Author: Greaves, Thomas Berkeley
Biography:
GREAVES, Thomas Berkeley (1774-1850: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 7 Nov. 1774 and baptised on 10 Nov. at Westoning, Bedford, the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Greaves (1732-1807) and his wife Elizabeth Campart, formerly Firth (1747-78), who had married at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, on 7 Sept. 1773. He was educated at Broughton Astley and Rugby, and went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1792 (BA 1797, MA 1800, Fellow 1799-1804). He then entered the church and was Curate at Donnington, Cambridge, before becoming Vicar of All Saints, South Lynn (1811-50) and Vicar of Wiggenhall, St. German (1814-50). He married Eleanor Humphreys (1771-1846), the daughter of an East India Company Lt.-Colonel, at St. Marylebone on 16 Jun. 1804. They had two daughters and a son. His two collections of 1811, The Wilderness, dedicated to William Hayley, and its appendix The Copse, consist mostly of occasional verse and were old-fashioned by this time with the exception of a few poems on the poor: "The Little Gleaners," "The Young Beggar-Woman," "The Vagabond Fair" and "The Condemned Criminal." He died on 20 Jan. 1850 at Randsworth, Norfolk, and was buried at All Saints, South Lynn. (ancestry.co.uk 6 Jul. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 6 Jul. 2021; CCEd 6 Jul. 2021; Saint James’s Chronicle 7 Jul. 1804; Norfolk Chronicle 2 Feb. 1850; GM Apr. 1850, 446) AA