Naylor, Christopher (1761-1816)

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Adm. sizar (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 26, 1756. S. of –, farrier, of Yorks. B. at Grinton, near Richmond. School, Canterbury (Mr Beauvoir). ' Matric. Lent, 1758; B.A. 1761; M.A. 1771. Ord. deacon (Salisbury, Litt. dim. from Oxford) Sept. 20, 1761; priest (London) Feb. 27, 1763. R. of Llanaber, Merioneth, 1772-7. C. of Burnsall, Yorks., 1778-9. Sometime tutor to Lord Arden and to the Rt Hon. Spencer Perceval. R. of Roxby with Risby, Lincs., 1779-1816. R. of Scremby, 1788-1816. One of the Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, 1807. Living at Turnham Green in 1768. R. of (the Mediety of) Linton, Yorks., 1777-80. Second Master at King's School, Canterbury, [p.517] 1780-82; Head Master, 1782-1816. Married, Dec. 20, 1763, Mary Bramble. St John's Coll. Adm. gives extracts from a MS. book left to St Augustine's College, Canterbury, by the Rev. Canon George Gilbert: ‘The Rev. C. Naylor was a dignified looking man, but with much severity of aspect and disposition.... The rod was his great dependence on all boys but those in the first class. He was a good scholar and apt at versification.’ Died Apr. 11, 1816, aged 73; buried in Canterbury Cathedral cloisters. M.I. Father of Christopher B. (1789) and of George (1786). (St John's Coll. Adm., 647; P. E. Towell; G. Mag., 1816, I. 381.)

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