Author: Church, John Henry
Biography:
CHURCH, John Henry (1797-1869: ancestry.com)
Baptized on 9 July 1797 at St Andrew Holborn, London, he was the son of John Church and his wife, Mary Shearman. On 4 Oct. 1827 at St Clement Danes, Westminster, he was married by license to Catharine Love Newman (1796-1873), a daughter of John Newman of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, and his wife, Elizabeth. The couple had two children, Henry John (1829-1898) and Adolphus Edgar (1830-1902). A successful solicitor at Colchester, by 1841 he had twenty-six clerks in his employ. His son Adolphus, who articled with him, passed the bar examination in 1855. Church died at Colchester on 3 June 1869. His effects at probate were estimated under £200. His poem, The Moss-Grown Cell, “Printed for the Author,” includes a list of about 140 subscribers; except for local MPs and priests and the notorious Isabella Anne Seymour-Conway, marchioness of Hertford (1759-1834), none are especially notable. (ancestry.com 5 Oct. 2023; findmypast.com 5 Oct. 2023; PROB 11/1797; Journal of Jurisprudence 49 [1855], 68; Register and Magazine of Biography 2 [1869], 44) JC