Author: Hollingsworth, Nathaniel John
Biography:
HOLLINGSWORTH, Nathaniel John (1771-1839: ancestry.co.uk)
His father was John Hollingsworth of Battersea, Surrey, and his mother was Honoria Newnham; they married at St. Martin-In-The-Fields, London, on 27 Dec. 1768. Nathaniel was baptised at St. Mary's, Battersea, on 20 July 1771. He studied at St John’s, Oxford (BA 1793, MA 1796). He gave up his fellowship when he married Lucy Compton Neve at Oxford on 10 Feb. 1795. He was curate at Sedgefield, Durham, until 1806. The title page of an 1809 published sermon, England’s Cause for Thankfulness During the Reign of George the Third, designates him “Vicar of Haltwhistle, in the County of Northumberland; Perpetual Curate of Hartlepool, in the County of Durham; Minister of Tavistock Chapel, London; and Chaplain to the Dowager Viscountess Barrington.” At the time of his death on 3 Oct. 1839, he was vicar of Boldon, Durham, and living in the Boldon Rectory. His wife had predeceased him at Durham in 1838; one son, Nathaniel, and his daughters Lucy and Mary survived him. His will, proved on 25 Aug. 1840, left £3000 to Nathaniel with the remainder of the estate to be shared equally between the daughters. Apart from sermons, his only other publication is a critique of a negative review in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine of his Fleurs (The Scorpion Critic Unmasked [1821]). (ancestry.co.uk 14 Mar. 2019, 12 Aug. 2025) SR
Other Names:
- Nathaniel Hollingsworth