To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

John Duncombe (writer)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Duncombe (29 September 1729 – 19 January 1786) was an English clergyman and writer.

He studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow.[1] He contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine under the pseudonym Crito, was a well-known poet, and wrote in 1754 a celebration of British women poets, The Feminead. He was married to the poet Susanna Duncombe (née Highmore).

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    623
    8 608
    13 703
  • Steven Duncombe "Imagining No-Place: The Subversive Mechanics of Utopia"
  • 0 to 1 Property = Financially Free (The Secret)
  • How To Buy Your First BTL Investment Property (Start to End)

Transcription

Life

Duncombe was born in London on 29 September 1729, the only child of the author and playwright William Duncombe and his wife Elizabeth née Hughes. He was educated at two schools in Essex, before entering, on 1 July 1745, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1748 and M.A. in 1752. He was later elected a fellow of his college, and in 1753 was ordained at Kew Chapel by John Thomas, the bishop of Peterborough. On the recommendation of Archbishop Thomas Herring, he was appointed to the curacy of Sundridge in Kent.[2]

Duncombe subsequently became assistant-preacher at St Anne's Church, Soho. He was in succession chaplain to Samuel Squire, bishop of St David's, and to John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork. In 1757 Archbishop Herring, a friend, presented him to the united livings of St Andrew and St Mary Bredan, in Canterbury. He was later made one of the Six Preachers in the cathedral; and in 1773 obtained from Archbishop Frederick Cornwallis the living of Herne, near Canterbury. The archbishop also appointed him master of St John's Hospital, Canterbury, and gave him a chaplaincy, which enabled him to hold his two livings.[2]

Duncombe died at Canterbury on 19 January 1786 and was buried there.[2]

Personal life

In 1761 Duncombe married Susanna Highmore, a childhood friend, and a poet and artist in her own right. She and an only daughter survived him.[2]

Works

Among Duncombe's many poems, the best known were:

He wrote numerous occasional pieces, such as On a Lady sending the Author a Ribbon for his Watch.[2][3]

As an antiquarian, he wrote:

  • Historical Description of Canterbury Cathedral, 1772
  • A translation and abridgment of John Battely's Antiquities of Richborough and Reculver 1774
  • History and Antiquities of Reculver and Herne, and of the Three Archiepiscopal Hospitals at and near Canterbury, contributed to John Nichols's Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, vols 1 and 4 (1780).[2]

He edited:

  • Letters from Italy of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, 1773–74
  • Letters by several Eminent Persons deceased, including the Correspondence of J. Hughes, Esq., 1773
  • Letters from the late Archbishop Herring to William Duncombe, Esq., deceased, 1777
  • Select Works of the Emperor Julian, 1784[2]

He also published several sermons.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Duncombe, John (DNCM745J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Duncombe, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. ^ For a full list see Gentleman's Magazine, June 1786, pp. 451–2, and Biographia Britannica ed. Andrew Kippis, iv. 511.

External links

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain"Duncombe, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

This page was last edited on 1 April 2024, at 04:47
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.