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Author: Philpot, Charles

Biography:

PHILPOT, Charles (1759-11823: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 18 May 1759 and baptised on 28 July at St. Martin’s, Leicester, the only son of Charles Philpot (1737-60) and Frances Groome (1737-95), who had married in 1758. He was educated at the Foundation School, Leicester, and proceeded to Emmanuel College, Cambridge (matric. 1776, BA 1780, MA 1787). He won the Seatonian poetry prize in 1790 and 1791 with the works listed here. He was ordained deacon (1781) and priest (1793) and was then rector of Ripple, Kent, from 1793 until his death. He was also vicar of St. Margaret-at-Cliffe, near Dover, Kent, 1813-23. He married Maria La Fargue (1772-1851), only daughter of Rev. Peter La Fargue (1738-1804), on 24 July 1794 at All Saints, Stamford, Lincolnshire. They had four sons and four daughters but two of the daughters died in 1812 and 1813, aged 13 and 9. Their son, Joseph Charles Philpot, became a Baptist minister and Oxford evangelical. Charles Philpot’s final years were spent writing a “History of the Rise and Progress of the Reformed Church in France,” unfinished at his death, never published, and possibly inspired by his marriage into a family of French Huguenot descent. He died on 12 Feb. 1823 and was buried at Ripple. His wife, Maria, died at Stoke, near Plymouth, in 1851. (ancestry.co.uk 2 Oct. 2023; CCEd 2 Oct. 2023; ODNB [son] 2 Oct. 2023; Bath Chronicle 4 Nov. 1790, 27 Oct. 1791; Cambridge Chronicle 21 Feb. 1823; GM Apr. 1823, 379; Western Courier19 Mar. 1851) AA

 

Books written (3):

Cambridge/ London: Merrill/ Cadell; White; Wilkie; Evans, 1790
Cambridge: 1790
Cambridge/ London: Merrill/ Cadell; White; Wilkie; Evans, 1791