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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 8, 1796. [Eldest] s. of George, Esq., of [Usselby House], Lincs. (and Mary, dau. of John Turner, of Caistor). B. at Market Rasen. [Bapt. there, Dec. 10, 1778.] School, Holywell, Hunts. (private, Mr Hutchinson). ' Matric. Michs. 1796; Scholar, 1797; B.A. 1801; M.A. 1805; LL.D. 1813. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) May 31, 1801; priest, Dec. 19, 1802. R. of Benniworth, Lincs., 1802-31. R. of Somersby and Bag Enderby, 1806-31. V. of Great Grimsby, 1815-31. Visited Italy, 1801, and perhaps Russia, 'but his accounts of his travels are full of marvels.' Disinherited, apparently because his father considered him too impractical to found a County family. Married, Aug. 6, 1805, Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. Stephen Fytche (1763), V. of Louth. Died Mar. 16, 1831, aged 52, at Somersby. Father of Alfred (1827) (to whom as a father he was 'the symbol of authority, as a priest the symbol of orthodox faith'), Charles (1827) and the above; brother of Charles (1801). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 508; Foster, Index Eccles.; Burke, P. and B.; N. and Q. (7), II. 201.)
Year | Type | Name as Recorded | Location | Office/Status | Full Record |
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1801 | Appt(Licensing) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Rithwell / | Curate | View |
1801 | Disp-Ord | Tennyson, George Clayton | / | View | |
1801 | Disp-Ord | Tennyson, George Clayton | / | View | |
1801 | Ordi(ordination) | Tennyson, George Clayton | / | deacon | View |
1802 | Ordi(ordination) | Tennyson, George Clayton | / | priest | View |
1802 | Disp-Ord | Tennyson, George Clayton | / | View | |
1802 | Appt(Institution) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Benniworth / | Rector | View |
1802 | Disp-Ord | Tennyson, George Clayton | / | View | |
1806 | Appt(Institution) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Somersby / | Rector | View |
1806 | Appt(Institution) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Bag Enderby / | Rector | View |
1807 | Vac(cession) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Benniworth / | Rector | View |
1807 | Appt(Institution) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Benniworth / | Rector | View |
1814 | Appt(Licensing) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Ashby Puerorum / | Stipendiary Curate | View |
1815 | Disp(Dispensation) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Grimsby St. Mary / | Vicar | View |
1815 | Disp-App | Tennyson, George Clayton | Benniworth / | Rector | View |
1815 | Disp-App | Tennyson, George Clayton | Benniworth / | Rector | View |
1815 | Disp(Dispensation) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Grimsby St. James / | Vicar | View |
1815 | Appt(Institution) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Grimsby St Mary with St James / | Vicar | View |
1831 | Vac(Death) | Tennyson, George C. | Bennyworth / | Rector | View |
1831 | Vac(Death) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Bag Enderby / | Rector | View |
1831 | Vac(Death) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Somersby / | Rector | View |
1831 | Vac(Death) | Tennyson, George Clayton | Grimsby St Mary with St James / | Vicar | View |