Author: Knapp, Henry Hartopp
Biography:
KNAPP, Henry Hartopp (1782-1846: CCEd)
The son of Elizabeth and Henry Knapp, he was baptised at St. Michael's, Stamford, Lincolnshire, on 24 Aug. 1782. His father was a clergyman; Knapp followed in his footsteps. He went to Eton then to King's College Cambridge (matric. 1801, BA 1806, MA 1809), where he won the Brown medal for a Latin ode in 1803. Ordained deacon in 1809, rather than serve as a parish priest he first returned to teach at Eton and stayed there 1808-34. William Ewart Gladstone was one of his pupils. In 1820 he was ordained priest with the living of Ampthill, Bedfordshire, which he retained until his death. Knapp, who never married, seems to have been fun-loving and perhaps a gambler. He left England about 1835 to escape his creditors and settled in Elba. He died at Rome in 1846. His one other literary publication was an anonymous prose fiction, Every Day Occurrences, in 2 vols. in 1825. (findmypast.com 11 June 2021; ancestry.com 11 June 2021; CCEd 11 June 2021) HJ
Other Names:
- H. H. Knapp