Author: Hue, Clement Berkeley
Biography:
HUE, Clement Berkeley (1812-93: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 2 Oct. 1812 and baptised on 30 Oct. at St. Pancras, Old Church, the eldest of three sons of Clement Hue, a physician, and his wife Lucy Berkeley, who had married in 1811. He was educated at Westminster and in 1831 went up to Trinity College Cambridge (BA 1835 MA 1839) where he won the Chancellor’s Medal in 1833 for his poem, Delphi. He was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn on 30 Apr. 1835. He appears to have been ordained in 1837 but there is no record of him in CCEd or Crockford’s Directory and he does not appear in ecclesiastical notices in newspapers or journals. In the censuses he gave his occupation as a Church of England clergyman but added in 1881 that he was not practising--“without cure of souls”--so he may never have held a living. He married Elizabeth Curtis on 16 Dec. 1835 at St. Marylebone. They had five daughters and one son who all survived into adulthood. For reasons unknown they went to St. Helier, Jersey, soon after the marriage and appear to have remained there 1837-51. All their children were born there. From 1851 to 1871 they lived in London at 9 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, the family home owned by his father, Clement Hue MD, MRCS (1780-1861). From 1881 until their deaths they lived at The Cottage, St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight. He died on 6 Feb. 1893 in the Isle of Wight and left an estate of just over £15,000. Elizabeth Hue had died the previous year. (ancestry.co.uk 23 Jan. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 23 Jan. 2022; Cambridge Chronicle 8 May 1833; Gentlewoman 20 Feb. 1892, 18 Feb. 1893) AA