Author: Simpkinson, John Nassau
Biography:
SIMPKINSON, John Nassau (1817-94: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 1 Jan. 1817 and baptised on 7 Feb. at St. Giles, Holborn, the eldest son and second of six children of Sir John Augustus Francis Simpkinson (1780-1851), QC, FRS, and his wife Mary Griffin (1793-1854), who had married at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, in 1814. He was educated at Westminster, Rugby, and Trinity College Cambridge (matric. 1835, BA 1839, MA 1842). He was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn (1839). He then entered the church and was ordained deacon (1840) and priest (1841). He was Curate of Hurstmonceaux, Sussex (1840-5), Assistant Master at Harrow (1845-55), Rector of Brington, Northants. (1855-68) and Rector of North Creake, Norfolk (1868-94). He married Sarah Dorothea Vaughan (1823-85) on 6 Dec. 1849, at St. Martin’s, Leicester, with the ceremony performed by her brother, Rev. Charles John Vaughan, Rector (and Headmaster of Harrow from 1841). They went on to have at least thirteen children. He died on 17 Apr. 1894 at North Creake, Fakenham, Norfolk, leaving an estate of over £10,000. In addition to his prize-winning poem, The Age of Chivalry (1834), he published The Washingtons. A Tale of a Country Parish in the 17th Century (1860) and several sermons. (ancestry.co.uk 5 Sept. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 5 Sept. 2022; CCEd 5 Sept. 2022; Morning Post 8 Dec. 1849, 22 May 1885; Westminster Gazette 19 Apr. 1894) AA
Other Names:
- I. N. Simpkinson