Sumner, Humphrey (1771-1814)

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Venn: Adm. (age 18) at KING'S, a scholar from Eton, Sept. 3, 1762. [S. of the Rev. John (1723), sometime Head Master of Eton (and Sarah). B. at Eton. Bapt. there, Sept. 15, 1743.] ' Matric. Michs. 1762; B.A. 1767; M.A. 1770; D.D. 1783. Fellow, 1765-80; Provost, 1797-1814. Vice-Chancellor, 1798-9 and 1802-3. Assistant Master at Eton, 1767-90. R. of Dunton??Waylett, Essex, 1779-98. R. of Copdock, and V. of Washbrook, Suffolk, 1785. Preb. of Salisbury, 1782-1814. When in November 1798, addresses were presented by the University and the Corporation congratulating the King on the battle of the Nile, 'it unfortunately happened that several of our deputation were not particularly well calculated to make a good figure in a procession. The Vice-Chancellor was a martyr to the gout, and so extremely deaf that he never knew whether he was speaking in a high or low tone. D? [Philip] Douglas had but one eye and was a perfect skeleton. The Registrary [George Borlase] was afflicted with black jaundice; and [John] Broderip, of King's, was just recovering from yellow jaundice, Another of the deputation was a cripple.' Married, May 28, 1790, Anne, dau. of Dr Bostock, Canon of Windsor. Died Mar. 23, 1814, at Cambridge; buried in the College Chapel. Brother of Robert (1767). (Eton Coll. Reg.; G. Mag., 1814, I. 417 and 703; Gunning, Reminiscences, II. 104.)

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