Author: Huntingford, Henry
Biography:
HUNTINGFORD, Henry (1787-1867: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Warminster, Wiltshire, on 19 Sept. 1787, the third son and youngest of at least eight children of Rev. Thomas Huntingford (1750-87), Master of Warminster School, and his wife Mary Seagram (1751-1814), who had married at Warminster in 1774. His father had died in Mar. 1787. He was a scholar at Winchester College in 1802 and a Fellow from 1814. He proceeded to New College, Oxford (matric. 1807, BCL 1814, LLB 1814, Fellow 1811-14). He was ordained in 1811 and became Rector of Bishop’s Hampton, Hereford, in 1822 on a comfortable stipend of just under £650 p.a. He was also Prebendary and Praelector at Hereford Cathedral. He married Eugenia Jane Money (1812-71) on 6 Aug. 1840, at Much Marcie, Hereford, where her father was Vicar. They had a child who did not survive childbirth. He died at Goodrest, Great Malvern, on 2 Nov. 1867, leaving an estate of £8000 to his widow. In addition to the work listed here, he produced scholarly editions of Pindar, edited his uncle George Isaac Huntingford’s Thoughts on the Trinity (1832), and translated from French Romanist Conversations; or, Dialogues between a Romanist and a Protestant (1826). There are eight volumes of his 1817 travel diary at Bodley and a diary 1849-55 is at Winchester College. (ancestry.co.uk 22 May 2022; findmypast.co.uk 22 May 2022; CCEd 22 May 2022; Hereford Journal 12 Aug. 1840; Morning Post 5 Nov. 1867, 21 Feb. 1871) AA