Fenwicke, George Owsley (1806-1834)

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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Nov. 9, 1801. Of Leicestershire. [S. of John (1753), R. of Hallaton, Leics. B. May 7, 1783. School, Uppingham.] ' Matric. Michs. 1805; Scholar, 1805; B.A. 1806; M.A. 1809. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) 1806; priest, 1807; C. of Godeby with Rolleston Chapel, Leics. V. of Kempston, Beds., June 4, 1817-33; reinstated there, Sept. 26, 1833; sold the living, 1834. V. of Aston, Warws., 1834-52. R. (and patron) of Blaston St Giles, Leics., 1834-50. Lord of the Manor of Blaston St Giles. R. of Rearsby, 1832-42. A distinguished antiquary. In 1825 inherited the library of his brother, the Rev. Charles, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and V. of Slawston, Leics. and became an enthusiastic and successful bookcollector. At the time of his death he had a library of 10,000 volumes, chiefly topographical and liturgical. Married, 1813, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Robert Walker, of Stockerston Hall, Leics., and had issue. Died Oct. 11, 1864, at 4, Dowry Square, Clifton. Half-brother of William (1784). ‘He was a perfect gentleman, a High Churchman without any leaven of bigotry, a thorough-going conscientious Conservative, and altogether a noble specimen of the learned minister of God's Word of other days’. The Fenwicke family came originally from Northumberland, where Brinkbourn Priory was their seat. In consequence of a marriage with a dau. of the Hazelrigges they removed into Leics. about 1683. [St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 247; G. Mag., 1865, I. 104-5; J. H. Hill, Church Langton, 280; Foster, Index Eccles.; Al. Oxon.; Clergy List; Crockford: all these authorities differ as to exact dates of incumbencies.)

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