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In VENN
Adm. pens. at QUEENS', July 4, 1775. Of Bucks. [Eldest s. of Thomas (and Anne). Bapt. Sept. 17, 1755. School, Eton.] ' Matric. Michs. 1775; Scholar; LL.B. 1783. Ord. deacon (London; Litt. dim. from Lincoln) Feb. 28, 1779; priest, Dec. 21, 1779. R. of St Paul's Cray, Kent, 1782-1836. F.L.S. Married, 1777, Mary, dau. of William Sturges, of Datchet, and of Bradford, Yorks. Died Aug. 8, 1836. (Eton Coll. Reg.; Clerical Guide; V. Hodson; Sir E. Brydges, II. 168.)
Mem Ins at St Paul's Cray Church:
55. An altar tomb. On top. Mary Anne, wife of the Rev. John Simons rector of this parish who died 11.6.1800 in her 48th year. Also of Daniel Houghton son of the Rev. John and the above Mary Anne Simons, Lieutenant in the Madras Cavalry in the Honourable East India Company's service who died 8 September 1832 aged 24. Also Isabella second wife of the Rev. John Simons rector of this parish who died 22.11.1831 aged 65. Also the Rev. John Simons, LL.B., born at Eton, Berks., September 2 1735 died 8 August 1836. For more than 57 years rector of this parish. (Exordium)
Fielding (1910) notes that his age was disputed, being given by an executor as 81, as 80 in the burial register, and on the coffin plate as 83.