Valpy, Edward (1788-1832)

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Adm. sizar (age 17) at TRINITY, July 4, 1781. Later, a 'Ten-year man'. [4th] s. of Richard, of [St John's], Jersey (and Catherine, dau. of John Chevalier). [B. 1764, at Reading.] School, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. ' Matric. Lent, 1810; B.D. (Stat. Eliz.), 1810. Hon. M.A., King's College, Aberdeen, 1809. For many years assisted his brother, Richard (for whom see D.N.B.), Head Master of Reading School. Head Master of Norwich Grammar School, 1810-29, where in his first two years he raised the numbers from 8 to 300. R. of Thwaite, near Norwich, 1819-32. V. of South Walsham, Norfolk, 1819-32. V. of Swardeston, 1819-22. Married Anne, dau. of Thomas Western, of Great Abington, Cambs., and widow of the Rev. Chaloner Byng Baldock (1768), V. of Milton Abbey, Dorset. Author, Elegantiae Latinae or Rules and Exercises illustrative of Elegant Latin Style; The Greek Testament with English Notes. Died Apr. 15, 1832, at Southtown, Yarmouth. M.I. at Norwich Grammar School. A street in Norwich is named after him. Father of Edward J. W. (1818). (Burke, Family Records; D.N.B.; C. J. Fordyce.)

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