Author: Varenne, George
Biography:
VARENNE, George (1756-1824: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 19 Dec. 1756 at St. Giles in the Fields, Holborn, London, the son of Ezekiel Varenne, apothecary and surgeon, and his wife Anne Crown, who had married at St. Bride’s, Fleet St., in 1755. He was educated at St. Paul’s and apprenticed to his father in 1771 before proceeding to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1778 (BA 1783, MA 1806, DD 1809). He entered the church in 1782 and was vicar of Westley Waterless, Cambs., and of Elm with Emneth from 1789 to 1824. He married Ann Clipson (1760-1843) on 30 Dec. 1783 at Doddington, Cambridge. They had three children. He died on 24 Oct. 1824 at Plaistow, Essex, and was buried on 1 Nov. at St. Peter and St. Paul, Grays Thurrock. His wife survived him and died at Bath in 1843. His only publication, The Regrets of Alma Mater(1816), is an anti-Catholic plea for the defence of the Protestant Reformation and was almost certainly influenced by the vicissitudes of the Varenne family who were French Protestant and had left France and all their property there after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (ancestry.co.uk 14 Sept. 2021; CCEd 14 Sept. 2021; Bury and Norwich Post 3 Nov. 1824; GM Feb. 1825, 186) AA