Author: Stoney, Thomas Umfreville
Biography:
STONEY, Thomas Umfreville (1790-1864: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 19 Jan. 1790 at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, the son of John Stoney (1745-1823), a schoolmaster who was Vicar of the combined parishes of Thorpe, Kirby, and Walton for forty-three years until his death, and his wife Sarah Umfreville (1763-1806), who had married in 1784. He probably went to his father’s school in Thorpe and thence to Jesus College, Cambridge (BA 1813, MA 1816), after which he entered the established church and was Vicar of St. Cuthbert’s, Pateley Bridge, near Ripon, Yorks., for nearly forty years until his death. He never married. In 1851 his sister Jane was living with him (until her death in 1861); thereafter he lived with Louisa Lightfoot, his housekeeper, whom he made executrix of his will which left just under £4000. Apart from his two early poems on life at Cambridge, he produced two minor works in defence of the Church of England. (ancestry.co.uk 27 Jan. 2021; CCEd; Chelmsford Chronicle 17 Dec. 1784; Oxford University and City Herald 11 Dec. 1823; Sheffield Independent 8 Apr. 1864; GM May 1864, 668) AA
Other Names:
- T. U. Stoney