Author: Le Grice, Charles Valentine
Biography:
LE GRICE, Charles Valentine (1773-1858: ODNB)
As his name might suggest, he was born on St. Valentine’s Day, 14 Feb. 1773, and baptised on 30 Apr. at his father’s church of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, the eldest of eight children of Rev. Charles Le Grice and his wife Sophia Ann Day. He was educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London, where S. T. Coleridge and Charles Lamb (qq.v.) were fellow students and friends, and went on to Trinity College, Cambridge (matric. 1792, BA 1796, MA 1805). Before taking orders in the C of E he accepted a position in 1796 as tutor to William John Godolphin Nicholls (d 1815) of Trereife House, near Penzance, Cornwall, and on 16 May 1799 he married the young man’s wealthy widowed mother, Mary (Ustick) Nicholls (1756-1821). The couple had one son, Day Perry Le Grice, baptised on 2 Mar. 1800. Le Grice was ordained deacon (1799) and priest (1800) and became perpetual curate of St. Mary’s, Penzance, and of Madron, in the same county (1806-31). He led an active life as a parish priest, local magistrate, and writer. He reviewed for CR and contributed occasional articles, including reminiscences of Coleridge, to GM. Other publications include a Cambridge prize declamation (1794), an Analysis of Paley’s Principles of Moral Philosophy (1796), a translation from Greek of Daphnis and Chloe (1803), and a few sermons. He died at Trereife on 24 Dec. 1858 and was buried at Madron on Dec. 31. (ODNB 14 Dec. 2023; ancestry.com 14 Dec. 2023; findmypast.com 14 Dec. 2023; ACAD)
Other Names:
- C. V. Le Grice
- C.V. Le Grice