Parkinson, Richard (1822-1833)

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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Dec. 28, 1815. Of Lancashire. [S. of John, of Blindhurst, Lancs. B. Sept. 17, 1797, at Woodgates, Admarsh, near Lancaster. Schools, Hawkshead and Sedbergh.] ' Matric. Michs. 1816; Scholar, 1819; B.A. 1820; M.A. 1824; Seatonian prize, 1830; B.D. 1838; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1852. Hulsean Lecturer, 1837-8. Master of Lea School, near Preston, 1820, for a short time. Edited the Preston Sentinel (a Conservative newspaper) during its one year's existence (1821), and was a frequent contributor to its successor, the Preston Pilot. Ord. deacon (Chester) Dec. 22, 1822; priest, Dec. 21, 1823; C. of St Michael's-on-Wyre, Lancs., 1823. Theological lecturer or tutor at St Bees College, Cumberland, from 1826 to 1846. Canon of Manchester, 1830. P.C. of Whitworth, Lancs., 1830-41. Fellow of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, 1833-46. Principal of St Bees College and incumbent of St Bees, 1846-58. Under him the College attained a considerable celebrity. Partly rebuilt the old Conventual Abbey Church of St Bees. F.S.A., 1847. One of the founders of the Chetham Society, and its Vice-President from the commencement in 1843. Edited for that Society: The Life of Adam Martindale; The Autobiography of Henry Newcome; The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom. Author, Sermons; The Old Church Clock, etc. Married, 1831, Catherine, dau. of Thomas Hartley, of Gillfoot, Egremont, Cumberland. Died Jan. 28, 1858, at St Bees. Father of Richard H. (1856). (Sedbergh Sch. Reg., which gives date of birth as Sept. 17, 1798; Boase, II. 1355; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1858, I. 335 and 556-8; D.N.B.; C. R. Hudleston.)

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