A Victorian Curate
|12. Chronological Table of John Hunt’s Life
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- 1 Many of the dates are only approximate or estimated, based mainly on the information given by Hunt (...)
Date1 | Age | Curacy | Event |
1827 | Born in Bridgend, Perth (21 January) | ||
1837 | 10 | Queen Victoria ascended the throne (20 June) | |
1845 | 18 | Eliza Meadows Shepard Thorp (Hunt’s first wife) born in St Ives, Hunts. | |
1847 | 20 | Matriculated at St Andrews University | |
1848 | 21 | Completed Latin 1 and Greek 1 at St Andrews | |
1851 | 24 | Private tutor, later newspaper editor in Preston | |
1852 | 25 | Select Poems: from the German | |
1853 | 26 | The Spiritual songs of Martin Luther, translated by John Hunt | |
1855 | 28 | Ordained deacon | |
1855 | 28 | 1 | Arrived as Curate, Deptford St Andrews, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland [Bulmer] |
1858 | 31 | Margaret Allen Foote (Hunt’s second wife) born in Cupar, Fife | |
1859 | 32 | Left as Curate, Deptford, Sunderland | |
1859 | 32 | 2 | Arrived as Curate, St Philip’s, Arlington Square, Islington [James Sutherland] March* |
1859 | 32 | Applied to St Paul’s, Lisson Grove [Keeling] (July) | |
1859 | 32 | Applied to St Mary’s, Battersea [Jenkins] (July) | |
1859 | 32 | Left as Curate, St Philip’s, Arlington Square September* | |
1859 | 32 | 3 | Arrived as Curate, St John’s, Walham Green [William Garratt] October* |
1859 | 32 | Left Walham Green December* | |
1859 | 32 | Refused to sign Essays and Reviews petition December* | |
1859 | 32 | Applied to the War Office and Indian Army December* | |
1860 | 32 | Applied to Burley on the Hill, Rutland [Jones] (January) | |
1860 | 33 | 4 | Arrived as Curate, Edmonton [Tate] January* |
1860 | 33 | Applied to All Saints’, Norfolk Square, Paddington [Steventon] March/April* | |
1860 | 33 | Applied to St Mary Magdalen, Old Kent Road, Bermondsey [Snape] March/April* | |
1860 | 33 | Left Edmonton March/April* | |
1860 | 33 | Unemployed for three months April–June* | |
1860 | 33 | Applied to Trinity Church, St Giles-in-the-Fields [Samuel Garratt] April–June* | |
1860 | 33 | Unspecified application April–June* | |
1860 | 33 | Applied to St Jude’s, Southwark [Cruse] April–June* | |
1860 | 33 | Unspecified application ‘no salary’ April–June* | |
1860 | 33 | Applied to ‘H. L.’, Christ Church, Chelsea [Robinson] April–June* | |
1860 | 33 | Applied to St George the Martyr’s, Southwark [Allen] April* | |
1860 | 33 | Applied to St James’s, Pentonville [Courtenay] April–June* | |
1860 | 33 | Applied to Stoke Newington [Jackson] April–June* | |
1860 | 33 | 5 | Arrived as Curate, Christ Church, Hoxton [Kelly] September* |
1863 | 36 | Left as Curate, Christ Church, Hoxton September* | |
1863 | 36 | 6 | Arrived as Curate, St Botolph’s, Aldgate [Roberton] (September) |
1864 | 37 | Anatomy scandal at St Botolph’s, Aldgate (November) | |
1864 | 37 | Punch articles (November/December) | |
1864 | 37 | Left as Curate, St Botolph’s, Aldgate (November) | |
1864 | 37 | Applied to an unspecified ‘Evangelical parish’ (November/December) | |
1864 | 37 | 7 | Arrived as temporary Curate, Swallow near Caistor, Lincolnshire (December) |
1865 | 38 | 8 | Arrived as Curate, All Saints’, St Ives, Huntingdonshire [Fosbroke/Goldie] (January) |
1865 | 38 | First Edition of Clergymen Made Scarce | |
1866 | 39 | Yate Fosbroke, Vicar of St Ives, died (6 July) | |
1866 | 39 | Charles Dashwood Goldie inducted as Vicar of St Ives (25 August) | |
1866 | 39 | The Two Sacraments: Two Sermons | |
1866 | 39 | An Essay on Pantheism | |
1866 | 39 | Left as Curate, All Saints’, St Ives (October) | |
1866 | 39 | Period covered by Clergymen Made Scarce ended | |
1866 | 39 | 9 | Arrived as Curate, St Mary’s, Lambeth |
1867 | 40 | Second Edition of Clergymen Made Scarce | |
1870 | 43 | Poems by Robert Wilde with a historical and biographical preface and notes by John Hunt | |
1870 | 43 | Religious Thought in England vol. i | |
1870–72 | 43–45 | First journeys abroad, including the Old Catholic Conference in Cologne, Germany | |
1871 | 44 | Religious Thought in England vol. ii | |
1873 | 46 | Married Eliza Meadows Shepard Thorp at St Mary’s, Lambeth (2 September) | |
1873 | 46 | Contemporary Essays in Theology | |
1873 | 46 | Religious Thought in England vol. iii | |
1874 | 47 | Left as Curate, St Mary’s, Lambeth | |
1876 | 49 | 10 | Arrived as Curate, St Nicholas’s, Sutton |
1877 | 50 | Goldie accused of ritualism at St Ives | |
1878 | 51 | Left as Curate, St Nicholas’s, Sutton | |
1878 | 51 | Arrived as Vicar of Otford, Kent | |
1878 | 51 | Proceeded D.D. at St Andrews | |
1884 | 57 | Pantheism and Christianity (revised edition of An Essay on Pantheism) | |
1886 | 59 | Goldie died at St Ives | |
1890 | 63 | Eliza Hunt died at Otford, aged 44 | |
1899 | 72 | Married Margaret Allen Foote | |
1901 | 74 | Queen Victoria died; Edward VII acceded | |
1905 | 78 | John Martin appointed Curate of Otford until 1907 | |
1907 | 80 | Died (12 April) | |
1908 | Margaret Hunt married John Martin |
Notes
1 Many of the dates are only approximate or estimated, based mainly on the information given by Hunt in Clergymen Made Scarce, which is not always clear. These are indicated by an asterisk. The calculation of Hunt’s age is potentially a year different from that given, since many of the events are recorded in the sources by year only. The names of the incumbents are given in square brackets.
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