Author: Nash, Samuel John
Biography:
NASH, Samuel John (1763-1829: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 14 Sept. 1763 and baptised on 25 Sept. at St. James’s, Clerkenwell, London, as Samuel Nash, the son of Samuel Nash and his wife Elizabeth Bennett, who had married at Saint Luke, Old Street on 25 Sept. 1762. The Cambridge and Oxford registers record his father as of Marylebone. He was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge (matric. 1782) and migrated to St. Alban Hall, Oxford (later incorporated into Merton) (matric. 1790) before returning to St. John’s (LL.B. 1790). He entered the Established Church and was ordained deacon and priest in 1784. He was Vicar of Enstone, Oxford (1784-1829) and Great Tew (1790-1829). He married Lucy Rodd on 1 Dec. 1785 at Enstone, and they went on to have at least five children. He died, as Samuel Nash, on 21 Oct. 1829, aged 68 (sic) and was buried at Great Tew on 25 Oct. His wife, Lucy, survived him and died at Enstone, aged 90, in 1840. His Juvenile Epigrams, and Poems (1800), published as by Samuel John Nash, LL.B., contains unremarkable verse and his two prose essays, “The Force and Beauty of the English Language” and “Philosophy” contributed little to their subjects and passed unnoticed. His Address to the Board of Agriculture, on the Subject of Enclosures (1801) also attracted no attention. (ancestry.co.uk 11 Oct. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 11 Oct. 2024; CCEd 11 Oct. 2024; OUCH 7 Nov. 1829; GM Dec. 1829, 571; Oxford Chronicle 24 Oct. 1840) AA