Author: Dupuis, Thomas Skelton
Biography:
DUPUIS, Thomas Skelton (1765-95: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 23 Dec. 1765 and baptised on 27 Jan. 1766 at St. George’s, Hanover Square, Westminster, London, the eldest son of Thomas Sanders Dupuis (1733-96), musician and organist at the Chapel Royal from 1779, and his wife Martha Skelton (1745-81), who had married in the same church on 16 July 1765. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford (matric. 1783, BA 1789). Ordained deacon in 1789 and priest in 1791, he was Curate of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex 1789-91 and of North Ockenden, Essex 1791-95. He married Letitia Canes on 7 Jul. 1787 at St, George’s, Hanover Square. There was no issue. He died on 19 Dec. 1795. Miscellaneous Poetry reprinted the oratorio Elijah which had been composed at Oxford between 1 Aug. and 15 Nov. 1785 with music by fellow-student John Wall Callcott (1766-1821)--part of which had been performed at Freemason’s Hall, London, for the benefit of the Humane Society on 1 Feb. 1786 and published along with An Ode to the Humane Society (1786) by Edward Burnaby Greene (q.v.). (ancestry.co.uk 27 Jun. 2022; “Dupuis, Thomas Sanders,” ODNB 27 Jun. 2022; Ipswich Journal 26 Dec. 1795; GM Dec. Supp. 1795, 1113, and Jul. 1796, 621-2; J. J. Howard, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica [1880], 3: 250-1; Musical Times 1 Jun. 1896, 320; BL, Add Ms. 27634: 1785) AA