Author: Coates, John
Biography:
COATES, John (1715-82: findmypast.co.uk)
He was baptised on 8 July 1715 at Ganton, Yorkshire, the son of Rev. James Coates (1677-1736), with his mother’s name not given. He was educated under John Clarke at Shipton school, Overton, near York, and then proceeded to Oriel College Oxford (matric. 1734) but may have migrated to New College to become a student of civil law. There are no records of any degrees being awarded. He was ordained deacon (1739) and priest (1740) and was first appointed vicar of Acomb (1740-65). He was later perpetual curate at Nether Poppleton (1747-82), vicar of Overton with Shipton (1750-82), and perpetual curate of Newton upon Ouse (1751-82). At the time of his death he was also master at Skipton Free Grammar School. He died at Kirk Hammerton (GM) or Shipton, Yorkshire (Leeds Intelligencer) on 28 July 1782 and was buried two days later at St. Cuthbert’s Overton. His wife Margaret (maiden name unknown--with several candidates) died on 20 Feb. 1797, aged 84, and was also buried there. The volume listed here was dedicated to Sir Griffith Boynton and was well subscribed. It consists mostly of fairly commonplace occasional verses with many being school exercises written by Coates and his school-fellows at Shipton. Francis Meeke’s “To some Ladies going to be electrified” and Coates’s Greek Ode on the Crucifixion (with translation) are, however, original and unusual. (findmypast.co.uk 24 June 2023; ancestry.co.uk 24 June 2023; Anna B. Bisset, York Clergy Ordinations 1700-1749 [Borthwick List and Index 25, 2000], 15; GM Aug. 1782, 406; Leeds Intelligencer 6 Aug. 1782, 20 Feb. 1797) AA
Other Names:
- the Reverend Mr. Coates