Author: Salisbury, William
Biography:
SALISBURY, William (1707-96: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 23 Jul. 1707 at Mancetter, Atherstone, Warwickshire, the only son of William Salisbury, barrister, and Judith Farmer, who had married at St. Michael’s Coventry, on 27 Jul. 1704. He was educated at Charterhouse and St. John’s College, Cambridge (matric. 1721, BA 1725, MA 1729, BD 1737, Fellow 1728-53). Ordained deacon in 1729 and priest 1730, he was Rector of Newton Blossomville, Bucks. (1730-52), Moreton (1752-96) and Little Hallingbury (1766-96) (both Essex). He was also a Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral (1769-96) and Reader at Charterhouse (1733-54). He married Ann Parker on 14 May 1754 at Moreton. They had one daughter. He died on 31 Jan. 1796 and was buried at St. Mary’s, Moreton. The work listed here is dated [1750?] by most library catalogues but this date is disproved by internal evidence (p. 25) referring to the married state of Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale, whom he refers to as his “name-sake.” He was also the author of Two Grammatical Essays(1768) and translated Jean-Baptiste Bullet’s History of the Establishment of Christianity (1776), to which he added strictures on Gibbon’s account of Christianity. (ancestry.co.uk 12 Jul. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 12 Jul. 2022; CCEd 12 Jul. 2022; Bower March and F. A. Crisp, Alumni Carthusiani [1913], 80; GM Feb. 1796, 170; Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, 9 [1815], 581, and Illustrations 4 [1822], 350) AA