Author: Pace, William
Biography:
PACE, William (1762-1845: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 31 Jan. 1762 and baptised on 15 Feb. at St. Mary’s, Battersea, south London, the son of William Pace (1727-86) and Sarah Napper (1738-1804), who had married at Wisborough Green, Sussex, in 1758. He was educated at Westminster where he was a King’s Scholar in 1777. He proceeded to Trinity College Cambridge (matric. 1781, BA 1785, MA 1819) and entered the established church. He was ordained deacon (1785) and priest (1786). Nothing is known of his early church career before 1794 but he may have been curate at St. Mary’s, Sundridge, Kent, where he married Charlotte Pye on 10 May 1791. (Her parish was Newington, Lambeth.) They had three sons and two daughters. He was rector of Rampisham and Wraxall, Dorset (1794-1845) and from about 1810 chaplain and sometime secretary to the Philanthropic Society in St. George’s Fields, Southwark, which printed the work listed here. He was mostly resident in London at 5 China Terrace, Lambeth, but towards the end of his life moved to Albury, Surrey. He died at Bath, Somerset, on 22 Mar. 1845, aged 82, and was buried at the abbey. His wife also died there in 1850. (ancestry.co.uk 2 July 2023; findmypast.co.uk 2 July 2023; CCEd 2 July 2023; The Records of Old Westminsters [1928], 2: 710; OJ 29 Mar. 1845; GM July 1845, 91, and Feb. 1850, 229) AA