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Author: Partridge, Samuel

Biography:

PARTRIDGE, Samuel (1750-1817: findmypast.com)

The works that appear under his authorship in this bibliography are uncharacteristically lightweight productions from the latter years of Partridge’s life. He was baptised at St. Swithin’s, Lincoln, on 26 Jul. 1750, the son of Henry and Jane (Hewson) Partridge, who had married in Lincoln on 8 Jul. 1733. (GM unaccountably says that he was born at Salthill [in Ireland, or possibly Slough] and that his mother kept an inn.) He was educated at Eton and at Oxford (matric Corpus Christi 1768, demy Magdalen 1771-4, BA 1772, MA 1775, Fellow 1774-82) and entered the church (deacon 1772, priest 1775). He held a variety of livings, most of them in Lincolnshire, and settled as Vicar of Boston (1785-1817) and of Wigtoft with Quadring (1797-1817). He also became domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln (1785) and to Baron Gwydir (1797). Outside the Church, he was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a magistrate, chairman of the quarter sessions for his district. He married Ann Colby (1758-88) at Boston on 18 Feb. 1782; their two children died in infancy. On 8 Feb 1790 he married Lucy Burrough or Burroughs at Boston; they had three daughters and a son. She died at Boston and was buried there at his church, St. Botolph’s, on 4 Aug. 1797. Her husband was also buried there, on 1 Aug. 1817. In his busy life as clergyman and magistrate, he published on social and political issues as well as on religion, but most of his works were sermons and discourses, including two volumes of sermons adapted from the writings of French Protestant clergymen (1809). (findmypast.com 27 Aug. 2023; GM Aug. 1817, 186; CCEd 27 Aug. 2023; Alumni Oxonienses; Stamford Mercury 1 Aug. 1817)

 

 

Other Names:

  • S. Partridge
 

Books written (3):

Oxford: printed and sold by Munday and Slatter, 1813
2nd edn. Cambridge/ London: Deighton and Sons/ Wilkie, and Seeley, 1814
Boston [Lincs]/ London: J. Noble/ Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816