Ormerod, Richard (1779-1816)

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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Dec. 7, 1779. S. of – [farmer], of Lancs. [B. 1752, at Burnley.] Migrated to Christ's, Oct. 16, 1780. ' Matric. Michs. 1780; B.A. 1784; M.A. 1787. College Reader in Hebrew, and Rhetorick Lecturer, 1787. Ord. deacon (Chester) Jan. 2, 1779; priest, Jan. 6, 1779; P.C. of Ingleton Fells, Yorks., 1779. C. of Maidstone, Kent. Chaplain to the Bishop of London, 1787, being nicknamed ‘the Queen's Bishop's Pawn’ by his tutor, J. B. Seale, who had hoped for the post. V. of Harston, Cambs., 1783-8. V. of Kelvedon, Essex, 1788-95. Preb. of St Paul's, 1789-92. R. of Great Birch, 1791-5. V. of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, 1795-1816. Married, and had issue (a son, Thomas Holden, at New College, Oxford, 1814). Author, Remarks on Priestley's Disquisition; Sermon. Died May 24, 1816, at Kensington. At his funeral ‘every shop in the parish was shut and every parishioner whose means would allow it appeared in mourning.’ (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 402; Peile, II. 312; J. D. G. Scott, Story of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, which gives ‘Harlton,’ as his Cambs. living; Gunning, I 20; G. Mag., 1816, I. 568.)

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