Author: L'Oste, Charles
Biography:
L’OSTE, Charles (1721-78: ancestry.com)
The eldest son of a Lincolnshire clergyman, Charles L’Oste, and his wife Mary Fenwick, he was born in Louth and baptised at St. James’s church there on 23 Nov. 1721: all four brothers followed their father’s profession. He was educated at Hertford College, Oxford (matric. 1740, BA 1744, MA 1747), and was ordained deacon in 1744 and priest in 1746. His first appointment was as a curate at Langton, near Horncastle, Lincolnshire, in 1744, and then as rector from 1746 until his death in 1778. He was also rector of the nearby parish of Greetham from 1750 until his death. On 27 July 1749 he married Elizabeth Mattison at Waithe, Lincolnshire; they had five children of whom at least one died in infancy. His verse version of the De Veritate Religionis Christianae (1627) of the great Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) was both a work of scholarship and an attempt at popularisation. He is not known to have published anything else. He died presumably at his home in Horncastle and was buried at Kirkby cum Odgodsby on 8 Aug. 1778. (ancestry.com 29 Nov. 2023; findmypast.com 29 Nov. 2023; Alumni Oxonienses; CCEd 29 Nov. 2023) HJ