Author: Trollope, Arthur William
Biography:
TROLLOPE, Arthur William (1768-1827: ODNB)
He was born on 26 Aug. 1768 in London and baptised on 30 Sept. at St. Margaret Moses, City of London, the youngest of at least seven children of Thomas Trollope, a mercer, and Amelia Page, who had married 30 March 1750 at Oporto, Portugal. His mother died barely a year after his birth and his father died in 1775, the year he entered Christ’s Hospital. Educated as a formidable classicist by James Boyer (1736-1814), Coleridge’s and Lamb’s old master, he proceeded to Pembroke College, Cambridge (matric. 1787, BA 1791, MA 1794, DD 1815). He won various prizes at Cambridge, most notably the Seatonian Prize for English verse with The Destruction of Babylon (1795). Ordained in 1791, he was given the livings of Vicar of Ugley and perpetual curate of Berden in Essex, by Christ’s Hospital. He married Sarah Wales, the daughter of the mathematics master, 25 Aug. 1797, at Christchurch, Newgate Street, City of London. They had at least seven children. He succeeded James Boyer as headmaster of Christ’s Hospital in 1799 and remained in that position until a year before his death, having trained a distinguished array of classical scholars, albeit under the harsh regime he inherited from Boyer. The school gave him the living of Colne Engaine, Essex, in 1814. He died there on 24 May 1827. (ODNB 2 Aug. 2021; CCEd 2 Aug. 2021; ancestry.co.uk 2 Aug. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 2 Aug. 2021; LES 26 May 1827; GM July 1827, 85-7) AA