Author: Fielding, Allen
Biography:
FIELDING, Allen (1754-1823: findmypast.com)
The attribution of the Heroick Epistle of Hamet the Moor to one or the other of the two sons of Henry Fielding (1707-54) was made by HL and must be treated with suspicion (neither man is associated with any other literary composition) but there are no other candidates. Allen was one of five children born to Fielding's second wife Mary Daniel. He never knew his father, who died in Lisbon on 8 Oct. 1754 when Allen was only six months old. He graduated from Christchurch, Oxford (BA 1774, MA 1800) and entered the church. Ordained deacon in 1776 and priest in 1778, he held several livings in Kent (Knapwell, Sibbertswold, Hackington, Stodmarsh, Blean), some of them concurrently. He was appointed domestic chaplain to Horatio, Lord Nelson (1758-1805), in 1803. On 23 Oct. 1783 he married Ann Withingham of Canterbury; they had at least four sons. He died in the Eastbridge Hospital in Canterbury and was buried at Hackington on 11 Mar. 1823. (findmypast.com 27 Jul. 2021; ancestry.com 27 Jul. 2021; CCEd 27 Jul. 2021, "Fielding, Henry," ODNB 27 Jul. 2021)