Author: French, Robert Nicholas
Biography:
FRENCH, Robert Nicholas (1775-1862: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 6 Jul. 1775 at St. Peter’s, Derby, the fifth of at least seven children of Richard French (1739-1801), a retired Captain in the Royal Horse Guards, and his wife Millicent Mundy (1746-89) of Markeaton Park, Derbyshire, and Osbaston Hall, Leicestershire, who had married in 1770. He went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and appears to have proceeded to BD (under the ten-year rule) without taking his degree. He was Curate at Castle Sowerby (1799), Foremark (1800), Rector of Seckington, Warwickshire and Weston on Trent, Derbyshire (1800) and Vicar of Osmaston, Derbyshire (1811). He held these livings concurrently. For at least the last twenty years of his life, he lived at Hanover Cottages, Regent’s Park. He died there 22 Dec. 1862 and was buried at All Souls, Kensal Green. He never married and left an estate of around £9000. His poetry is of minor historical interest for the "Ode on the Death of Marshall Suwarrow [sic]" and "Elegiac Verses to the Memory of Dr. Darwin." Some but not all of the poems are included in an earlier ms collection (1803) that he compiled to give to Sophia (Coutts) Burdett--now in the Beinecke Library at Yale. (ancestry.co.uk 18 Jul. 2021; CCEd 18 Jul. 2021; Morning Advertiser 29 Dec. 1862; GM Feb. 1863, 251; Stephen Glover, The History of the County of Derby [1829] Part II, 591) AA
Other Names:
- R. N. French