Author: PHELPS, Jane Theodosia
Biography:
PHELPS, Jane Theodosia, formerly LUPTON (1788?-1857: ancestry.co.uk 20 Jan. 2021)
She was baptised 24 April 1788 in Thame, Oxfordshire, the second daughter of Sackville Bale Lupton (1755-1840), a well-known surgeon, and his wife Jane Theodosia Style (1756-1834), who had married in 1780 and went on to have eleven children. She married the Rev. Thomas Prankerd Phelps (MA Hertford, Oxford, 1806), at Thame on 10 July 1809. They had one daughter and two sons who were both educated at Worcester College, Oxford, and entered the church. Her husband was Rector of Crowell, Oxfordshire 1814-30 and then Vicar of Tarrington, Herefordshire from 1832 until his death in 1854. She died at the vicarage of her son Henry Dampier Phelps at Birling, Kent, on 22 June 1857, with her age given as 69. The attribution to this particular Mrs. Phelps is circumstantial: place of publication, literary and scholarly interests of her father and brother Harry, connections to Oxford and the 1831 Prize Poem subject of Suttee, religious poems supporting the established church, a son named Henry mentioned in a poem, residence at Crowell in 1830, her parents’ residence at Thame. (ancestry.co.uk 20 Jan. 2021; OFHS; CCEd; Monthly Magazine Aug. 1809, 113; Oxford Journal 5 Aug., 1780, 11 Jan. 1834, 27 June 1857; GM Aug. 1840, 220, June 1854, 664, Aug. 1857, 228) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Phelps