Author: Smalbroke, Samuel
Biography:
SMALBROKE, Samuel (1720-1803: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised at Lugwardine, Herefordshire, on 9 June 1720, the sixth of nine children of Rev. Richard Smalbroke (1672-1749), afterwards Bishop of Lichfield, and his wife Catherine Brookes (1685-1765), who had married in 1710. He was educated at Christ Church College Oxford (matric. 1735, BA 1740, MA 1742, BD and DD 1731) and ordained deacon and priest in the Church of England in 1744. He was perpetual curate at Gnosall, Staffordshire (1744-59) and Rector at Wem, Shropshire (1751-1804). He also held an array of prebendary appointments at Lichfield cathedral. He died, unmarried, on 27 July 1803 and was buried at Wem but with a memorial in Lichfield cathedral which refers to his “great literary attainments.” However, An Ode, listed here, is his only known work. His will was administered by his elder brother, Richard Smalbroke (1716-1805), Chancellor of Lichfield and Coventry, for the benefit of a niece. (ancestry.co.uk 22 Nov. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 22 Nov. 2022; CCEd 22 Nov. 2022; Gloucester Journal 8 Aug. 1803; Simms, 407-8; John Chappel Woodhouse, A Short Account of Lichfield Cathedral [1811], 98) AA
Other Names:
- S. Smalbroke