Author: Goring, Henry
Biography:
GORING, Henry (1778-1859: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born in Holborn, London, and baptised at Washington, Sussex, on 20 Sept. 1778, the youngest son of Sir Harry Goring (1739-1824) of Highden Manor and estate, Washington, Sussex, and his second wife, Elizabeth Fisher (1756-80), who had married at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London the previous year. His early education is not known and it may have been in London where his father had a house at Chapel Street, Portland Place, Marylebone. He proceeded to Brasenose College, Oxford (matric. 1795, BA 1799) and subsequently lived in the Holywell parish of Oxford for over fifty years. He never married. He gravitated to dissent and was re-baptised by the Rev. John Hinton at the New Road Baptist church, Oxford but later rejoined the Episcopal church where he remained until his death. He died on 1 June 1859 at Oxford and was buried at St. Cross, Holywell, Oxford, leaving an estate valued at £20,000, with various legacies to several religious and social institutions of which he had been a long-term supporter. These ranged from the British and Foreign Bible Society to bursaries for girls to learn French at school in Holywell street. The Christian Companion(1835) was widely known to be his work and he later added a number of supplements. (ancestry.co.uk 13 Feb. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 13 Feb. 2024; OUCH 11 June 1859; GM July 1859, 92) AA