Author: WALLER, Bryan
Biography:
WALLER, Bryan (1765-1842: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 1 June 1765 and baptised 30 June at St. Mary’s, Lancaster, the eldest son of Richard Waller (1733-1814) and his wife Eleanor Atkinson (1742-1817), who had married at Beetham, Westmorland in 1764. He went to Lancaster Grammar School and proceeded to Trinity College Cambridge (matric. 1784, Scholar 1787, BA 1788, MA 1791). He was ordained deacon (1793) and priest (1795). He was vicar of St. James, Burton in Kendal, Westmorland (1806-1842). He married Jane Clarke (1802-1873) on 13 Dec. 1834 at Burton. They had two sons. He died at the vicarage house after a few weeks’ illness, on 17 Aug. 1842, aged 78. His widow, Jane, went to live in Lancaster with her two sons and later with her son, Richard, who farmed in Beetham. Queens’ College Cambridge holds rare copies of An Epistle to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1791) and A Panegyrick to the British Constitution (1793). Poems on Several Occasions (1796), which he acknowledged was a rather old-fashioned collection mostly of elegies, epistles, inscriptions and epitaphs, permeated by anti-Jacobin sentiments, was also dedicated to Burke “whose name (even in flagitious days) is fast immortalizing.” (ancestry.co.uk 22 Dec. 2022; CCEd 22 Dec. 2022; Westmorland Gazette 20 Dec. 1834; Cambridge Chronicle 27 Aug. 1842; GM Dec. 1842, 669) AA