Author: Schoen, George Lethieullier
Biography:
SCHOEN, George Lethieullier (1756-1828: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 4 Oct. 1756 at St. Michael Bassishaw, City of London, the son of John Henry Schoen, a tobacconist, of Newgate Street, and his wife Dorothy Finch, who had married at Mortlake in 1751. His father underwent bankruptcy proceedings in 1771 but must have subsequently restored his finances to enable him to send his son to Merchant Taylor’s school and thence to St. John’s, Oxford (matric. 1775, BCL 1784, DCL 1788, Assessor 1802). He served briefly as Ensign and Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Militia. He was called to the Bar in 1784 and was listed as practising at 3 Elm Court, Middle Temple in 1791. He had also entered the Church and was Vicar at Kirtlington, Oxfordshire (1797-1801), before becoming Rector of Crick, Northamptonshire, from 1801 until his death. He died on 19 Dec. 1828 and was buried at Crick, leaving a small estate to his nieces. His Innovation (1793) was one of a number of poetic responses which supported Burke’s opposition to the French Revolution, “a despotism so capricious and unqualified, that neither the life nor the property of the most virtuous citizen is secure for a single day” (Innovation, [iii]). (ancestry.co.uk 22 Jul. 2012; findmypast.co.uk 22 Jul. 2021; CCEd 22 Jul. 2021; Leicester Herald 31 Dec. 1828; GM Apr. 1829, 378) AA