Author: MONCK, George
Biography:
MONCK, George (1777-1846: ancestry.co.uk)
Although The Fall of Man and His Redemption (1835) identifies the author only as “G.M.” on the title page, the work is claimed on the title page of a later work, Pious Cottage Sketches (1837), with the author’s full name given as George Monck. He was the youngest son of John Monck (1734-1809), a barrister, and his wife Emilia Snee (1742-95). His elder brother was John Berkeley Monck (q.v.). George Monck was born at Walcot, Somerset, on 14 May 1777 and baptised at St. Swithin, Walcot, on 16 June. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, on 3 July 1797 (BA 1801) and ordained a priest on 11 Dec. 1802. He held a curacy at Westfield, Sussex, until at least 1805 but there is no evidence of any later appointments in the church. He married Sarah Hamilton (1774-1849), the daughter of Gustavus Hamilton who was the eldest son of an Irish peer, on 13 Apr. 1809 at St. Nicholas, Brighton, Sussex. (Sarah became known as the Honourable Sarah Monck.) They had one child, Gustavus George Monck, who was born in 1815. The prefaces from George Monck's two books are dated from Avon-wood Villa, Corston, near Bath. He died on 27 Feb. 1846 and was buried on 5 Mar. in the churchyard of All Saints, Corston. Sarah died on 29 Mar. 1849 and was buried in the Corston churchyard with her husband. (ancestry.co.uk 24 Apr. 2026; CCEd 24 Apr. 2026; Alumni Oxonienses; GM 25 [1846], 550; Reading Mercury 7 Mar. 1846; Morning Herald 9 Apr. 1849) SR