Author: Homer, Philip Bracebridge
Biography:
HOMER, Philip Bracebridge (1766-1838: ODNB)
The tenth son of Susannah (Pitts) and Henry Sacheverell Homer, he was born at Birdingbury, Warwickshire, where his father was Rector, and had his early education at Rugby School. (ODNB gives the birth year as 1765 but is contradicted by Warwickshire records that give his date of birth as 22 Feb. 1766 with baptism on 1 Apr.) He went on to Magdalen College, Oxford (matric. 1781, BA 1785, MA 1788, BD 1804) but returned to teach at Rugby in 1785 and stayed as an assistant master for 37 years. By his first wife Charlotte Caroline Adamson (d 1815), whom he married at Rugby in 1805, he had at least five children, three of whom died young. By his second marriage, to Lucy Lawrence at Rugby on 27 Dec. 1816, he had at least three more. In middle age he turned from literary to academic productions: he assisted his brother Arthur in completing editions in Latin left unfinished by their brother Henry, and on his own account published schoolbooks and compiled a manuscript English-Hebrew lexicon. He died on 26 Apr. 1838 at Rugby and was buried on 2 May at St. Andrew’s Church. (ODNB 15 Oct. 2022; findmypast.com 15 May 2022; ancestry.com 15 May 2022)