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Author: Hollingsworth, Arthur George Harper

Biography:

HOLLINGSWORTH, Arthur George Harper (1802-59: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 26 May 1802 at Hackney, the eldest of six children of Rev. Samuel Hollingsworth and his wife Martha Elizabeth Karr/Kerr who had married the previous year at St. Mary Islington. The family moved to Ireland in 1817 when his father  became Rector of Cove, co. Cork. He went up to Trinity College Dublin in 1820 (BA 1825, MA 1828) and entered the established church. He married Margaret Selbey de Montford (Montfort) on 25 June 1825 at Cobh, Cork, Ireland. He was Curate 1824-35 at Monkstown, Cork, where three daughters were born. They moved to England in late 1835 when he was appointed Vicar of Stowmarket and Stowupland, Suffolk, a living he held until his death. He died of heart disease at Langer House, Felixstowe, Suffolk, on 2 Jan. 1859 and was buried at Holy Trinity, Stowupland. His wife survived him and died in 1862. His mother had joined the household in 1843 after the death of his father and also died at Langer House, in 1867. In addition to his poem listed here (which attracted little attention), he wrote a well-regarded History of Stowmarket (1844) and the usual array of sermons and theological essays, the most notable of which was The Democracy of Infidelity and the Monarchical Principle of Religion (1837). (ancestry.co.uk 6 Apr. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 6 Apr. 2022; Alumni Dubliniensis [1924], 406; East Suffolk Mercury 8 Jan. 1859; GM Feb. 1859, 215; Suffolk Chronicle 9 Feb. 1867) AA

 

Other Names:

  • A. G. H. Hollingsworth
 

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