Author: Soame, Henry Francis Robert
Biography:
SOAME, Henry Francis Robert (1768-1803: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 16 Oct. 1768, the only child of Rev. Henry Soame of Thurlow Hall, Suffolk, and his wife Susannah Bunbury, eldest daughter of Sir William Bunbury. They had married in London in 1765. He was educated at Bury St. Edmunds' grammar school and proceeded to Trinity College Cambridge in 1787 (BA 1792). He also entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1787. He then served in the Bengal Army and was acting lieutenant in 1798 and confirmed lieutenant in the 62nd Regiment of Foot on 31 Dec. 1800 before transferring to the 22nd Light Dragoons both of which regiments were stationed in India. He died, unmarried, on 21 (Selden) or 26 (Cotton) Apr. 1803 at Madras and was buried at St. Mary’s Cemetery there, although newspaper reports of Dec. 1803 record his death as having happened in May. His poetry was edited in 1833 by his cousin Henry Edward Bunbury, who also reprinted it in hisThe Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer (1838). There may have been a 2nd edn. of the Epistle before the 3rd of 1799, but no extant copy has been located. (ancestry.co.uk 18 Jan. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 18 Jan. 2022; Copsey 1: 448; Morning Chronicle 7 Dec. 1803; C. H. Selden, List of Burials at Madras (in St. Mary’s Cemetery) 1801-1850 [1904], 158; J. J. Cotton, List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Madras [1905; 2 vols. Madras 1946] 1: 51; Hodson) AA
Other Names:
- H. F. R. Soame