Author: Nursey, Perry
Biography:
NURSEY, Perry (1798-1867: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 23 Dec. 1798 at The Grove, Little Bealings, Suffolk, and baptised four days later, the third son of Perry Nursey (1771-1841), surgeon, landscape painter and gardener, and his wife Anne Simpson, an heiress (1766-1844), who had married in 1795. He was educated at East Bergholt and Stowmarket and went up to Corpus Christi, Cambridge in 1818 before moving to Sidney Sussex (BA 1822). He entered the Church and held various curacies at Dallinghoo, Suffolk (1822), East Dereham, Norfolk (1823), Titteshall, Norfolk (1826) before obtaining the living at Burlingham, St Andrew and St. Peter, Norfolk (1835-63) and then at St. Peter, Crostwick, Suffolk (1863-7). He married Charlotte Smith (1803-33), daughter of the Rev. William Press Smith on 8 Jan. 1827 at Scarning, Norfolk. They had three children. She died on 5 June 1833 and was buried at Scarning. He then married Sarah Boult (1811-92) of Aldeby, Norfolk, on 28 Dec. 1837 at Little Blakenham, Suffolk. They had three sons and two daughters. She survived him and died in Bromley in 1892. He died at Crostwick Rectory on 16 Apr. 1867 “after a long and painful illness,” aged 68, and was buried there. Like his father and brother, Richard Wilson Nursey (1816-73), he also painted and exhibited at the Norwich Society of Artists and the Royal Academy. Evening, with other Poems (1829) is sometimes mistakenly attributed to his father. (It was dedicated to him.) The volume is largely unremarkable except perhaps for the imagining of Africa from darkest Norfolk in "Reflections on Africa" (Evening, 110-15). (ancestry.co.uk 7 Aug. 2021; CCEd 7 Aug 2021; www.suffolkartists.co.uk; Bury and Norwich Post 25 Sept. 1822, 17 Jan. 1827, 23 Apr. 1867; Ipswich Journal 15 June 1833; Norwich Mercury 6 Jan. 1838; Anthony Adolph, Perry Nursey 1771-1840: a Catalogue [2021]) AA