- GB-2014-WSA-02020
- Person
- 1681-1737
ALDRICH, CHARLES, son of Edward Aldrich, London, and Hannah Bannister (IGI); nephew of Henry Aldrich (qv); b. 8 Oct 1681 (or 1680 (IGI)); adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1694; Capt. of the School 1698; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1699, matr. 21 Jun 1699, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1699 – void 1713, Tutor 1706-8, Librarian 1710; BA 1703; MA 12 Mar 1705/6; BD 1715; DD 1722; ordained; Rector of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, from 1709 (year of grace as from 4 Nov 1709); Chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales 1737; edited Theophrasti Characteres Ethici, 1707, and The Epistles of Ignatius with Polycarp’s Epistle to the Philippians, 1708; m. summer 1713 a widow (described by Hearne, Collections viii, 75, as “a bad, vexatious, furious wife”); d. 8 Nov 1737, bequeathing his library to the church at Henley. [Presumably Charles Aldrick (sic), who m. 6 Aug 1713 Jane Hobson (IGI)]