Author: Huntingford, Thomas
Biography:
HUNTINGFORD, Thomas (1750-87: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 29 Apr. 1750 at St. Thomas, Winchester, the second son of James Huntingford and his wife Sarah Oliver, who had married in 1747. He was educated at Winchester and went up initially to Trinity College, Oxford (matric. 1769) before moving to New College (BA 1773, MA 1777) where his elder brother George Isaac Huntingford (q.v.) was a contemporary. He entered the church in 1773 and also taught at New College School, Oxford, before opening his own establishment in Holywell in early 1773. For reasons unknown he returned to Wiltshire, where he was appointed Master of the Free Grammar School at Warminster (sometimes known as Lord Weymouth’s Grammar School) in 1773. He married Mary Seagram on 7 Apr. 1774 at St. Denys and St. Lawrence, Warminster, where he was probably Curate, with the ceremony performed by his brother George Isaac. They had six daughters and two sons, including Henry Huntingford (q.v.). He died on 11 Mar. 1787 and was buried at Warminster on 16 Mar. His brother, George Isaac, was appointed his successor at the Grammar School. His clerical career is unclear but in his final years (1783-7) he was Rector of Corsley, Wilts., with his brother also succeeding him there. In addition to the work listed here, he was probably the author of A Vocabulary of the Words in . . . Lily’s Grammar (1775) and later announced the imminent publication of A Table of the Greek Dialects (1777) which does not seem to have appeared. (ancestry.co.uk 30 May 2022; findmypast.co.uk 30 May 2022; CCEd 30 May 2022; Winchester Scholars [1888], 258; OJ 26 Dec. 1772, 29 May 1773, 16 Apri.1774; Hampshire Chronicle 6 Jan. 1777; Reading Mercury 26 Mar. 1787; William Upcott, A Bibliographical Account [1818], 3: 1315) AA