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Author: Hubbard, John Clarke

Biography:

HUBBARD, John Clarke (1745-1805: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 18 Mar. 1745 at Sonning, Berkshire, the son of the Rev. Thomas Hubbard (1716-1781) and his wife Jenny Maria Pell (1717-1780). He entered Merton, Oxford, aged 17, in 1762 (MA 1769). His father had been educated at Gonville and Caius, Cambridge, (MA 1742) and spent the rest of his life as Rector of St. Andrews, Sonning. (In 1756 Thomas Hubbard allowed the blind “thresher-poet” Stephen Duck [q.v.] to be buried in the churchyard on the grounds of “lunacy” rather than exclusion for his suicide by drowning.) John Clarke Hubbard married Henrietta Partington at St. Andrew, Holborn, on 14 Nov. 1777. Although his early Sermon preached . . . in the Magdalen Chapel, St. George’s Fields (1773) was well received, it was not until he published his anti-revolutionary poem Jacobinism (1801) that he acquired fame and was rewarded by the living of St. John’s, Horsleydown (in the gift of the Crown with a £200 p.a. stipend). His final work, dedicated to Beilby Porteus (q.v.), Bishop of London and fellow-anti-Jacobin, The Triumphs of Poesy (1803), was also highly patriotic. He died on 7 May 1805 and was buried at St. Matthew’s, Bethnal Green. (ancestry.co.uk 6 Oct. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 6 Oct. 2020; Sonning Baptisms, OFHS; GM Oct. 1781, 491; Star 29 May 1805; GM July 1805, 679) AA

 

Other Names:

  • J. C. Hubbard
 

Books written (2):

London: G. and W. Nicol, 1801
London: G. and W. Nicol, 1803