (1825-45); and stipendiary curate at St. Marylebone parish church, London (1851-66). He married Harriet Masters on 11 June 1812 at Walcot St. Swithin, Bath. They had at least nine children. She died in 1852. He died on 11 July 1866 at 7 Nottingham Terrace, Regent’s Park, London, and was buried at All Souls, Kensal Green, leaving an estate of under £3000. He published a large collection, Sonnets Sacred and Miscellaneous; Other Poems (1854). Poems and Plays Original and Translated (1868) is often catalogued as his but was by his son, the Rev. William Henry Charlton (1814-74), rector of Easton, Stamford. (ancestry.co.uk 23 Jan. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 23 Jan. 2023; CCEd 23 Jan. 2023; Boase, 1: 596; Bristol Mirror 27 June 1812; Bell’s Weekly Messenger 16 Aug. 1852, 21 July 1866; Alumni Oxoniensis) AA
Other Names:
- W. H. Charlton