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| WHITE, HENRY KIRKE. Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, Apr. 28, 1804. [Eld. s. of John, butcher (and Mary Neville).] B. [Mar. 21, 1785], at Nottingham. Matric. Easter, 1806. After leaving a small private school was put to work at a stocking-loom in Nottingham. Then obtained work in a lawyer's office, and, encouraged by Southey, was able to pursue poetic studies. Developed a strong Evangelical piety, and came to Cambridge to take Orders through the influence of Charles Simeon. Showed brilliant promise but his health proved unequal to the strain, and he died in College, Oct. 19, 1806. Contemporary and acquaintance of Patrick Brontë. Left in MS. a mass of verse and prose, published later in various editions as Poetical Works and Remains . Buried in All Saints' Churchyard, Cambridge, where a flat stone now marks his grave; when the church was demolished in 1870, his memorial tablet, with a medallion portrait by Chantrey, was transferred to the ante-chapel of St John's College. Brother of John N. (1819) and James (1811). ( Eagle, XXVIII; D.N.B.; Life, by Southey; C. H. Cooper, Memorials of Cambridge, III. 201.) | Henry Kirke WHITE Approx. lifespan: 1785–1806 sizar St John's College adm1804:04:28 Eld. s. of John WHITE butcher (and Mary Neville).] b. 1785:03:21 Nottingham, [ Nottinghamshire ] Matric 1806:04ET: After leaving a small private school was put to work at a stocking-loom Nottingham, [ Nottinghamshire ] Then obtained work in a lawyer's office, and, encouraged by Southey, was able to pursue poetic studies. Developed a strong Evangelical piety, and came to CB, [ Cambridgeshire ] to take Orders through the influence of Charles Simeon. Showed brilliant promise but his health proved unequal to the strain[, and he] Died in College 1806:10:19 bur. All Saints' Churchyard, All Saints', CB, [ Cambridgeshire ] where a flat stone now marks his grave; when the church was demolished in1870 his memorial tablet, with a medallion portrait by Chantrey, was transferred to the ante-chapel of St John's College Left in MS. a mass of verse and prose, published later in various editions as Poetical Works and Remains Contemporary and acquaintance of Patrick Brontë. brother of John N. WHITE (1819) brother of James WHITE (1811) ( Eagle XXVIII; D.N.B.; Life by Southey; C. H. Cooper, Memorials of CB III. 201.) [add:]Photograph of portrait, by Hoppner, at Nottingham, [ Nottinghamshire ] CAS: G.212[:add] |