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Author: Reeve, Joseph

Biography:

REEVE, Joseph (1733-1820: ODNB)

He was born on 11 May 1733, one of about fourteen children of Richard Reeve of Island Hill, Studley, Warwickshire, and his wife Anne Haskey. He was educated at the English Jesuits’ College at St. Omer (1746-52), and later taught there for about eight years. He was ordained priest around 1763 and in August 1767 he was sent to England to be Chaplain to Lord Clifford and his family at Ugbrooke Park, where he remained until his death. He died on 2 May 1820, aged 87, and was buried at Ugbrooke three days later, with a funeral address given in St. Cyprian’s Chapel by Rev. George Oliver DD (1781-1861). In addition to the works listed here, he wrote among other things Practical Discourses on the Perfections and Wonderful Works of God (1788), Practical Discourses upon the Divinity and Wonderful Works of Jesus Christ (1796) and A Short View of the History of the Christian Church (1802-3). He also left in manuscript (at Stonyhurst College) a Narrative concerning the Expulsion of the English Jesuits from their College at St. Omer. Other manuscripts are in the Archives of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (Stonyhurst). (ODNB [Reeve and George Oliver]; Geoffrey Holt, St. Omers and Bruges Colleges 1593-1793: A Biographical Dictionary [CTS 1979] and The English Jesuits, 1630-1829: A Biographical Dictionary [CTS 1984]; George Oliver, Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion [1857], 395-401; West Country Poets398; Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post 4 May 1820) AA

 

Books written (3):

London: Robson, 1776
2nd edn Exeter/ London: [no publisher: printed by Trewman, sold by Trewman/ Robson], 1794
2nd edn. Exeter: [no publisher: printed and sold by Trewman], 1794