Author: Exton, Richard Brudenell
Biography:
EXTON, Richard Brudenell (1780-1863: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 17 Mar. 1780 and baptised on 26 May at St. Peter and St. Paul, the only son of Rev. Richard Exton and his wife Mary Crook, who had married the previous year. Nothing is known of his education and he is not recorded in the Oxford and Cambridge registers (although he later styled himself MA). He married Elizabeth Metcalf on 1 May 1804 at St. Anne’s, Soho. A daughter, Jane, was born in 1812 and baptised at King’s Norton, Northamptonshire, in 1815. There may have been other children. He was ordained deacon (1814) and priest (1815). He held various curacies in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire from about 1812 before moving to Suffolk where he was curate of Athelington from 1822 and of Cretingham from 1827 until his death. He was also domestic chaplain to George, Earl of Clarendon, and a magistrate for the county. His wife died in 1849 and in the 1851 and 1861 Censuses he is recorded as a widower living with his daughter Jane. He underwent insolvency proceedings in 1855. He died on 25 Aug. 1863 and was buried at Cretingham. In addition to the title listed here he published an array of works, the most notable of which are The Castle of Insolence. A Poem (1836), Sixty Lectures on . . . the Psalms (1847), An Essay on the Physiology of the Sense of Feeling (1851), and A Century of Sonnets on Sacred Subjects (1860). (Copsey 1, 179; ancestry.co.uk 19 Oct. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 19 Oct. 2022; CCEd 19 Oct. 2022; Suffolk Chronicle 5 Sept. 1863; London Gazette, various issues) AA