Author: Wasey, Clement John
Biography:
WASEY, Clement John (1769-1811: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 26 Oct. 1769 and baptised on 16 Nov. at St. Anne’s Soho, one of at least seven children of William John Spearman Wasey (1733-1817), Lt. Col. in the Royal Horse Guards Blue, and his wife Elizabeth Honoria Spearman (1742-1824), who had married in 1758. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, (matric. 1788, BA 1792, MA 1795) and then entered the church. He was Rector of South Shoebury, Essex, from 1793 to 1811 and held other curacies. He died on 22 May 1811 and was buried on 28 May at St. Marylebone, London. He left a small estate to his brother the Rev. George Wasey (1773-1838), Fellow of All Souls from 1795 to 1812; his parents; and the niece of his brother William George (1761-1785) who had died in India. He never married. Corsica(1795) celebrates the Genius of Corsica, the independence leader Pasquale Paoli, and the short-lived capture of the Island in the Revolutionary War by the British. Anna Barbauld (q.v.) had earlier examined the theme of Corsican Genius and Liberty in "Corsica," Poems (1773) 1-12. (ancestry.co.uk 1 Oct. 2021; CCEd 1 Oct. 2021; Oxford Journal 21 Feb. 1795, 7 Aug. 1824; Oxford University and City Herald 8 June 1811; GM June 1811, 603; Morning Post 14 Mar. 1817) AA