Gerard Thomas Noel

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Gerard Thomas Noel

Gerard Thomas Noel (1782–1851) was a

hymn writer.[1]

Life

Born on 2 December 1782, he was second son of

abolitionist.[2][3]

Noel was at school in Langley, Kent. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, entered Lincoln's Inn in 1798, and went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1805 and M.A. in 1808.[2][4]

On taking holy orders Noel held successively the curacy of

Richmond, Surrey.[2][5] He became vicar of Romsey Abbey, Hampshire. He was instituted to Romsey in 1840. He was also appointed in 1834 to an honorary canonry at Winchester Cathedral. At Romsey he restored the abbey church.[2]

Noel died at Romsey on 24 February 1851.

premillennialist", and an opponent of the Catholic Apostolic Church.[6]

Romsey Abbey, today

Works

Noel's published works were:[2]

  • A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship, a compilation which includes compositions of his own, 1810.
  • Arvendel, or Sketches in Italy and Switzerland, 1826.
  • Fifty Sermons for the Use of Families, 1826, 1827.
  • A Brief Inquiry into the Prospects of the Church of Christ, 1828.
  • A Letter to ... Lord Teignmouth, President of the British and Foreign Bible Society, on the Present Character of the Institution, 1831.[7] Noel and his brother Baptist Noel left the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1831, over a denominational issue; but they returned the following year.[8]
  • Fifty Sermons preached at Romsey, 1853, with preface by Samuel Wilberforce, a close friend.

Family

Noel was twice married, first in 1806 to Charlotte Sophia, daughter of Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Baronet, and secondly in 1841 to Susan, daughter of Sir John Kennaway, 1st Baronet.[2][9] There were six daughters of the first marriage:[10][11]

Notes

  1. ^ Josiah Miller (1866). Our Hymns: their authors and origin, etc. p. 298.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Noel, Gerard Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47112. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ "Noel, the Hon. Gerard Thomas (NL801GT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ Miller, Josiah (1869). Singers and songs of the Church, sketches of the hymn-writers. p. 371.
  6. ^ "Summary of Individual, Hon. Rev. Gerard Thomas Noel 2nd Dec 1782 – 24th Feb 1851, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  7. ^ Gerard Thomas Noel (1831). A Letter to ... Lord Teignmouth, President of the British and Foreign Bible Society, on the Present Character of the Institution. J. Hatchard & Son.
  8. ^ William Jones (1834). Memoirs of the Life, Ministry and Writings of the Rev. Rowland Hill. J. Bennett. p. 267.
  9. ^ The Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage, Of Great Britain And Ireland. Whittaker And Company. 1863. p. 694.
  10. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20233. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  11. ^ Burke, Bernard (1891). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry. Vol. I. London: Harrison. p. 112. Retrieved 28 February 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. H. Colburn. 1847. p. 875.
  13. ^ "Drummond, James Money (MNY823JD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  14. ISBN 978-0-8093-1130-9
    .
  15. ^ Thom's Directory of Ireland. 1876. p. 350.
  16. ISBN 978-1-4411-3969-6
    .
  17. ^ "Caroline Maria Noel - Dictionary of Hymnology". Retrieved 28 February 2017.

External links

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Noel, Gerard Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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