John Lonsdale

John Lonsdale (17 January 1788 – 19 October 1867) was an English clergyman, who was the third

He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge,^[2] and went on to become Principal of King's College, London in 1838 following the death of Hugh James Rose.

Life

Born on 17 January 1788 at Newmillerdam, near Wakefield, he was the eldest son of John Lonsdale (1737–1800), vicar of Darfield and perpetual curate of Chapelthorpe. His mother's name was Elizabeth Steer. He was educated at Eton under Joseph Goodall, who thought him the best Latin scholar he had ever had. He went in 1806 to Cambridge, and became Fellow of King's in 1809.^[3]

Lonsdale was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1811, but was ordained in the Church of England in October 1815. In the next month he married, and was shortly afterwards appointed chaplain to Archbishop Charles Manners-Sutton and assistant preacher at the Temple Church. In 1822, the archbishop gave him the rectory of Mersham in Kent, which he left in 1827 for a prebendal stall at Lincoln Cathedral.^[3]

With further preferment, Lonsdale passed in 1828 to the precentorship of the

Lonsdale died suddenly at his home in Eccleshall Castle on 19 October 1867 of the rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain. Various memorials included a monument in Lichfield Cathedral.^[3]

Works

Lonsdale prepared for the press The Four Gospels, with Annotations (1849), with William Hale. His last sermon, preached the day before his death, with a few others, and a selection from his Latin verses, were appended to the biography of him by his son-in-law, Lord Grimthorpe.^[3]

Family

Lonsdale married in 1815 Sophia, daughter of John Bolland, who died in 1852, and had issue:

1. James Gylby Lonsdale the academic;
2. John Gylby, canon of Lichfield, whose daughter Sophia Lonsdale was a noted anti-suffragist^[4]
3. Fanny Catherine, married Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe;
4. Sophia, married the Rev. William Bryans;
5. Lucy Maria.^[3]

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Garnett, Richard (1893). "Lonsdale, John". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34. London: Smith, Elder & Co.