Author: Tournay, Thomas
Biography:
TOURNAY, Thomas (1728-95: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 12 Mar. 1728 at Ashford, Kent, the youngest of four children of William Tournay and his wife Catherine Harvey who had married in 1722. The Tournay family had long been established in Hythe and Ashford as minor gentry, with various members or the family holding positions in public life, including mayor and town clerk. He entered Hertford College, Oxford (matric. 1747) but migrated to Lincoln College (BA 1751). He went into the Church of England and was Vicar of Hougham near Dover (1762-95) and Curate then Rector of St. James the Apostle, Dover (1762-95). He married Elizabeth Worger (1734-98) on 25 Sept. 1760 at Ashford. They had one son, Rev.William Tournay (1762-1833), who was later Warden of Wadham, Oxford. Thomas Tournay died on 4 Mar. 1795, aged 67, and was buried on 12 Mar. at St. James. The deceased relatives who are elegised in The Cave of Death (1776) are probably his mother Katherine (1697-1776), and a niece, Mary, the daughter of Robert Tournay (1728-88), an attorney at Hythe. They were buried at St Peter and St. Paul, Saltwood, in Feb. and Mar. 1776. As Rev. T. Tournay, he had earlier published Ambition. An Epistle to Paoli (1769). (ancestry.co.uk 16 Jul. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 16 Jul. 2022; CCEd 16 Jul. 2022; Kentish Gazette 6 Mar. 1795) AA